The 'Authoritarian Turn' in Environmental Governance? Examining the (Re)politicisation of Shale Gas Fracking in the U.K.

本研究将探讨在环境治理的“威权转向”的可能性。通过跨学科和定性研究，它将批判性地分析导致英国恢复页岩气压裂的政治和规划过程的话语。此外，还将对有关人员进行半结构化访谈。它将借鉴英国的三个具体规划决定，以及全国性的辩论作为案例研究，以了解反水力压裂活动家是否能够挑战后政治共识和国家的霸权地位。它将质疑活动家的成功是否迫使国家采取更专制的行动，并审查国家是否利用政府对规划系统进行修改，以保持政治话语的完整性。它将研究水力压裂公司的作用和更广泛的治理，以及形成反水力压裂运动的不同政治理解和观点。

This research will investigate the possibility of an 'Authoritarian Turn' in environmental governance. Through a cross-disciplinary and qualitative study, it will critically analyse the discourse of the political and planning processes which have led to the resumption of shale gas fracking in the U.K. This will be further supplemented with semi-structured interviews of those involved. It will draw on three specific planning decisions in the U.K, as well as the national debate as its case studies to understand whether anti-fracking activists are able to challenge the post-political consensus and the hegemonic position of the state. It will question whether the success of activists compelled the state to take more authoritarian action, and examine whether the state used the contestation to make changes to the planning system in order to preserve the integrity of the political discourse. It will examine the role of fracking companies and wider governance within this, as well as the different political understandings and perspectives that form the anti-fracking movement.