Performing transparency, embracing regulations: corporate framing to mitigate environmental conflicts

Kojola, Erik; Lequieu, Amanda McMillan

doi:10.1080/23251042.2020.1790717

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“…While EJ scholars have shown that the EJF has been multivalent in its meanings leading to different uses and conceptions underlying arguments about the link between ecological harm and social inequality, few scholars have considered the processes that might lead to its cooptation and malleability. Some scholars have begun to draw attention to the way that, in the present era in which environmental issues are highly politicized, corporations are seeking to depress EJ questions (Kojola and McMillan Lequieu, 2020), and this should continue to be an important research area.…”

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Water for whom? Desalination and the cooptation of the environmental justice frame in Southern California

O’Neill

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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The environmental justice frame is a key feature of successful grassroots mobilization against the uneven distribution of environmental problems. However, what happens when this discursive framework is questioned, that is, when features of its established definition are made to serve, rather than contest, industry? The article examines this dynamic through an ethnography of a high-volume desalination (potable ocean water) proposal. Findings indicate community groups and non-governmental organizations make normative environmental justice arguments about the high costs of desalination, community disruption, and industrial burden. By contrast, organized labor and public sector actors align with the private sector to promote desalination, using a competing series of arguments about local independence, regional responsibility, and employment. Disentangling these discourses, the author argues that claims in favor of desalination are a part of what this paper calls a cooptation of the environmental justice frame that ultimately facilitates community division in favor of a class bias for a luxury commodity. Interpreting this socio-ecological problem through a political economic lens, this research contributes to discussions about industrial infrastructure conceived within public–private partnership frameworks, calling scholars, activists, and decision-makers to attend to how environmental (in)justice politics can take on surprising meanings amid the expansion of financial capitalism.

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Water for whom? Desalination and the cooptation of the environmental justice frame in Southern California

O’Neill

2022

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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“…There were buses and coaches, people were brought here and paid to come from other areas". These arguments raise important questions about the role of external actors, pointing to attempts by capital to circumvent or exclude meaningful engagement with the community (see Özen and Özen 2011;Kojola and Lequieu 2020). It is important, therefore, to separate the position of the mining company from that of local communities, since there are important tensions between both positions, with very different understandings of extraction in play.…”

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Contesting post-communist economic development: gold extraction, local community, and rural decline in Romania

Rîșteiu

Creţan

O’Brien

2021

Eurasian Geography and Economics

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Plans to open a globally significant gold mine at Roşia Montană, in the Transylvanian region of Romania, have led to decades of controversy and struggle. This paper explores different understandings of extraction amongst advocates for and opponents of the mine over the last two decades. We discuss the shifting roles of capital, the state, civil society organizations, and the local community over time, arguing for the need to distinguish between their different positions on mining. In particular, we contend that the understanding of extraction promoted by the owners of the mine, and by the local community, is fundamentally different in terms of cultural, social, and economic priorities. The local community argue for a traditional type of mining, embedded in local ownership and established labor identities, whereas the neoliberal vision of capital for the Roşia Montană site is that of a globally competitive, technologically advanced form of extraction. In uncovering and developing these hermeneutic differences, the paper reveals that pro-traditional development attitudes among economically marginalized groups are not necessarily attuned to the material global interconnections shaping neoliberal capitalism.

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Prospects for American cobalt: Reactions to mine proposals in Minnesota and Idaho

Malone,

Smith,

Holley

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Energy Research & Social Science

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Performing transparency, embracing regulations: corporate framing to mitigate environmental conflicts

Cited by 9 publications

References 43 publications

Water for whom? Desalination and the cooptation of the environmental justice frame in Southern California

Water for whom? Desalination and the cooptation of the environmental justice frame in Southern California

Contesting post-communist economic development: gold extraction, local community, and rural decline in Romania

Prospects for American cobalt: Reactions to mine proposals in Minnesota and Idaho

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