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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Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking in the United States and how scientists, nonprofits, landowners, and everyday people are coming together to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable through the creation of digital platforms and databases that document fracking's devastating environmental and human health impacts.
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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
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"Wylie makes an exciting and timely scholarly contribution that is relevant well beyond the scope of those concerned with the anthropology of energy. This book is useful to social scientists to inform research and teaching on topics spanning science and technology studies, energy policy, sustainability,environmental health, digital humanities, and applied and design anthropology. The relevance of this work also extends beyond academia, and would be of great value not only to gas patch communities that are still struggling to demonstrate the links between chemical exposure and illness, but to community leaders and activists that are engaged in a growing array of citizen science initiatives."  
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“Sara Ann Wylie tells both a sobering story about industry practice and government negligence and an inspiring story of how gas patch residents, artists, civil servants, NGO activists, and health, environmental, and social scientists have responded to fracking. The political implications of this impressive and important book will be far-reaching.”
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780822369028
Publisert
2018-02-26
Utgiver
Vendor
Duke University Press
Vekt
590 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet

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Biographical note

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