{"product_id":"toxic-and-intoxicating-oil-discovery-resistance-and-justice-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-9781978805033","title":"Toxic and Intoxicating Oil: Discovery,","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWhen oil and gas exploration was expanding across Aotearoa New Zealand, Patricia Widener was there interviewing affected residents and environmental and climate activists, and attending community meetings and anti-drilling rallies. Exploration was occurring on an unprecedented scale when oil disasters dwelled in recent memory, socioecological worries were high, campaigns for climate action were becoming global, and transitioning toward a low carbon society seemed possible. Yet unlike other communities who have experienced either an oil spill, or hydraulic fracturing, or offshore exploration, or climate fears, or disputes over unresolved Indigenous claims, New Zealanders were facing each one almost simultaneously. Collectively, these grievances created the foundation for an organized civil society to construct and then magnify a comprehensive critical oil narrative--in dialogue, practice, and aspiration. Community advocates and socioecological activists mobilized for their health and well-being, for their neighborhoods and beaches, for Planet Earth and Planet Ocean, and for terrestrial and aquatic species and ecosystems. They rallied against toxic, climate-altering pollution; the extraction of fossil fuels; a myriad of historic and contemporary inequities; and for local, just, and sustainable communities, ecologies, economies, and\/or energy sources. In this allied ethnography, quotes are used extensively to convey the tenor of some of the country’s most passionate and committed people. By analyzing the intersections of a social movement and the political economy of oil, Widener reveals a nuanced story of oil resistance and promotion at a time when many anti-drilling activists believed themselves to be on the front lines of the industry’s inevitable decline.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The care that Widener takes in her research is outstanding– she manages to convey a strong sense of the real nature of ethnographic and case study research: unpredictable, problematic, and exciting.\" -- Sherry Cable * author of Sustainable Failures: Environmental Policy and Democracy in a Petro-dependent World *\u003cbr\u003e\"A gripping analysis of the motivations of those who protested against the surge in oil and gas exploration in Aotearoa New Zealand’s oceans and lands in the 2010s. Drawing from her own experiences in the field, Widener immerses the reader in the physical and emotional realities of protest action, and shows how the interplay of culture, identity, politics, and environmental concerns gave rise to a multi-faceted resistance to an expansionist oil and gas program.\" -- Janet Stephenson * Centre for Sustainability, University of Otago *\u003cbr\u003e\"Unlike others who have experienced an oil spill, or hydraulic fracturing, or offshore oil and gas exploration, or climate fears, or disputes over unresolved Indigenous claims, New Zealanders were facing each one almost simultaneously. Collectively, these grievances mobilized civil society to construct and then to magnify a comprehensive critical oil narrative – in dialogue, local practice, and national aspiration. In this allied ethnography, quotes are used extensively to convey the tenor of some of the country’s most passionate and committed people, including many community advocates and anti-drilling activists who believed themselves to be on the front lines of the oil industry’s promotions and inevitable decline.\" * ASA Environmental Newsletter *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTable of Contents\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgements\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1: Which Way Aotearoa New Zealand?\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKia Ora\u003c\/i\u003e: Welcome to the Bottom of the World\u003cbr\u003e Becoming another Oil Story\u003cbr\u003e A Social Analysis of Oil Advocacy \u0026amp; Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2: An Allied Ethnography\u003cbr\u003e Critical Place\u003cbr\u003e Ethical Comparisons\u003cbr\u003e Surveillance\u003cbr\u003e Banking Time\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3: Dominant \u0026amp; Critical Oil Narratives\u003cbr\u003e Three Flows of Oil\u003cbr\u003e New Zealand’s O\u0026amp;G History\u003cbr\u003e Dominant Oil Paradigm\u003cbr\u003e Critical Oil Paradigm\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4: Oil at the Bottom of the World\u003cbr\u003e Cultural Capture \u0026amp; Conflict\u003cbr\u003e Regulatory Capture \u0026amp; Toxic Alliances\u003cbr\u003e Accommodating Extraction: Then \u0026amp; Now\u003cbr\u003e Preserving Cultural or Capital Taonga?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5: License to Criticize: From Disasters to Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Routinization of Violence\u003cbr\u003e Oil Promises, Human Losses\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRena: \u003c\/i\u003eAn Oil \u0026amp; Cargo Spill\u003cbr\u003e “A Little Government Waits”\u003cbr\u003e Sweat Equity, 8000-Strong\u003cbr\u003e Distinctly Māori\u003cbr\u003e National Resistance: Now-or-never Focusing Events\u003cbr\u003e Illusions of Recovery \u0026amp; Safety\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6: Marine Justice: Defending the Seas, Claiming the Coastline\u003cbr\u003e Coastal \u0026amp; Saltwater Sociology\u003cbr\u003e A Harbinger: Punching beyond the Shoreline\u003cbr\u003e Māori vs Petrobras\u003cbr\u003e The “Dodgy Bullshit” of Anadarko\u003cbr\u003e Greenpeace: An Ideal Type of Resistance\u003cbr\u003e Kaikoura: Kaitiaki \u0026amp; Whale-watching\u003cbr\u003e Otago’s Natural Gas \u0026amp; Divided Alliances\u003cbr\u003e Marine Justice: Whose Ocean? Our Ocean?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7: Mobilizing the Middle: Ka Nui! “No Mining, No Drilling, No Fracking, Enough!”\u003cbr\u003e Unconventional Technologies, Controversial Impacts\u003cbr\u003e Rousing the Middle\u003cbr\u003e “Their Truth:” Global Flow of Citizen Knowledge\u003cbr\u003e From Taranaki, with Intent\u003cbr\u003e Problematizing Taranaki\u003cbr\u003e Enabling a Sacrifice\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8: Tainting a Clean, Green Image\u003cbr\u003e Pure Products, Green Jobs\u003cbr\u003e Generational Pride, Ecocultural Consciousness\u003cbr\u003e Realism or a “Green Mirage”?\u003cbr\u003e Greenies Silenced by Association\u003cbr\u003e Hypocrite Drivers\u003cbr\u003e “Feeling a Bit Under Siege”\u003cbr\u003e Aotearoa Justice\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 9: Oil: Catalyst for Reviving Climate Activism\u003cbr\u003e Inverse Accounting\u003cbr\u003e “The Failure of the World”\u003cbr\u003e Re-energizing the Frontlines\u003cbr\u003e “Bubbling Away Underneath”\u003cbr\u003e Bind of a Spill\u003cbr\u003e Struggle to Localize Impacts\u003cbr\u003e Intergenerational Worry\u003cbr\u003e Chasing Global Justice\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 10: Disrupting Oil for Transformative Justice\u003cbr\u003e Applying Critical Environmental Justice\u003cbr\u003e Advancing Just Transitions\u003cbr\u003e About the Author\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003cbr\u003e  ","brand":"Rutgers University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49415231504727,"sku":"9781978805033","price":999.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781978805033.jpg?v=1730526342","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/toxic-and-intoxicating-oil-discovery-resistance-and-justice-in-aotearoa-new-zealand-9781978805033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}