Dash for Gas: Climate Change, Hegemony and the Scalar Politics of Fracking in the UK
通过分析英国四次公众调查，研究水力压裂支持者和反对者如何利用尺度策略（连接或断开空间与时间尺度）来动员利益，揭示化石燃料霸权如何通过将地方利益与全国或全球利益挂钩而得以维持。
Abstract This paper investigates the political contestation over hydraulic fracturing of shale gas, or ‘fracking’, in the UK. Based on an analysis of four public inquiries, it shows how both proponents and opponents of fracking employed scaling to mobilize interests by connecting (or disconnecting) fracking to spatial and temporal scales. The analysis explains how a fossil fuel hegemony was reproduced by linking local and specific benefits to nationally or globally recognized interests such as employment, energy security and emission reductions. The paper contributes to recent debates on environmental political contestation by showing how scaling enables the linkage of competing interests by alternating between spatial (e.g. local vs. global) and temporal (e.g. short term vs. long term) horizons. The authors argue that scaling allows dominant actors to uphold contradictory positions on climate change, which contributes to explaining the current disastrous political climate impasse.