“Don’t Frack with Our Karoo”: Water, Landscape, and Congregational Song in Kroonvale, South Africa

Living on a Time Bomb: Local Negotiations of Oil Extraction in a Mexican Community

“…She also draws attention to the health risks of fracking and calls for addressing local knowledge and the political discourse fracking is embedded in, while also attending to technologies of quantifi cation and regulation (2013: 211). Fracking confronts participating actors and therefore also the scholars with a particular set of properties that require consideration as to fracking's connection to environmental risk regarding water distribution (e.g., Finewood and Stroup 2012;Jorritsma 2012) and uncertainties of risk measurements due to the novelty of the technique (e.g., Brasier et al 2013;Cartwright 2013;Silva Ontiveros et al 2018). Research on different actors involved in this system of energy production is required for a more comprehensive understanding of this recent topic.…”

Visual discourse coalitions: visualization and discourse formation in controversies over shale gas development

“…However, they communicate a shared visual storyline by using a photograph depicting a water pumping mill, also called a wind pump or steel flowers 13 (see Figure 4(a), https://www.treasurethekaroo.co.za 14 , and http://seasgd.csir.co.za 15 ). This mill symbolizes the identity of the Karoo, and it narrates how locals produce energy to pump up water in this dry area (Jorritsma, 2012;Marais, 2013).…”