Wylie Sara Ann Wylie

Fractivism (eBook, PDF)

Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds

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Produktbeschreibung

From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together to hold accountable an industry that has managed to evade regulation. Beginning her story in Colorado, Wylie shows how nonprofits, landowners, and community organizers are creating novel digital platforms and databases to track unconventional oil and gas well development and document fracking's environmental and human health impacts. These platforms model alternative approaches for academic and grassroots engagement with the government and the fossil fuel industry. A call to action, Fractivism outlines a way forward for not just the fifteen million Americans who live within a mile of an unconventional oil or gas well, but for the planet as a whole.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822372981
• Artikelnr.: 54784952

Autorenporträt

Sara Ann Wylie is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Sciences at Northeastern University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface  ix
Acknowledgments  xiii
Introduction. An STS Analysis of Natural Gas Development in the United
States  1
1. Securing the Natural Gas Boom: Oilfield Service Companies and Hydraulic
Fracturing's Regulatory Exemptions  19
2. Methods for Following Chemicals: Seeing a Disruptive System and Forming
a Disruptive Science  41
3. HEIRship: TEDX and Collective Inheritance  64
4. Stimulating Debate: Fracking, HEIRship, and TEDX's Generative Database 
86
5. Industrial Relations and an Introduction to STS in Practice  115
6. ExtrAct: A Case Study in Methods for STS in Practice  137
7. Landman Report Card: Developing Web Tools for Socially Contentious
Issues  165
8. From LRC to WellWatch: Designing Infrastructure for Participatory and
Recursive Publics  191
9. WellWatch: Reflections on Designing Digital Media for Multisited
Para-ethnography of Industrial Systems  219
10. The Fossil-Fuel Connection (with coauthor Len Albright)  247
Conclusion. Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds: A Call for Industrial
Embodiment  279
Notes  305
References  333
Index  383