"I care more about this place, because I fought for it": Exploring the political ecology of fracking in an ethnographic field school

Journal of Environmental Studies and Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 37-46

  Poole, Amanda ^a   Hudgins, Anastasia ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Coal; Ethnographic field school; Fracking; Marcellus Shale; Natural gas; Pedagogy; Political ecology; Public anthropology

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOLOGY; COAL MINING; ETHNOPOLITICS; HYDRAULIC FRACTURE; INDUSTRIAL ECOLOGY; LAND USE CONFLICT; RESEARCH WORK; STAKEHOLDER;

PENNSYLVANIA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84977176799     PISSN: 21906483     EISSN: 21906491     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13412-013-0148-6     Document Type: Article

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