Disputes over Coal Mining and Gas Drilling in an Australian Country Town

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ID2641630
AuthorsJonathan Marshall (0000-0002-3914-7697, University of Technology Sydney, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume15
Issue1
Pages106-125
Publication date2023-03-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCosmopolitan Civil Societies An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1837-5391 • E-ISSN: 1837-5391
PublisherUniversity of Technology, Sydney (UTS) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5130/ccs.v15.i1.8425
OpenAlexW4362475828
LanguageEN
References cited13

This paper explores the repatterning of civil society, the social technologies of persuasion and information, and the role of socio-political contexts in Narrabri (an Australian country town, in Western New South Wales), and its surrounding region between 2018 and 2020. In Narrabri the consequences of Carbon Oligarchy are observed, as the oligarchy promoted new gas fields and expansions of a coal mine in the region. This expansion is justified by supposedly offering a solution to Narrabri's apparent economic, agricultural and population decline problems, but for many local people, it worsens those problems. Conflict has been generated as a result, and the town has suffered painful fractures making the problems seem harder to solve because of the resulting disunity. The paper explores how the contest to justify the extraction also reduces the legitimacy of that extraction

CONTEST · Economics · Economy · Helpfulness · Legitimacy · Oligarchy · Persuasion · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Population · Sociology · Law · Mining and Resource Management

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