Placing Scale: An Introduction

Herod, Andrew; Wright, Melissa W.

doi:10.1002/9780470773406.ch

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“…3 We refer to actors 'shifting' scales, rather than 'jumping' scales (Smith, 1992) as we wish to emphasise not so much how actors 'relocate' or move between scales of operation, but rather how they (re)produce scale differentially in their socio-political praxis (Herod and Wright, 2002). 4 Equally, scientific knowledge claims may be central to particular scale framings.…”

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“…The literature on the topic has been the focus of multiple reviews (e.g. Herod and Wright, 2002;MacKinnon, 2011;Marston, 2000;Neumann, 2009). In particular, work on the 'politics of scale' has argued for the fluidity of scale and its social production in processes of political struggle between different actors and groups seeking to manipulate and control scale in pursuit of their interests (e.g.…”

Section: The Politics Of Scalementioning

confidence: 99%

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Landfarming: A contested space for the management of waste from oil and gas extraction

Bloomfield

Doolin

2017

Environ Plan A

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The extraction of unconventional hydrocarbons, particularly through hydraulic fracturing ('fracking'), has generated both support and opposition in many countries around the globe. Along with arguments about economic benefits, decarbonisation, transition fuels and groundwater contamination etc., the rapid expansion of this industry presents a pressing problem as regards the disposal of the resultant waste -including drilling and cutting material, oil and gas residues, various chemicals used in the process, salts and produced water. One putative solution -'landfarming' -is a disposal process that involves spreading oil and gas waste on to land and mixing it with topsoil to allow bioremediation of the hydrocarbons. This paper examines the case of landfarming in New Zealand where the practice has proved controversial due to its association with fracking, fears about the contamination of agricultural land and potential danger to milk supplies. Drawing upon Gieryn's notion of cultural cartography and boundary work as well as the literature on the politics of scale it analyses the struggles for epistemic authority regarding the safety of landfarming. The paper concludes that scalar practices were central to the production of knowledge (and ignorance) in these credibility struggles, and that the prevailing cultural cartography of knowledge remained the arbiter and basis for policy. The case has wider implications in terms of the management of waste from unconventional hydrocarbons as well as other environmental issues in which the politics of scale figure in contested knowledge claims.

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Landfarming: A contested space for the management of waste from oil and gas extraction

Bloomfield

Doolin

2017

Environ Plan A

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“…Indeed, Herod and Wright (2002) have already put this in the center of discussion in their editorial book called "Geographies of Power: Placing Scale." Referring to it as the 'scale question,' they pose the question of why certain events, such as September 11, 2001, the bombing of the World Trade Center was considered "global" terrorism, while a bomb attack in an Israeli station, which took place on September 9, was considered a "local" threat.…”

Section: Maru: Challenging the Global/local Binarymentioning

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Maru: An ethnographic approach to revive local communities

Ichikawa

Tamura

2012

Ethnographic Praxis

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“…In other words, scale is implicated in thinking about how places are bounded in space. However, scale has also been heavily critiqued in recent debates in human geography about the nature of the concept and its utility in geographic research (e.g., Herod and Wright 2002;Mamadough et al 2004;McMaster and Sheppard 2004;Marston et al 2005).…”

Section: Defining Place For Spatial Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%