TY - CHAP
T1 - Ethnoscaping Green Resistance
T2 - Heritage and the Fight Against Fracking
AU - Burnett, Scott
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - This chapter explores specific instances where environmentalist resistance to fossil fuel extraction mobilizes definitions of ‘heritage’ connected to colonial histories and ethnocentric visions for the future. Through discourse analysis of Facebook groups of the most successful campaigns to prevent hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa, national ‘ethnoscapes’ that bind activists together are exposed as wrapped up in attempts to secure the nation as a white possession. Pre-enclosure Britain, the Australia of the Eureka Stockade, and white colonial expansion in South Africa are produced as Golden Ages, which must be inoculated against the histories of genocide and repression of autochthonous populations. The consistent discursive work needed to whitewash heritage in the metropole, and to legitimize present land control in the colonies, is presented as a major obstacle to building the kinds of coalitions that are necessary for environmental protection on a global scale.
AB - This chapter explores specific instances where environmentalist resistance to fossil fuel extraction mobilizes definitions of ‘heritage’ connected to colonial histories and ethnocentric visions for the future. Through discourse analysis of Facebook groups of the most successful campaigns to prevent hydraulic fracturing for natural gas in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South Africa, national ‘ethnoscapes’ that bind activists together are exposed as wrapped up in attempts to secure the nation as a white possession. Pre-enclosure Britain, the Australia of the Eureka Stockade, and white colonial expansion in South Africa are produced as Golden Ages, which must be inoculated against the histories of genocide and repression of autochthonous populations. The consistent discursive work needed to whitewash heritage in the metropole, and to legitimize present land control in the colonies, is presented as a major obstacle to building the kinds of coalitions that are necessary for environmental protection on a global scale.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-77708-1_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-77708-1_9
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85129184121
T3 - Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
SP - 185
EP - 212
BT - Palgrave Studies in Cultural Heritage and Conflict
PB - Palgrave Macmillan
ER -
