Gullion, Jessica Smartt.

Fracking the neighborhood : reluctant activists and natural gas drilling / Jessica Smartt Gullion. - xiv, 191 p. ; 24 cm. - Urban and industrial environments .

Introduction

1. Oil and gas development

2. A brief overview of natural gas drilling in Texas

3. Activists' concerns about health

4. A lack of competent guardians

5. Reluctant activists

6. Epistemic privilege

7. Performative environmentalism

8. (In) Visibility in the gas field

Includes bibliographical references : p. 179-187 . _ Index : p. 189 - 191

9780262029766 (hardcover : alk. paper)

2015011499


Gas wells
Urban pollution
Environmentalism.
Urban ecology (Sociology)

622.3381 / GUL.