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Divergent memories and visions of the future in conflicts over mining development
In: Journal of political ecology: JPE ; case studies in history and society, Band 27, Heft 1
ISSN: 1073-0451
Conflicts over extractive development often center around predicting future profits and economic growth, and estimating industrial pollution. How these projections are understood and seen as legitimate and trustworthy depends on social actors' environmental imaginaries and timescapes. Thus, I examine the temporal and cultural dynamics of natural resource politics, particularly how affective connections to the past and future mobilize support and opposition to new mining. I use the case of proposed copper mines in the rural Minnesota Iron Range region to explore the different environmental imaginaries and timescapes that mining opponents and proponents use to understand the potential socio-environmental impacts, and to legitimate their positions. Proponents, including long-time and working class Iron Range residents and mining corporations, view the region as an industrial landscape built by mining and hope new proposals will renew the past to create a prosperous future. Meanwhile, environmental groups who oppose mining view the region through an environmental imaginary based on outdoor recreation, and draw on collective memories of family and youth trips to understand new extractive projects as a rupture to their vision of the future. I show that resource extraction is understood through temporalities that differ across intersections of class and region, and that emotional meanings of the past and visions of the future animate contemporary political action.Keywords: Resource extraction, mining, environmental imaginaries, timescapes, collective memory, environmental politics, emotions
Divergent memories and visions of the future in conflicts over mining development
Conflicts over extractive development often center around predicting future profits and economic growth, and estimating industrial pollution. How these projections are understood and seen as legitimate and trustworthy depends on social actors' environmental imaginaries and timescapes. Thus, I examine the temporal and cultural dynamics of natural resource politics, particularly how affective connections to the past and future mobilize support and opposition to new mining. I use the case of proposed copper mines in the rural Minnesota Iron Range region to explore the different environmental imaginaries and timescapes that mining opponents and proponents use to understand the potential socio-environmental impacts, and to legitimate their positions. Proponents, including long-time and working class Iron Range residents and mining corporations, view the region as an industrial landscape built by mining and hope new proposals will renew the past to create a prosperous future. Meanwhile, environmental groups who oppose mining view the region through an environmental imaginary based on outdoor recreation, and draw on collective memories of family and youth trips to understand new extractive projects as a rupture to their vision of the future. I show that resource extraction is understood through temporalities that differ across intersections of class and region, and that emotional meanings of the past and visions of the future animate contemporary political action.Keywords: Resource extraction, mining, environmental imaginaries, timescapes, collective memory, environmental politics, emotions
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Indigeneity, gender and class in decision-making about risks from resource extraction
In: Environmental sociology, Band 5, Heft 2, S. 130-148
ISSN: 2325-1042
(Re)constructing the Pipeline: Workers, Environmentalists and Ideology in Media Coverage of the Keystone XL Pipeline
In: Critical sociology, Band 43, Heft 6, S. 893-917
ISSN: 1569-1632
Environmental protection is presumed to damper economic growth and media accounts of resource extraction often portray trade-offs between jobs and the environment. However, there is limited evidence that environmental protection universally costs jobs and heavily polluting industries provide few jobs in comparison to environmental impacts. Therefore, how has media discourse contributed to the taken-for-granted division between the economy and the environment? This paper uses the Keystone XL pipeline controversy as a case of the symbolical conflict between supporters of growth and conservation to explore the role of ideology and power in media discourse. I use frame analysis of newspaper articles to explore the representations of labor and the environment and how hegemonic ideology legitimizes resource extraction. My analysis reveals binary framing that constructed the pipeline as a political controversy over the trade-off between the environment and the economy, which made conflict between workers and environmentalists sensible, and silenced alternatives.
Political ecologies of time and temporality in resource extraction
In: Journal of political ecology: JPE ; case studies in history and society, Band 27, Heft 1
ISSN: 1073-0451
This article introduces a Special Section on time and temporality in natural resource extraction. The Special Section illuminates the importance of both resource temporalities and temporal strategies around resource extraction, including nostalgia and identity, political strategies to delay projects, and contested attempts at predicting and managing the future. In addressing these themes, contributors highlight divergent spatio-temporalities and memories of extractive landscapes, local people's anticipation of future effects from mining, and governmental and corporate practices to speed up project implementation. We suggest that various temporal aspects – such as history, memory, velocity, delay, and epistemologies of time – play a central role in how struggles and controversies over extractive development manifest in particular places. We also offer additional avenues for research on contested understandings of time and temporality in political ecology.Keywords: natural resources, extractive industry, temporality, political ecology
Political ecologies of time and temporality in resource extraction
This article introduces a Special Section on time and temporality in natural resource extraction. The Special Section illuminates the importance of both resource temporalities and temporal strategies around resource extraction, including nostalgia and identity, political strategies to delay projects, and contested attempts at predicting and managing the future. In addressing these themes, contributors highlight divergent spatio-temporalities and memories of extractive landscapes, local people's anticipation of future effects from mining, and governmental and corporate practices to speed up project implementation. We suggest that various temporal aspects – such as history, memory, velocity, delay, and epistemologies of time – play a central role in how struggles and controversies over extractive development manifest in particular places. We also offer additional avenues for research on contested understandings of time and temporality in political ecology.Keywords: natural resources, extractive industry, temporality, political ecology
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Empire of Timber: Labor Unions and the Pacific Northwest Forests, by Erik Loomis
In: Society and natural resources, Band 31, Heft 3, S. 389-391
ISSN: 1521-0723
No more lock-step retirement: Boomers' shifting meanings of work and retirement
In: Journal of aging studies, Band 36, S. 59-70
ISSN: 1879-193X
New directions in environmental justice studies: examining the state and violence
In: Environmental politics, Band 30, Heft 1-2, S. 100-118
ISSN: 1743-8934
Performing transparency, embracing regulations: corporate framing to mitigate environmental conflicts
In: Environmental sociology, Band 6, Heft 4, S. 364-374
ISSN: 2325-1042
Power & temporality in pursuing transformative planetary justice
In: Environmental politics, S. 1-20
ISSN: 1743-8934
Environmental Concern of Labor Union Members in the United States
In: The sociological quarterly: TSQ, Band 55, Heft 1, S. 72-91
ISSN: 1533-8525
The necessity of a transformational approach to just transition: defence worker views on decarbonisation, diversification and sustainability
In: Environmental politics, Band 33, Heft 2, S. 281-301
ISSN: 1743-8934
Men and Women Expecting to Work Longer: Do Changing Work Conditions Matter?
In: Work, aging and retirement, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 321-344
ISSN: 2054-4650