“Twenty years is yesterday”: Science, multinational mining, and the political ecology of trust in New Caledonia

Horowitz, Leah S.

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2010.02.003

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“…In an example of a multinational mining project in New Caledonia, Horowitz (2010) found that employees joined local protest groups against their own employer, because their trust of the company was influenced by long-term social relationships and group affiliations. According to Horowitz (2010: 623) " [r]ather than emphasizing the advantages of employment for themselves and their families, though, these villagers focused on benefits for the country as a whole.…”

Section: Living and Working With Environmental Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employment, environmental pollution and working class life in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Broto

2013

Journal of Political Ecology

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People's experiences of a polluted space are intimately linked with their relative concerns for quality of life and livelihoods. Thus quality of environment and security of employment are two closely related issues in social conflicts over environmental pollution. Rather than being implicated in a trade-off relationship, environmental quality and job provision are both part of the life of community residents. Bringing together the literature on the political ecology of environmental conflicts and the social constructionist literature on public perceptions of environmental risks, this article argues that the working class and disadvantaged sections of society are often confronted with alliances between the industry, institutions and other stakeholders which may serve to legitimate a particular configuration of things in which the appropriation of some resources by the industry is regarded as legitimate. However, these arrangements are unstable: they are subject to constant renegotiation between the social groups implicated. Thus, how the emergence of concerns about the local environment relates to preoccupations about the state of the local economy is related to a process whereby these relationships are constructed and re-negotiated. These questions are analyzed using a case study of environmental pollution from coal-energy production in the city of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The case shows that both concerns for the environment and unemployment are articulated simultaneously in the context of industrial pollution, together with the redefinition of the socio-economic landscapes of post-industrial Tuzla.Keywords: Environmental pollution, employment, working-class life, social constructionism, Bosnia and Herzegovina

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Section: Living and Working With Environmental Pollutionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Employment, environmental pollution and working class life in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Broto

2013

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…The focus of this body of work has been on the politics of extraction (Perreault 2013;Bebbington et al 2008); questions of appropriation (Watts 2016); scarcity and security (Cordell and White 2015); hazards (Cutter, Boruff and Shirley 2003); expertise (Horowitz 2010;Birkenholtz 2008); commodification and marketization (Hurley and Ari 2011); and their materiality (Bakker and Bridge 2006).…”

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confidence: 99%

Commentary: STS of the Underground

Birkenholtz

2018

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“…We examine this complex interplay between extractive development, indigenous land use, and deindustrialization through the lens of a ''micropolitical ecology'' (Horowitz, 2010(Horowitz, , 2011 of land use change. The literature on the political ecology of extractive development focuses on resource conflicts and environmental impacts on indigenous peoples' traditional territories (Bebbington et al, 2008;Keeling and Sandlos, 2009;Bebbington, 2012).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%