Research Catalog
Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling
- Title
- Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion.
- Author
- Gullion, Jessica Smartt, 1972-
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2017]
- ©2015
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
1 Item
| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | TD195.G3 G864 2017 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xiv, 191 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- "When natural gas drilling moves into an urban or a suburban neighborhood, a two-hundred-foot-high drill appears on the other side of a back yard fence and diesel trucks clog a quiet two-lane residential street. Children seem to be having more than the usual number of nosebleeds. There are so many local cases of cancer that the elementary school starts a cancer support group. In this book, Jessica Smartt Gullion examines what happens when natural gas extraction by means of hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking," takes place not on wide-open rural land but in a densely populated area with homes, schools, hospitals, parks, and businesses. Gullion focuses on fracking in the Barnett Shale, the natural-gas--rich geological formation under the Dallas--Fort Worth metroplex. She gives voice to the residents -- for the most part educated, middle class, and politically conservative -- who became reluctant anti-drilling activists in response to perceived environmental and health threats posed by fracking"--Page 4 of cover.
- Series Statement
- Urban and industrial environments
- Uniform Title
- Urban and industrial environments
- Subject
- Gas wells > Hydraulic fracturing > Environmental aspects > United States
- Urban pollution > United States
- Environmentalism
- Urban ecology (Sociology)
- Gaz naturel > Puits > Fracturation hydraulique > Aspect de l'environnement > États-Unis
- Pollution urbaine > États-Unis
- Environnementalisme
- Écologie urbaine
- urban environments
- Urban pollution
- United States
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Oil and gas development -- A brief overview of natural gas drilling in Texas -- Activists' concerns about health -- A lack of competent guardians -- Reluctant activists -- Epistemic privilege -- Performative environmentalism -- (In)visibility in the gas field.
- ISBN
- 9780262534628
- 0262534622
- LCCN
- 2015011499
- OCLC
- ocn978679104
- 978679104
- SCSB-8895269
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library