Open this publication in new window or tab >>2018 (English)In: British Journal of Management, ISSN 1045-3172, E-ISSN 1467-8551, Vol. 29, no 2, p. 235-251Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
This paper investigates the political contestation over hydraulic fracturing of shale gas, or ‘fracking’, in the UK. Based on an analysis of four public inquiries, it shows how both proponents and opponents of fracking employed scaling to mobilize interests by connecting (or disconnecting) fracking to spatial and temporal scales. The analysis explains how a fossil fuel hegemony was reproduced by linking local and specific benefits to nationally or globally recognized interests such as employment, energy security and emission reductions. The paper contributes to recent debates on environmental political contestation by showing how scaling enables the linkage of competing interests by alternating between spatial (e.g. local vs. global) and temporal (e.g. short term vs. long term) horizons. The authors argue that scaling allows dominant actors to uphold contradictory positions on climate change, which contributes to explaining the current disastrous political climate impasse.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
John Wiley & Sons, 2018
National Category
Social Sciences
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-1921 (URN)10.1111/1467-8551.12291 (DOI)000430101800003 ()26915 (Local ID)26915 (Archive number)26915 (OAI)
2020-02-272020-02-272024-06-17Bibliographically approved