RT Article
T1 Blockadia rising: rowdy greens, direct action and the Keystone XL pipeline
JF Critical criminology
VO 23
IS 4
SP 433
OP 448
A1 Bradshaw, Elizabeth A.
LA English
YR 2015
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1849795878
AB TransCanada’s proposed Keystone XL pipeline has encountered opposition from Indigenous peoples, landowners, and environmental activists across North America. Cropping up wherever extractive projects such as hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and tar sands expansion are found, Blockadia (Klein in This changes everything: Capitalism vs. the climate, Simon and Schuster, New York, 2014) is a roving, transnational conflict zone that has become host to the showdown between environmental activists and the fossil fuel industry. Utilizing increasingly confrontational direct action tactics such as marches, mass arrests, lockdowns and blockades, "rowdy greens" such as 350.org are seeking to address climate change by taking to the streets, while other groups such as Tars Sands Blockade take to the trees to obstruct oil sands infrastructure projects. With the battle over Keystone XL still undecided, President Obama is faced with a crucial decision: approve the pipeline and allow further state facilitation of corporate crime within the fossil fuel industry, or reject the project and reaffirm the vital role of mass social movements in creating change.
NO Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 445-448
K1 Civil Disobedience
K1 Corporate Crime
K1 Environmental Resource Management
K1 Fossil Fuel Industry
K1 Pipeline Project
DO 10.1007/s10612-015-9289-0