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| DOI | 10.1177/25148486241238663 |
| Re-attaching to coal in a Climate Emergency: The case of the Whitehaven mine | |
| Lewis, Pancho | |
| 发表日期 | 2024 |
| ISSN | 2514-8486 |
| EISSN | 2514-8494 |
| 英文摘要 | This paper draws on the concept of 'attachment' to examine pro-coal sentiment in Whitehaven - an English town at the centre of global political controversy because of a plan to open a coal mine in the area. Drawing on fieldwork data, I show that pro-mine persuasions among some residents are underpinned by a process of 're-attaching' to coal. I argue that the case of the Whitehaven mine is a warning about how fossil fuels might re-emerge as promissory objects in other parts of the world, even when a transition away from fossil fuels has been completed. Paradoxically, the very disorientations and deepening traumas that climate change is causing threaten to spur on the rise of fossil fuel (re-)attachments. The paper also examines how pro-coal discourses linked to wider vested interests are received in a context where coal exists as 'afterlife'. Consequently, local actors construct narratives that legitimise new coal extraction by (re)articulating discourses of delay. My findings are thus a reminder of the need to guard against over-valorising 'the grassroots', arguably a risk in environmental justice scholarship. I conclude by calling for further empirical research on the way attachments to high-carbon objects are (re/de)composed, an urgent task given the need for rapid societal decarbonisation - one which has received very little attention to date. |
| 英文关键词 | Attachment; affect; transitions; mining; environmental politics |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| WOS研究方向 | Environmental Sciences & Ecology ; Geography |
| WOS类目 | Environmental Studies ; Geography |
| WOS记录号 | WOS:001186559900001 |
| 来源期刊 | ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/296678 |
| 作者单位 | Lancaster University; Lancaster University |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Lewis, Pancho. Re-attaching to coal in a Climate Emergency: The case of the Whitehaven mine[J],2024. |
| APA | Lewis, Pancho.(2024).Re-attaching to coal in a Climate Emergency: The case of the Whitehaven mine.ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE. |
| MLA | Lewis, Pancho."Re-attaching to coal in a Climate Emergency: The case of the Whitehaven mine".ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING E-NATURE AND SPACE (2024). |
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