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 of milk in China with multi-sited ethnography.
Research
Publications
2025
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2025)
Holding together industrial time: Coordinated temporalities on a dairy farm in China.
Time & Society
Academic article
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.
Universitetet i Oslo
Master thesis
Journal publications
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2025)
Holding together industrial time: Coordinated temporalities on a dairy farm in China.
Time & Society
Academic article
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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
Student thesis or dissertation
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2018)
Sex is beautiful, but we don’t recommend it: tensions in sex education in present-day China.
Universitetet i Oslo
Master thesis
Outreach
2025
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Conference lectureKorsnes, Marius; Xu, Dongming; Wang, Yu; Chen, Shuhua; Zhou, Wenjia; Brekke, Tarjei. (2025) The embeddedness of animal foods in China’s agri-food system: Connecting production and consumption. SCORAI Conference Lund
2024
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Lecture
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LectureZhou, Wenjia. (2024) Tasting milk, tasting modernity?The naughty cow and the heartless dzomo. AAS-in-Asia Conference
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Conference lectureZhou, Wenjia. (2024) From Drinking Milk to Eating Milk: Reflections on Fieldwork at a Small-Scale Dairy Farm in a Village in Hebei Province. International Symposium for STS Young Scholars
2023
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Lecture