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- Fracking the Neighborhood: Reluctant Activists and Natural Gas Drilling
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- 2015
- Published by: The MIT Press
- Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
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What happens when natural gas drilling moves into an urban area: how communities in North Texas responded to the environmental and health threats of fracking.
Table of Contents
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- Acknowledgments
- pp. xiii-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-24
- 1 Oil and Gas Development
- pp. 25-38
- 3 Activists’ Concerns about Health
- pp. 49-76
- 4 A Lack of Competent Guardians
- pp. 77-108
- 5 Reluctant Activists
- pp. 109-132
- 6 Epistemic Privilege
- pp. 133-156
- 7 Performative Environmentalism
- pp. 157-170
- 8 (In)Visibility in the Gas Field
- pp. 171-178
- References
- pp. 179-188
- Series List
- pp. 193-196
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262329798
Related ISBN(s)
9780262029766
MARC Record
OCLC
927590629
Pages
224
Launched on MUSE
2015-11-11
Language
English
Open Access
No
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