Wenjia Zhou
Om
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 in rendering milk. I set out to study the becoming of milk in China with multi-sited ethnography.
Forskning
Publikasjoner
2025
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2025)
Holding together industrial time: Coordinated temporalities on a dairy farm in China.
Time & Society
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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
Masteroppgave
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Zhou, Wenjia.
(2025)
Holding together industrial time: Coordinated temporalities on a dairy farm in China.
Time & Society
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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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
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Studentoppgave eller avhandling
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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
Masteroppgave
Formidling
2025
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KonferanseforedragKorsnes, 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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Foredrag
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ForedragZhou, Wenjia. (2024) Tasting milk, tasting modernity?The naughty cow and the heartless dzomo. AAS-in-Asia Conference
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KonferanseforedragZhou, 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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Foredrag