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Toxic and Intoxicating Oil - Discovery, Resistance, and Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand (Hardcover)
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Toxic and Intoxicating Oil - Discovery, Resistance, and Justice in Aotearoa New Zealand (Hardcover)
Series: Nature, Society, and Culture
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When oil and gas exploration was expanding across Aotearoa New
Zealand, Patricia Widener was there interviewing affected residents
and environmental and climate activists, and attending community
meetings and anti-drilling rallies. Exploration was occurring on an
unprecedented scale when oil disasters dwelled in recent memory,
socioecological worries were high, campaigns for climate action
were becoming global, and transitioning toward a low carbon society
seemed possible. Yet unlike other communities who have experienced
either an oil spill, or hydraulic fracturing, or offshore
exploration, or climate fears, or disputes over unresolved
Indigenous claims, New Zealanders were facing each one almost
simultaneously. Collectively, these grievances created the
foundation for an organized civil society to construct and then
magnify a comprehensive critical oil narrative--in dialogue,
practice, and aspiration. Community advocates and socioecological
activists mobilized for their health and well-being, for their
neighborhoods and beaches, for Planet Earth and Planet Ocean, and
for terrestrial and aquatic species and ecosystems. They rallied
against toxic, climate-altering pollution; the extraction of fossil
fuels; a myriad of historic and contemporary inequities; and for
local, just, and sustainable communities, ecologies, economies,
and/or energy sources. In this allied ethnography, quotes are used
extensively to convey the tenor of some of the country’s most
passionate and committed people. By analyzing the intersections of
a social movement and the political economy of oil, Widener reveals
a nuanced story of oil resistance and promotion at a time when many
anti-drilling activists believed themselves to be on the front
lines of the industry’s inevitable decline.
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