She is the author of Fighting for Breath: Living Morally and Dying of Cancer in Rural China and editor of a special collection titled Dying for Development: Pollution, Illness and the Limits of Citizens’ Agency in China. Her current research focuses on rural-urban coalitions against incineration, the development of citizen science and experiences of urbanization and land loss. She is director of the Leverhulme Trust Project, “Circuits of e-waste and value: Making e-waste subjects in China and Japan.”