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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Which Way Aotearoa New Zealand? -- 2 An Allied Ethnography -- 3 Dominant and Critical Oil Narratives -- 4 Oil at the Bottom of the World -- 5 License to Criticize: From Disasters to Resistance -- 6 Marine Justice: Defending the Seas, Claiming the Coastline -- 7 Mobilizing the Middle Ka Nui! "No Mining, No Drilling, No Fracking, Enough!" -- 8 Tainting a Clean, Green Image -- 9 Reviving Climate Activism -- 10 Disrupting Oil for Transformative Justice -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

This article examines the links between the petroleum and tourism industries by analyzing how an oil disaster, whether actual or perceived, may attract nature‐based tourism interests. To better understand the role of communities, local governments and/or the media in establishing links between the petroleum and tourism industries, this article explores how the construction of an oil pipeline in Ecuador and an oil spill in the Philippines created opportunities for tourism. Each case contributes to our understanding of how an oil disaster supports nature‐based tourism and how both industries supply a resource or an experience to nonlocal consumers, while converging to alter local communities, economies, and ecosystems. Indeed, tourism investments following a disaster may become a sideshow to the disaster that shifts attention from the disaster to participation in new economic opportunities. In addition, tourism may represent ecological alterations, which are more subtle, yet as damaging, as an oil disaster. The proposed model is then applied to two additional cases, the Exxon Valdez oil spill and Hurricane Katrina, to test its use in understanding other postdisaster developments.

Employing the works of Spaargaren and Mol, the intersections of "environmental flows," including both material flows (the extraction, transportation and exportation of oil) as well as non-material flows (community and environmental campaigns), are examined along an oil supply chain. Four communities in Ecuador are studied in order to reveal how a community's spatial and social dimensions influence its response to the construction of an oil pipeline as well as its establishment of advocacy networks. By holding constant the point of contention, these cases reveal that grassroots and professional organizations in communities most integrated in petroleum's commodity chain are least coupled with transnational campaigns. In contrast, environmental groups in areas least experienced in the environmental and health burdens associated with residing near oil facilities establish denser international ties. From these findings, this article calls for the insertion of community deliberation and community monitoring as necessary links in the flow of oil.

Employing the works of Spaargaren and Mol, the intersections of "environmental flows," including both material flows (the extraction, transportation and exportation of oil) as well as non-material flows (community and environmental campaigns), are examined along an oil supply chain. Four communities in Ecuador are studied in order to reveal how a community's spatial and social dimensions influence its response to the construction of an oil pipeline as well as its establishment of advocacy networks. By holding constant the point of contention, these cases reveal that grassroots and professional organizations in communities most integrated in petroleum's commodity chain are least coupled with transnational campaigns. In contrast, environmental groups in areas least experienced in the environmental and health burdens associated with residing near oil facilities establish denser international ties. From these findings, this article calls for the insertion of community deliberation and community monitoring as necessary links in the flow of oil. Adapted from the source document.

Through an examination of four sites of contention in Ecuador, this study explores the impacts of transnational campaigns on domestic organizations and community groups while holding constant the focus of conflict, the construction of an oil pipeline. The international organizations verified local claims, enabled access to international venues such as conferences and investor meetings, and influenced the financing of future large-scale projects. Yet, the transnational campaigns unintentionally emphasized environmental conservation at the expense of local dignity-in-life claims, resonated only with select groups, and potentially undermined domestic networking building. The Northern campaigns emphasized World Bank standards that were arguably weak on environmental protection, especially when compared to the environmental justice demands arising in the oil hubs. Indeed, community participation, environmental health regulation, and economic redistribution may be better achieved through grassroots efforts that target the state, rather than through transnational engagement dependent on international bodies and concerns.

Through an examination of four sites of contention in Ecuador, this study explores the impacts of transnational campaigns on domestic organizations and community groups while holding constant the focus of conflict, the construction of an oil pipeline. The international organizations verified local claims, enabled access to international venues such as conferences and investor meetings, and influenced the financing of future large-scale projects. Yet, the transnational campaigns unintentionally emphasized environmental conservation at the expense of local dignity-in-life claims, resonated only with select groups, and potentially undermined domestic networking building. The Northern campaigns emphasized World Bank standards that were arguably weak on environmental protection, especially when compared to the environmental justice demands arising in the oil hubs. Indeed, community participation, environmental health regulation, and economic redistribution may be better achieved through grassroots efforts that target the state, rather than through transnational engagement dependent on international bodies and concerns. Adapted from the source document.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Energy Matters / Ladd, Anthony E. -- 1. Natural Gas Fracking on Public Lands: The Trickle-down Impacts of Neoliberalism in Ohio's Utica Shale Region -- 2. This (Gas) Land Is Your (Truth) Land? Documentary Films and Cultural Fracturing in Prominent Shale Communities / Vasi, Ion Bogdan -- 3. Disturbing the Dead: Community Concerns over Fracking below a Cemetery in the Utica Shale Region / Price, Carmel E. / Maples, James N. -- 4. Mobilizing against Fracking: Marcellus Shale Protest in Pittsburgh / Staggenborg, Suzanne -- 5. Engines, Sentinels, and Objects: Assessing the Impacts of Unconventional Energy Development on Animals in the Marcellus Shale Region / Whitley, Cameron Thomas -- 6 Motivational Frame Disputes Surrounding Natural Gas Fracking in the Haynesville Shale / Ladd, Anthony E. -- 7. Denial, Disinformation, and Delay: Recreancy and Induced Seismicity in Oklahoma's Shale Plays / Mix, Tamara L. / Raynes, Dakota K. T. -- 8. Contested Colorado: Shifting Regulations and Public Responses to Unconventional Oil Production in the Niobrara Shale Region / Malin, Stephanie A. / Ryder, Stacia S. / Hall, Peter M. -- 9. Citizen Resistance to Oil Production and Acid Fracking in the Sunshine State / Widener, Patricia -- 10. Public Participation and Protest in the Siting of Liquefied Natural Gas Terminals in Oregon / Boudet, Hilary / Gaustad, Brittany / Tran, Trang -- Conclusion: Standing at the Energy Policy Crossroads / Ladd, Anthony E. -- Acknowledgments -- Notes on Contributors -- Index