Discursive positioning of actors in a gold mining conflict in Northern Greece: Risk calculus, subjectification and place
| Autor: | Tasos Hovardas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Subjectification
Gold mining business.industry Bond 05 social sciences Geography Planning and Development 0507 social and economic geography Subject (philosophy) 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Development 01 natural sciences Natural resource Grassroots Work (electrical) Political economy Political science Economic Geology business 050703 geography 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Connotation |
| Zdroj: | The Extractive Industries and Society. 7:110-118 |
| ISSN: | 2214-790X |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.exis.2019.12.001 |
| Popis: | The gold mining conflict in Skouries, Greece, has been a major natural resource controversy during the last several years. The present contribution focused on the discursive positioning of pro- and anti-mining actors, who all strove to remain agents of risk by employing manifest strategies (institutional and grassroots initiatives) and latent strategies (not yet enacted but voiced). These strategies have been incubating divergent subject positions in each camp. Anytime the mining project was threatened, miners took over mining tunnels to demonstrate their indispensable bonds with their work and place in a pre-burial connotation. In sharp contrast to miners’ dependence on the mining company, local activists built on their own competences. Despite their strong bonds with place, activists with a post-fordist model of working and labour conditions were compelled to consider evacuating the area. The study showcases how natural resource conflicts are co-created by antagonistic actors in their discursive positioning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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