Scaling up site disputes
Strategies to Redefine 'Local' in the Fight Against Fracking
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4328951 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kate J Neville (0000-0003-2302-3769, University of Toronto, corresponding author), Erika Weinthal (0000-0003-4117-6048, Duke University) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 569-592 |
| Publication date | 2016-07-03 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environmental Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0964-4016 • E-ISSN: 1743-8934 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09644016.2016.1154124 |
| OpenAlex | W2295613278 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 24 |
| References cited | 29 |
Plans to replace an aging diesel backup energy plant with liquid natural gas (LNG) generators in Whitehorse, Yukon, resulted in a public outcry, involving community meetings, massive petitions, and demonstrations. Are these civil society protests just a case of a local siting dispute – a response to an unwanted industrial site in an urban neighborhood? Here, it is argued that siting debates are not the driver of these campaigns, but instead are harnessed by activists to advance a broader environmental movement. By linking the LNG project to more distant extraction, involving hydraulic fracturing (‘fracking’), movement leaders portray the entire territory as part of the ‘local’ for Whitehorse residents. Movement leaders rely upon two key mechanisms: claiming insider status, and identifying visible symbols. This case reveals the strategic use by environmental movements of local concerns to recruit support for broader campaigns, and the value of local, place-based activism for broader environmental movements
China · Civil society · Environmental movement · Hydraulic fracturing · Insider · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Ecocriticism and Environmental Literature · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Public Administration · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Not a ‘Petro Metro’
Fractured alliance
Blocking pipelines, unsettling environmental justice
Stop the Frack! Exploring the Media’s Portrayal of the Social Representation of an Anti-Fracking Protest at the Baltic Sea
Evaluating the effects of living with contamination from the lens of trauma
Chipping away at democracy
Just environmental governance for shale gas? Transitioning towards sustainable local regulation of fracking in Spain
Framing the Energy East pipeline debate in Canada
Opening up the black box
Linking wastes and climate change
Green Passion Afloat
Indigenous-led grassroots engagements with oil pipelines in the U.S. and Russia
Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism
Resource-making controversies
Rethinking the nature of justice
Politicizing environmental governance – A case study of heterogeneous alliances and juridical struggles around the Ojnare Forest, Sweden
A framework of NGO inside and outside strategies in the commercial determinants of health
Cooler coalitions for a warmer planet
Counting Carbon
New subjects in the politics of energy transition? Reactivating the northern German oil and gas infrastructure
Emotion, reflexivity and social change in the era of extreme fossil fuels
Adaptation policy and community discourse
Free market ideology and deregulation in Colorado's oil fields
Can public engagement democratize environmental policymaking in a resource-dependent state? Comparative case studies from Alberta, Canada
Been-Heres Versus Come-Heres Negotiating Conflicting Community Identities
Using the Language of Nimby
Planners' Alchemy Transforming Nimby to Yimby
Dynamics of Contention
Site Fights
Putting Social Movements in their Place
Explaining “Nimby” Objections to a Power Line
Nimby and the Civic Good
The Contentious Political Economy of Biofuels
Challenging Global Environmental Governance
Invalid theory impedes our understanding
Sense of Place and Sense of Planet
Partisan Probing and Democratic Decisionmaking Rethinking the Nimby Syndrome
The bomb in my backyard, the serpent in my house
Acting globally, thinking locally? Prospects for a global environmental movement
Environmental movements and campaigns against waste infrastructure in the United States
From local conflict to national issue
Reconceiving Environmental Justice
From Nimby to Niaby
Large-scale land deals from the inside out
Introduction
| Unique citing works | 24 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,4 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2025 (10) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 22 |