A framework for a critical physical geography of ‘sacrifice zones’: Physical landscapes and discursive spaces of frac sand mining in western Wisconsin

Holifield, Ryan; Day, Mick

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2017.08.004

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“…In Tirúa we find one of the last non-contaminated lakes in Chile, the Lleu Lleu lake. The Finally, it is important to highlight that Chile has 8 territories known as "Sacrifice Zones" (Zonas de Sacrificio) (Holifield &Day, 2017;Bolados & Sánchez, 2017;Maino et Al., 2019), affected by the concentration of multiple and synergic impacts from different companies and productive sectors (mainly energy and mining) present in those territories. There, small scale productive activities, like fishing and agriculture, are practically destroyed, and tourism barely survives.…”

Section: Unlivable Territoriesmentioning

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“…Even though this promise has been broken on several occasions, this rupture is not an unexpected outcome, but rather a required condition of capitalism and the modern-colonial form of power that has shaped our region (Quijano, 2011). The intense exploitation leaves a legacy of pollution, drought and destruction that generates "unlivable" lives (Butler, 1993, p.3), uninhabitable territories and "sacrifice zones" (Holifield & Day, 2017;Bolados & Sánchez, 2017;Maino et Al., 2019).…”

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Affects, activisms and resistances facing the impacts of Capitaloceno: an embodied learning experience in Chile

Aedo¹,

Cabaña²

2020

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The planetary transformations of Capitalocene affect us in multiple and heterogeneous forms. In this context, activisms emerging as embodied, experiential and situated manifestations of affectation. This article is an exploration of the activisms and resistances against impacts that Capitalocene -specifically, the extractivism- has had in Chilean society, from the perspective and experience of our own trajectories as global south academics and activists, committed to the entanglements that emerge constantly in the face of the impacts. Our work refers to the affects and resistances that we as authors have had the chance to experience in spaces of training and companionship of activists who resist in territories affected by the mining, agro-export and energy industry; and those who studied the Diploma in Social Ecology and Political Ecology from the Group of Agroecology and the Environment at the University of Santiago, offered between 2013 and 2017. Based on these experiences, we argue that the "affective turn" offers an indispensable perspective about hegemony, resistances and political changes in the current crisis.

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Section: Unlivable Territoriesmentioning

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Affects, activisms and resistances facing the impacts of Capitaloceno: an embodied learning experience in Chile

Aedo¹,

Cabaña²

2020

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“…It's important as well that we consider the application on its merits rather than what it could become. (Councillor Kevin Ellard, 24 June 2015) Given that the UK is addressing anticipated consequences rather than actual or (problematically) verifiable causes it is even more difficult to establish consensus on evidence (Holifield and Day 2017). Thus the "facts" gave them little support for refusing the application and the councillors retired to take advice on how best to establish grounds for refusal.…”

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Questioning the local: environmental regulation, shale gas extraction, and the politics of scale

Beebeejaun

2019

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The exploration and potential extraction of shale gasbetter known as frackinghas emerged as one of the most contentious dimensions to local environmental politics in the UK. Local residents and environmental activists have raised concerns about health, noise, ground water contamination, seismicity, environmental amenity, and other impacts of the industry on communities. Despite the complexities of shale gas extraction, an emphasis on the local has shaped key dimensions of the debate around the appropriate location for well pads to the relative exclusion of other issues. This paper draws on fieldwork in Lancashire, UK, to reflect on the political construction of scale in order to explore how an emphasis on "the local" can restrict political debate over shale gas to narrow concerns with land-use planning thereby obviating a fuller engagement with wider questions concerning risk, energy policy, and climate change. It is concluded that a more nuanced conception of scale is necessary for understanding how concerns with shale gas are diminished rather than strengthened through the current planning policy and regulatory regime operating in the UK. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…Así, des-re-territorialización es una forma de enmarcar, imaginar, definir y clasificar territorios en los que se presentan actividades en competencia, lo que va a causar conflictos entre dos o más grupos, y donde uno de los grupos siente que la propuesta de su oponente es destructiva (el grupo desterritorializado), mientras el otro se legitima e impone (Holifield & Day, 2017). Esto llevado a un caso más específico como la territorialidad que representa la megaminería, implica que cuando esta actividad ingresa en un determinado territorio, resulta en una disputa que se define por el "carácter antagónico de las territorialidades y territorializaciones comunitarias, por una parte, y las de las grandes empresas mineras y el Estado, por otra" (Murillo & Sacher, 2017, p. 52).…”

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Megaminería, agua y territorio: procesos de des-re-territorialización frente al concesionamiento de zonas de importancia hídrica en la parroquia El Chical, provincia del Carchi, Ecuador

Levy

2019

SIEMBRA

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Este artículo es un esfuerzo por definir y caracterizar las “zonas de importancia hídrica” afectadas por las concesiones mineras dentro del territorio establecido como área mestiza de la parroquia El Chical, en la provincia del Carchi. Frente a la ola de concesionamientos para minería industrial, surgen un sinnúmero de debates e incertidumbres por parte de las poblaciones locales que se encuentran en territorios definidos como mineros por el Estado central. Al estar las áreas concesionadas en conflicto con estas “zonas de importancia hídrica” se genera una competencia por los usos y manejo del territorio que, desde la perspectiva de esta investigación, implica una forma de desterritorializar a la población, por cuanto sus modos de vida y los recursos naturales para mantener los mismos se ven amenazados. Esta amenaza se materializa a través de la presencia, cada vez más visible, de empresas mineras trasnacionales, que van influyendo en las relaciones locales. Este artículo es la primera parte de una investigación más amplia, cuyo objetivo es analizar factores de desterritorialización y reterritorialización, desde los diversos actores, en relación con el recurso agua, sus usos y su conservación; como una respuesta a la imposición de territorios mineros, en la parroquia El Chical. En esta primera parte se realiza una caracterización de la problemática agua y minería; un análisis teórico de los procesos de des-reterritorialización desde el enfoque de la geografía crítica, para finalmente aterrizar con un análisis de la situación actual de concesiones y su solape con zonas de importancia hídrica en el área de estudio.

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A framework for a critical physical geography of ‘sacrifice zones’: Physical landscapes and discursive spaces of frac sand mining in western Wisconsin

Cited by 47 publications

References 29 publications

Affects, activisms and resistances facing the impacts of Capitaloceno: an embodied learning experience in Chile

Affects, activisms and resistances facing the impacts of Capitaloceno: an embodied learning experience in Chile

Questioning the local: environmental regulation, shale gas extraction, and the politics of scale

Megaminería, agua y territorio: procesos de des-re-territorialización frente al concesionamiento de zonas de importancia hídrica en la parroquia El Chical, provincia del Carchi, Ecuador

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