Grassroots Activism in the Belly of the Beast: A Relational Account of the Campaign Against Urban Fracking in Texas
Grassroots Activism in the Belly of the Beast: A Relational Account of the Campaign Against Urban Fracking in Texas
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DOI：
10.1093/socpro/spx035
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发表时间：
2019-02-01
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影响因子：
3.2
通讯作者：
Stitt, Mary Ellen
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作者：
Auyero, Javier;Hernandez, Maricarmen;Stitt, Mary Ellen
本文对德克萨斯州丹顿市反对城市水力压裂的社会运动的出现、发展和影响进行了相关描述。它强调了基层激进分子、地方官员和其他利益相关者之间的互动在政治构建对环境风险的共同理解中所发挥的作用。文章借鉴风险认知和社会运动结果方面的学术成果，认为由于活动人士、官员、居民以及石油和天然气行业代表之间的冲突与合作关系，出现了关于水力压裂潜在（负面）影响的观点。这表明，基层、面对面的联合行动在禁止水力压裂运动中发挥了关键作用。地方性集体行动应成为对环境危险共同认识进行社会科学检验的前沿和中心。
This article offers a relational account of the emergence, development, and impact of a social movement against urban fracking in Denton, Texas. It highlights the role played by the interactions between grassroots activism, local officials, and other stakeholders in the political construction of shared understandings of environmental risk. Drawing upon scholarship on risk perceptions and on social movement outcomes, the article argues that as a result of relationships of conflict and cooperation between activists, officials, residents, and oil and gas industry representatives, a field of opinion about the potential (negative) impacts of fracking emerged. It shows that grassroots, face-to-face, joint action played a key role in the campaign to ban fracking. Localized collective action should be at the front and center of social scientific examinations of shared understandings of environmental danger.