Fractivism : corporate bodies and chemical bonds / Sara Wylie.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wylie, Sara Ann, 1980- author.

Series:

Experimental futures.

Experimental futures

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hydraulic fracturing--Health aspects.

Hydraulic fracturing.

Hydraulic fracturing--Environmental aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages) : illustrations, maps, photographs

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.

Summary:

From flammable tap water and sick livestock to the recent onset of hundreds of earthquakes in Oklahoma, the impact of fracking in the United States is far-reaching and deeply felt. In Fractivism Sara Ann Wylie traces the history of fracking and the ways scientists and everyday people are coming together to hold accountable an industry that has managed to evade regulation. Beginning her story in Colorado, Wylie shows how nonprofits, landowners, and community organizers are creating novel digital platforms and databases to track unconventional oil and gas well development and document fracking's environmental and human health impacts. These platforms model alternative approaches for academic and grassroots engagement with the government and the fossil fuel industry. A call to action, Fractivism outlines a way forward for not just the fifteen million Americans who live within a mile of an unconventional oil or gas well, but for the planet as a whole.

Contents:

An STS analysis of natural gas development in the United States

Securing the natural gas boom: oilfield service companies and hydraulic fracturing's regulatory exemptions

Methods for following chemicals: seeing a disruptive system and forming a disruptive science

HEIRship: TEDX and collective inheritance

Stimulating debate: Fracking, HEIRship, and TEDX's generative database

Industrial relations and an introduction to STS in practice

Extract: A case study in methods for STS in practice

Landman report card: developing web tools for socially contentious issues

From LRC to WellWatch: designing infrastructure for participatory and recursive publics

WellWatch: reflections on designing digital media for multisited para-ethnography

The fossil-fuel connection

Corporate bodies and chemical bonds: a call for industrial embodiment.

Notes:

Other title, changed in ECIP : "Shale Gas"

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822372981

0822372983

OCLC:

1148101133