Activating rural spaces in the pursuit of unconventional energy and justice

Title: Activating rural spaces in the pursuit of unconventional energy and justice
Creator: Sherval, Meg
Relation: Handbook on Space, Place and Law p. 142-155
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4337/9781788977203.00025
Publisher: Edward Elgar
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2021
Description: The global energy landscape is transforming. Debates about energy security and energy scarcity have become increasingly important as nations seek to ensure continuity of supply into the future. Recent technological innovations have brought renewed hope to many nations through the development of unconventional oil and gas reserves. Accompanying this, however, has also been an increase in community opposition most notably in Australia, Britain and the United States where concerns about governance and justice have been raised. Within activist communities, a gendered response may be seen to be occurring where women are primarily becoming the face of local resistance. Drawing on in-depth interviews with fourteen female activists throughout Britain, this chapter explores the personal and political motivations for opposition to shale gas in rural spaces and briefly examines how governments as agents of the law have responded to this phenomenon.
Subject: energy security; activism; shale gas; community opposition
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1436939
Identifier: uon:40180
Identifier: ISBN:9781788977197
Language: eng

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