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A Rural Community's Mobilization and Media Strategies in Response to a Contested Infrastructural Project

A Rural Community's Mobilization and Media Strategies in Response to a Contested Infrastructural Project
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Author(s): Liam James Leonard (Arden University Manchester, UK)
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 20
Source title: Cases on Crimes, Investigations, and Media Coverage
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Liam James Leonard (University of Winchester, UK)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-9668-5.ch011

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Abstract

The chapter will examine the mobilization and social media response of a rural community in Ireland to the imposition of a gas pipeline on their farms, in the western coastal region of that jurisdiction. This analysis will include a discussion of the concept of ‘rural sentiment' as a factor in the mobilization of community campaigns against infrastructural projects which are perceived as a threat to existing ways of life in regional areas. The chapter will also explore key theoretical concepts for this community-based responses to environmental degradation in rural areas, including critical criminology, green criminology rural criminology and resource curse theory and ask whether the campaign was ecopopulist, with issues of social and environmental justice at its core. The ‘crime' here was in relation to the disruption of nature and community life in a rural area by a corporate entity, backed by the state. The case analysis will be achieved through a case study approach.

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