Wenjia Zhou
About
I'm a doctoral researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. With a background in journalism, gender studies, and anthropology, I am interested in the socio-material entanglements between human and more-than-human beings in the web of life.
Currently, I am working on the ERC project "A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China' (MidWay), where my focus lies on the production and consumption of milk. Instead of regarding milk as natural, self-evident, and singular, I see milk as diverse, the assemblage of cow, fodder, milking activity, and transformative human actions and technologies including but not limited to fortification, transportation, and marketing that emerge in different socio-material contexts, that co-generate the resulting expression as liquid, powder, or emulsion. By seeing milk as an assemblage of actors and processes, I emphasize the entanglement of heterogeneous entities – both human and nonhuman – in rendering milk. I set out to study the becoming (Barad, 2003) of milk in China with multi-sited ethnography.
Education
2018 M.Phil. in Gender Studies, University of Oslo, Norway
2013 M.A. in Gender Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2012 B.A. in Broadcasting and Television Journalism, Fudan University, China
Research
Publications
2023
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2023)
Sex is beautiful, but we don’t recommend it: Desire and pleasure in Chinese sex education.
Bulletin Texte
Academic article
2018
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2018)
Sex is beautiful, but we don’t recommend it: tensions in sex education in present-day China.
University of Oslo
Masters thesis
Journal publications
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2023)
Sex is beautiful, but we don’t recommend it: Desire and pleasure in Chinese sex education.
Bulletin Texte
Academic article
Report
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2018)
Sex is beautiful, but we don’t recommend it: tensions in sex education in present-day China.
University of Oslo
Masters thesis
Outreach
2024
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Popular scientific lectureZhou, Wenjia. (2024) The naughty cow and the heartless dzomo . Nice Community Event 2024-07-17 - 2024-07-17
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LectureZhou, Wenjia. (2024) Tasting milk, tasting modernity?The naughty cow and the heartless dzomo . AAS-in-Asia Conference 2024-07-10 - 2024-07-10
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Academic lectureZhou, Wenjia. (2024) From Drinking Milk to Eating Milk: Reflections on Fieldwork at a Small-Scale Dairy Farm in a Village in Hebei Province. Committee of Science and Technology Studies, The Chinese Soc International Symposium for STS Young Scholars 2024-12-28 - 2024-12-28
2023
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LectureZhou, Wenjia. (2023) The becoming of milk in China. ASIANET/NNC conference 2023: Consuming Asia 2023-06-23 - 2023-06-23