Interpreting Industry's Impacts: Micropolitical Ecologies of Divergent Community Responses

• DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7660.2011.01740.x
• Publication Date: 2011-12-06T00:30:12Z
• Authors: Leah S. Horowitz
• Keywords: Grassroots

Where governments have failed to protect their citizens from the environmental and social impacts of industrial development, movements often arisen in response. However, other community members may defend — sometimes violently same corporations that are targeted by peers. The contributions this cluster explore some ways which communities disagree about how respond ecological industry, reactions inflected differential concerns economics, landscapes, indigenous rights human health. three studies illustrate heterogeneity display interpretations of, responses to, demonstrate diversity informs, crucial ways, grassroots activism against or acceptance it. In particular, examines community-scale actions, industry's upon these actions based, contested through multiple discourses centred around identities boundaries.