Disputes over Coal Mining and Gas Drilling in an Australian Country Town

Marshall, JP

Disputes over Coal Mining and Gas Drilling in an Australian Country Town

Marshall, JP

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Publisher:: UNIV TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY-UTS EPRESS
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, 2023, 15, (1), pp. 106-125
Issue Date:: 2023-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Marshall, JP
dc.date.accessioned	2023-10-16T00:18:03Z
dc.date.available	2023-10-16T00:18:03Z
dc.date.issued	2023-01-01
dc.identifier.citation	Cosmopolitan Civil Societies, 2023, 15, (1), pp. 106-125
dc.identifier.issn	1837-5391
dc.identifier.issn	1837-5391
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/172673
dc.description.abstract	This paper explores the repatterning of civil society, the social technologies of persuasion and information, and the role of socio-political contexts in Narrabri (an Australian country town, in Western New South Wales), and its surrounding region between 2018 and 2020. In Narrabri the consequences of Carbon Oligarchy are observed, as the oligarchy promoted new gas fields and expansions of a coal mine in the region. This expansion is justified by supposedly offering a solution to Narrabri’s apparent economic, agricultural and population decline problems, but for many local people, it worsens those problems. Conflict has been generated as a result, and the town has suffered painful fractures making the problems seem harder to solve because of the resulting disunity. The paper explores how the contest to justify the extraction also reduces the legitimacy of that extraction.
dc.language	English
dc.publisher	UNIV TECHNOLOGY, SYDNEY-UTS EPRESS
dc.relation.ispartof	Cosmopolitan Civil Societies
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.5130/ccs.v15.i1.8425
dc.rights	info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subject	15 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services, 16 Studies in Human Society
dc.subject.classification	35 Commerce, management, tourism and services
dc.subject.classification	44 Human society
dc.title	Disputes over Coal Mining and Gas Drilling in an Australian Country Town
dc.type	Journal Article
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utslib.for	16 Studies in Human Society
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/e-Press
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences/Public Communication Program
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Abstract:

This paper explores the repatterning of civil society, the social technologies of persuasion and information, and the role of socio-political contexts in Narrabri (an Australian country town, in Western New South Wales), and its surrounding region between 2018 and 2020. In Narrabri the consequences of Carbon Oligarchy are observed, as the oligarchy promoted new gas fields and expansions of a coal mine in the region. This expansion is justified by supposedly offering a solution to Narrabri’s apparent economic, agricultural and population decline problems, but for many local people, it worsens those problems. Conflict has been generated as a result, and the town has suffered painful fractures making the problems seem harder to solve because of the resulting disunity. The paper explores how the contest to justify the extraction also reduces the legitimacy of that extraction.

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