Hijacking the Narrative: The First World Forum on Natural Capital, #natcap13, and Radical Dissent

Matulis, Brett Sylvester; Moyer, Jessica R.

doi:10.1111/anti.12352

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“…Our study also highlights the way urban residents in China have drawn on social media to support environmental protests (Yang 2010). Some political ecologists have similarly drawn on social movement studies to demonstrate the way social media provides new kinds of agency to activists within environmental protests (Matulis and Moyer 2018). This article aims to integrate a rich literature of social protests in China (Lorentzen 2017) with a critical analysis of urban environmental discourse to evaluate the complex problem that truth-claims by state actors and environmental protesters present for political ecology.…”

Section: Social Power In a Post-truth Era Of Environmental Politicsmentioning

confidence: 72%

Engaging truthiness and obfuscation in a political ecology analysis of a protest against the Pengzhou Petroleum Refinery

Schmitt

2019

Journal of Political Ecology

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This article draws from an empirical case study of the use of truthiness and obfuscation during an environmental protest in China, to help highlight the complex issues that political ecology faces in the Post-Truth Era. By drawing on empirical data from social media and local interviews, this article documents rising social tensions associated with air pollution and the recent construction of a petroleum refinery outside of Chengdu. The article notes how historical precedent and the obfuscating of environmental information by government officials provided the conditions that led to residents presenting a selection of facts or even false information to support truth-claims that in turn supported their protest against the refinery. While this tactic of using truthiness to support an environmental protest may have sent the relevant information viral across the internet, the article also documents how the Chinese state in the end was able to de-legitimize the protestors by labeling their behavior as "anti-science." The article draws on this case study to encourage political ecologists to critically evaluate and contextualize the limits of utilizing alternative facts to challenge authoritarian control over the environment.Key words: Post-Truth, environmental protest, social media, China, environmentality, necropolitics

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Section: Social Power In a Post-truth Era Of Environmental Politicsmentioning

confidence: 72%

Engaging truthiness and obfuscation in a political ecology analysis of a protest against the Pengzhou Petroleum Refinery

Schmitt

2019

Journal of Political Ecology

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“…Then there is the idea that new technologies present new methodological opportunities. For example, Von Benzon (2019) drew on online blogs in her home-schooling study to examine what should be considered ‘public’, and Matulis and Moyer (2018) used Twitter archives to study the practical production of ‘counter publics’. Holton and Harmer (2019) thoughtfully discuss how they worked with smart phones, and Garrett and Anderson (2018) argue for a ‘critical drone methodology’ that carefully considers the societal spread of these devices.…”

Section: Arguments For Innovation and Forbidden Failuresmentioning

confidence: 99%

Qualitative methods III: On different ways of describing our work

Hitchings

Latham

2020

Progress in Human Geography

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In two previous reviews, we examined how human geographers currently report on projects involving their preferred qualitative methods – interviews and ethnographic observation. This final review steps back from specific techniques to evaluate some of the broader presentational conventions that typify this work. What can be inferred from where these geographers discuss data collection in their papers? Why do they develop new methods and what do they say about fieldwork failures? How often do they reflect on the provisional status of their findings? And what are the implications of how they define their purpose in working with qualitative material?

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“…Among the 17 SDGs of Agenda 2030 some – specifically, 6,13, 14 and 15 – refer to the safeguarding of environment and natural capital (Comitato Capitale Naturale, 2018). Natural capital is an extension of the economic concept of capital to goods and services provided by natural environment, including geology, soil, air, water and all living organisms (Matulis and Moyer, 2018). Some natural capital resources offer people specific free commodities, called ecosystem services (ES).…”

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Urban planning decisions: an evaluation support model for natural soil surface saving policies and the enhancement of properties in disuse

Morano

Tajani

Anelli

2020

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PurposeThe present research aims to develop and test an evaluation support model for decisions alert soil surface saving to be used in the redevelopment of abandoned and degraded properties through involvement of private developers.Design/methodology/approachAdapting operations research principles to the public–private partnership features that are typical of urban planning issues, the model pursues a complex objective function, that concerns urban parameters to be attributed to properties to be recovered. An elaboration of a Pareto-optimal frontier has defined possible scenarios for different trends of the variables under consideration.FindingsThe efficiency of the model is verified through application to a real case study concerning urban renewal of a property in disuse located in a city in Southern Italy. The outputs confirm the potentialities and flexibility of the proposed model to support urban planning decisions by improving the implementation of conservation policies, in terms of a reduced impact of urban transformation projects on the available natural land surface.Practical implicationsDepending on the objectives of public sector, the model can generate a range of urban parameter combinations to be attributed to the recovered properties to achieve low consumption of natural surfaces, with bargaining between the public and private sectors around these parameters. The model can also be used in the initial phases of the renewal initiative, when it is necessary to define the costs and the revenues involved or to assess alternative solutions capable of reducing impacts on the environment.Originality/valueThe model can be applied to identify the appropriate rewards in a project that can stimulate the private developers to realize further public infrastructures and services than minimum quantities established by the current local urban regulations. In this sense, the model represents an original scientific reference in the current strategies promoted by the European Union for achievement of a “no net land take” by 2050, aimed at reducing natural surface occupied by buildings and roads.

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Hijacking the Narrative: The First World Forum on Natural Capital, #natcap13, and Radical Dissent

Cited by 6 publications

References 41 publications

Engaging truthiness and obfuscation in a political ecology analysis of a protest against the Pengzhou Petroleum Refinery

Engaging truthiness and obfuscation in a political ecology analysis of a protest against the Pengzhou Petroleum Refinery

Qualitative methods III: On different ways of describing our work

Urban planning decisions: an evaluation support model for natural soil surface saving policies and the enhancement of properties in disuse

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