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Call for papers Internal Geographical Union Regional Conference, Quebec City, 6-10 August 2018 Human geographies of unconventional oil and gas extraction Martina A Caretta and Nicholas Stump, West Virginia University, USA Ethnographic research around unconventional oil and gas development is lagging. This session is aimed at gathering scholars working on unconventional oil and gas developments with a qualitative methodological approach. Ethnographic research has the potential to impact every facet of the energy sector, because public consensus and social license to operate are critical for this sector. Public controversy over unconventional oil and gas development has led to regulatory delays and substantial legal and economic uncertainty for industry and landowners alike. Additionally, lack of knowledge around stakeholders' lived everyday experiences of unconventional oil and gas developments allows for predatory behaviors by the industry disregarding health or societal concerns. Territorial conflicts surrounding unconventional natural resource extraction are not just land-based, but revolve around also water. Emerging social science research has attempted to better elicit and evaluate stakeholders' viewpoints and experiences around unconventional oil and gas developments (Malin and DeMaster, 2016; Cotton, 2015; Schafft et al., 2013; Cotton, 2013; Jaquet, 2012; Finewood et al., 2012; Anderson, 2009). This existing social science research, however, suffers from being divorced from an understanding of existing legal frameworks and the potential pathways through which insights from social science may be used to inform and shape policies. We invite local, transnational, comparative, intersectional case studies on unconventional oil and gas extraction focusing on: - Land- and water-based disputes; - Everyday experiences of unconventional natural resource extraction; - The disruption of the hydrosocial cycle due to conventional and unconventional natural resource extraction. - Collectives/activist groups organizing against extractive industries; - Gender analysis of consequences of the extractive industries; - Ethnographic and methodological approaches to the study of unconventional oil and gas extraction Please send abstracts of no more than 250 words by March 8th to Martina Angela Caretta ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) References Cotton, M. (2013). Shale Gas-Community Relations: NIMBY or Not? Integrating Social Factors Into Shale Gas Community Engagements - - Natural Gas & Electricity - Cotton, M. (2015) "Stakeholder perspectives on shale gas fracking: a Q-method study of environmental discourses." Environment and Planning A 47.9 (2015): 1944-1962. Finewood, M. H., & Stroup, L. J. (2012). Fracking and the Neoliberalization of the Hydro-Social Cycle in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale. Journal of Contemporary Water Research & Education, 147(1), 72-79. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1936-704X.2012.03104.x Jacquet, J. B. (2012). Landowner attitudes toward natural gas and wind farm development in northern Pennsylvania. Energy Policy, 50, 677-688. Malin, S. A., & DeMaster, K. T. (2016). A devil's bargain: Rural environmental injustices and hydraulic fracturing on Pennsylvania's farms. Journal of Rural Studies, 47, Part A, 278-290. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrurstud.2015.12.015 Schafft, K. A., Borlu, Y., & Glenna, L. (2013). The relationship between Marcellus Shale gas development in Pennsylvania and local perceptions of risk and opportunity. Rural Sociology, 78(2), 143-166. Dr. Martina Angela Caretta Assistant Professor West Virginia University Department of Geology & Geography Brooks Hall, Office 349 PO Box 6300 Morgantown, WV 26506 Ph + 1 304 293 11 07 Fx + 1 304.293.6522 http://pages.geo.wvu.edu/~mcaretta/