Sacred Land or National Sacrifice Zone: The Role of Values in the Yucca Mountain Participation Process

Endres, Danielle

doi:10.1080/17524032.2012.688060

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“…Intergenerational and institutional shifts in ecocultural interests and perspect ives threaten the continuity, sustainability, and regenerativity of agro forestry systems in the Gedeo Zone, and similar shifts are at play in different settings around the world. For example, the different representations of spaces as sacred, home, and ritual by indigenous communities in the US and India, and conversely the designation of the same spaces as nuclear waste zone and tourist centers by federal governments (Endres, 2012;Ormsby, 2013) similarly illustrate ways human regenerative or destructive practices are shaped by ontological orientations (Ingold, 2000). Attending to these overwhelmingly uni-directional global shifts from mutualism to dualism is imperative to all crisis focused disciplines as our very continued existence as a species interwoven with others of this planet depends on retaining and regenerating restorative ways of being, relating, and dwelling.…”

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“…For example, competing ontological discourses in the US frame Yucca Mountain as sacred space by First Nations people and as national sacrifice zone for a nuclear waste depository by the US federal government (Endres, 2012). Similarly, discourses in India frame forests in East and West Khasi Hills as sacred groves by followers of traditional beliefs and as dwelling spaces of demonic spirits by Christians (Ormsby, 2013).…”

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“Tree Is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia

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This study investigates ecocultural discourses and practices among the Gedeo in southern Ethiopia within the contexts of globalizing commodification of nature, successive governmental extractivist and conservationist discourses, and increasingly influential colonial present religious systems. Our analysis illustrates ways in which indigenous Gedeo understandings of reciprocal ecological coexistence are rooted in cultural knowledge, values, and customs. However, competing forms of knowledge introduced in the form of governance, commerce, conservation, and religion have resulted in an in-process shift from traditionally, spiritually maintained mutualist human-environment relations to dualist commodified relations, particularly among youth, and dualist expert-reliant conservationist relations emanating from governmental bodies. By examining a traditional meaning system during an explicit process of erasure, the study points to ways local meanings of, and narratives about, ecocultural interactions are produced and communicated within wider contexts of power, and illustrates tensions among traditional, governmental, capitalist, conservationist, and religious environmental ontologies in everyday and institutional practice.

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“…The global protest rapidly grew through the Web, with the proliferation of dedicated websites, blogs, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram pages. This controversy between science and sacred land echoes similar cases, like the one illustrated by Endres (2012) regarding the Yucca Mountain and the incommensurability of values between American Indians and the federal government.…”

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Framing of issues across actors: exploring competing discourses in digital arenas

Ravazzani

Maier

2017

JCOM

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To show how the strategic selection of discursive and interactive strategies generates specific framings of an issue to advocate opposite positions, embodying a struggle of power between parties with their own agendas. Design/methodology/approach: Drawing on literature within framing, digital issue arenas and critical discourse, this study is based upon detailed explorations of qualitative hypermodal data retrieved from two websites, Protect Mauna Kea and Maunakea and TMT, which frame from alternative perspectives the internationally renowned Thirty Meter Telescope's construction on Mauna Kea Mountain in Hawaii. Findings: On each website, frame articulation attempts to connect the event to specific concerns, values and beliefs in order to construct alternative versions of reality which can possibly fit with those of supporters. Simultaneously, this is reinforced by frame amplification concretised in selected discursive and interactive strategies that highlight or downplay the issue from particular perspectives. Originality/value: The study offers a deep insight into the complexity and dynamic nature of framing, in particular into how framing can vary and compete across actors. It also responds to "the need for critical awareness of discourse in contemporary society" (Fairclough, 2010, p. 554) by revealing how the power positions of "challengers and powerholders" (Steinberg, 1998, p. 846) are discursively reproduced and reinforced through distinctive discursive and interactive strategies. Finally, this study adopts a critical approach to hypermodal discourse analysis, employed in digital arenas where both organisations and activists are seen as frame strategists.

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“…Nuclear issues function at the crossroads of environmentalism and energy production. This should force decision makers to grapple with the technical consequences of adoption, emotional appeals of risk, and the abstract cultural values necessary to reach consensus for moving forward (Blue Ribbon Commission, 2012;Endres, 2012). Understanding how communities want control in both process and outcomes becomes necessary if policymakers hope to transcend the common outcome of a policy decision followed by a litigious response.…”

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“…Policy making in the domain of nuclear power and waste storage has tended toward technical and expert decisions, sometimes leading to strong public backlash (Blue Ribbon Commission, 2012) and the marginalization of affected communities like Native American tribes (Endres, 2009b(Endres, , 2012. Nuclear communication scholarship has examined the many deliberative shortcomings of decision-making processes on nuclear facility siting, which often feature limited opportunities for public involvement and deep divisions between citizens and policymakers (Hamilton, 2007;Kinsella et al, 2015).…”

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Compensatory Control Theory and Public Opinion on Nuclear Policy: Developing an Experimental Measure in an Applied Environmental Context

Anderson

Reedy

2019

Front. Commun.

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In this study, we develop a novel measure of compensatory control to better understand how Compensatory Control Theory (CCT) impacts perceptions of government involvement in an environmental issue: the storage of spent nuclear fuel. Using a national survey, this study examines public opinion on nuclear waste storage, its risks, and potential forms of oversight, by creating four proxy measures of compensatory control. Those measures are used in a regression analysis to understand levels of participation and intervention in the siting of nuclear waste storage facilities. Results indicate mixed support for the measures and a clear connection to policy choices.

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Sacred Land or National Sacrifice Zone: The Role of Values in the Yucca Mountain Participation Process

Cited by 74 publications

References 35 publications

“Tree Is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia

“Tree Is Life”: The Rising of Dualism and the Declining of Mutualism among the Gedeo of Southern Ethiopia

Framing of issues across actors: exploring competing discourses in digital arenas

Compensatory Control Theory and Public Opinion on Nuclear Policy: Developing an Experimental Measure in an Applied Environmental Context

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