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Dear ENVIROETHICS Subscribers,
We hope you might find the following new title from Duke University Press of interest:
http://www.combinedacademic.co.uk/fractivism
Fractivism
Corporate Bodies and Chemical Bonds
Sara Ann Wylie
“Sara Ann Wylie tells both a sobering story about industry practice and government negligence and an inspiring story of how gas patch residents, artists, civil servants,
NGO activists, and health, environmental, and social scientists have responded to fracking. The political implications of this impressive and important book will be far-reaching.”– Kim Fortun, author of
Advocacy after Bhopal: Environmentalism, Disaster, New Global Orders
“Operating at the borderlands of anthropology and science studies, Sara Ann Wylie offers a compelling account of the relations between the production of knowledge and
forms of regulatory accountability. She also outlines how alternative modes of scientific practice can yield new and innovative results while giving a rich depiction of the intersection of how forms of participatory democracy enroll the online world. Tackling
a hugely important topic from an original angle, Fractivism could very well make a splash.”– Michael Watts, coeditor of
Subterranean Estates: Life Worlds of Oil and Gas
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.
Sara Ann Wylie is Assistant Professor of Sociology, Anthropology, and Health Sciences at Northeastern University.
Duke University Press | Experimental Futures | February 2018 | 424pp | 35 illustrations
| 9780822369028 | Paperback | £23.99*
20% discount with this code: CSL118FRAC**
*Price subject to change.
**Offer excludes the Americas
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