Library Catalog
Amazon cover image
Image from Amazon.com

Toxic and Intoxicating Oil : Discovery, Resistance, and Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand / Patricia Widener.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Nature, Society, and CulturePublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (270 p.) : 10 b-w imagesContent type:
Media type:
Carrier type:
ISBN:
  • 9781978814110
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 338.2/7280993 23
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources:
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Which Way Aotearoa New Zealand? -- 2 An Allied Ethnography -- 3 Dominant and Critical Oil Narratives -- 4 Oil at the Bottom of the World -- 5 License to Criticize: From Disasters to Resistance -- 6 Marine Justice: Defending the Seas, Claiming the Coastline -- 7 Mobilizing the Middle Ka Nui! “No Mining, No Drilling, No Fracking, Enough!" -- 8 Tainting a Clean, Green Image -- 9 Reviving Climate Activism -- 10 Disrupting Oil for Transformative Justice -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author
Summary: When oil and gas exploration was expanding across Aotearoa New Zealand, Patricia Widener was there interviewing affected residents and environmental and climate activists, and attending community meetings and anti-drilling rallies. Exploration was occurring on an unprecedented scale when oil disasters dwelled in recent memory, socioecological worries were high, campaigns for climate action were becoming global, and transitioning toward a low carbon society seemed possible. Yet unlike other communities who have experienced either an oil spill, or hydraulic fracturing, or offshore exploration, or climate fears, or disputes over unresolved Indigenous claims, New Zealanders were facing each one almost simultaneously. Collectively, these grievances created the foundation for an organized civil society to construct and then magnify a comprehensive critical oil narrative--in dialogue, practice, and aspiration. Community advocates and socioecological activists mobilized for their health and well-being, for their neighborhoods and beaches, for Planet Earth and Planet Ocean, and for terrestrial and aquatic species and ecosystems. They rallied against toxic, climate-altering pollution; the extraction of fossil fuels; a myriad of historic and contemporary inequities; and for local, just, and sustainable communities, ecologies, economies, and/or energy sources. In this allied ethnography, "es are used extensively to convey the tenor of some of the country’s most passionate and committed people. By analyzing the intersections of a social movement and the political economy of oil, Widener reveals a nuanced story of oil resistance and promotion at a time when many anti-drilling activists believed themselves to be on the front lines of the industry’s inevitable decline.
Holdings
Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781978814110

Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 Which Way Aotearoa New Zealand? -- 2 An Allied Ethnography -- 3 Dominant and Critical Oil Narratives -- 4 Oil at the Bottom of the World -- 5 License to Criticize: From Disasters to Resistance -- 6 Marine Justice: Defending the Seas, Claiming the Coastline -- 7 Mobilizing the Middle Ka Nui! “No Mining, No Drilling, No Fracking, Enough!" -- 8 Tainting a Clean, Green Image -- 9 Reviving Climate Activism -- 10 Disrupting Oil for Transformative Justice -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index -- About the Author

restricted access online access with authorization star

http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec

When oil and gas exploration was expanding across Aotearoa New Zealand, Patricia Widener was there interviewing affected residents and environmental and climate activists, and attending community meetings and anti-drilling rallies. Exploration was occurring on an unprecedented scale when oil disasters dwelled in recent memory, socioecological worries were high, campaigns for climate action were becoming global, and transitioning toward a low carbon society seemed possible. Yet unlike other communities who have experienced either an oil spill, or hydraulic fracturing, or offshore exploration, or climate fears, or disputes over unresolved Indigenous claims, New Zealanders were facing each one almost simultaneously. Collectively, these grievances created the foundation for an organized civil society to construct and then magnify a comprehensive critical oil narrative--in dialogue, practice, and aspiration. Community advocates and socioecological activists mobilized for their health and well-being, for their neighborhoods and beaches, for Planet Earth and Planet Ocean, and for terrestrial and aquatic species and ecosystems. They rallied against toxic, climate-altering pollution; the extraction of fossil fuels; a myriad of historic and contemporary inequities; and for local, just, and sustainable communities, ecologies, economies, and/or energy sources. In this allied ethnography, "es are used extensively to convey the tenor of some of the country’s most passionate and committed people. By analyzing the intersections of a social movement and the political economy of oil, Widener reveals a nuanced story of oil resistance and promotion at a time when many anti-drilling activists believed themselves to be on the front lines of the industry’s inevitable decline.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Dez 2022)