Troubling Water
Shale Energy and Waterscape Transformation in a North American Extraction Zone
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7635570 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Anna Willow (0000-0002-3626-7749, corresponding author), Anna J Willow |
| Year | 1969 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 166-178 |
| Publication date | 1969-12-31 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.3138/anth.582.t01 |
| OpenAlex | W2586519592 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
As hydraulic fracturing to facilitate shale energy extraction expands into new regions, how people think about water's multifaceted relationships to their lands and lives is being complicated and confounded. Drawing on in-depth interviews with 31 concerned residents of Ohio (United States), I argue that extraction “troubles” water in ways that extend far beyond empirical documentation of toxic contamination. My account illuminates how physical and conceptual relationships with water are concurrently and recursively transformed. For many Ohioans, formerly positive experiences of emplacement and embodiment are now infused with apprehension and alienation. As water infiltrates and motivates conversations about human health, residents' rights, and contested knowledge, it has become culturally meaningful in newly anxiety-infused and hyper-vigilant ways. At the same time, water has come to fill a prominent political and oppositional position in unconventional extraction debates
Alienation · Apprehension · Documentation · Energy (signal processing) · Environmental ethics · Hydraulic fracturing · Petroleum engineering · Political science · Politics · Sociology · American Environmental and Regional History · Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics · Engineering · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Law · Psychology
| Unique citing works | 5 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,71 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2023 (5) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 5 |