Resistance to human fracking requires activism across many scales simultaneously
Evidence
Human fracking is a systemic harm. It operates on multiple scales simultaneously. So it stands to reason that any resistance worth its salt will have to move nimbly from the realms of the intimate through the social, the intellectual, the political, the legal, and the technological, to the infrastructural—and back again. Each zone requires a different kind of activism. All of these ways of engaging the problem call on different skill sets and sensibilities. All of them are necessary. This is why we need all hands on deck: teachers and artists and builders and technologists and spiritual leaders and lawyers and parents and organizers and scholars and long-haul truckers and meditators and mediators and family and friends. Everybody—everybody!—has something to offer. — The Friends of Attention, Attensity!, 240
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: National domestic struggles absorb activist energy that might target global summits — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1117; Everyday gathering groups constitute schools of attention against fracking; Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 298 (+3 more)
- yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: National domestic struggles absorb activist energy that might target global summits — Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 1117; Everyday gathering groups constitute schools of attention against fracking; Global environmental justice movements target misrecognition, exclusion, and incapacity alongside inequity — David Schlosberg, Defining Environmental Justice:…, 298 (+3 more)
Broader Connections
- Resistance efforts can be complicit with the very exclusionary power they oppose
#complicates(0.76) — Evelyn Alsultany, Arabs and Muslims in the Media, 1243