Anti-Fracking Movements - Citizen Networks for Environmental Justice

Drawing on case studies from the UK, Spain, Germany, Colombia and Argentina, this book analyses how the anti-fracking movement has emerged as a powerful citizen platform with an ability to mobilize large numbers, change public sentiment and government opinion, and challenge powerful actors. In response to the fracking boom, anti-fracking groups have emerged throughout the world and are playing a pivotal role in exposing different instances of substantive environmental and ecological injustice. Although the ability of affected residents to draw upon translocal slogans such as "not in my backyard" (NIMBY) has been powerful and has helped the anti-fracking movement avoid becoming spatially restricted, little is known about the formation of these broad-based coalitions. Combining theoretical insights from green criminology and social movement studies, the authors address three critical questions: What role do shared claims of justice play in motivating citizens to join the anti-fracking movement? What are the strategies, actions and networks of the anti-fracking movement? Finally, how has the anti-fracking movement shifted from the local to the national, and then to global, levels?>

List of contents

Part I: Overview
1. Introduction
2. Bridging the Gap Between Green Criminology and Social Movement Studies
PART II Case Studies
3. ‘Much More than NIMBYism’: the UK’s Anti-Fracking Movement
4. Spain and the Case of the Basque Country
5. The Anti-Fracking Movement and the ‘Ban’ in Germany
6. Argentina and the Vaca Muerta
7. Colombia and the Case of San Martín
PART III Discussion and Conclusion
8. Comparison of Case Studies
9. Conclusion
Index
Bibliography

About the author

Dr Damien Short is a Reader in Human Rights at the School of Advanced Study, University of London. He is Director of the School's Human Rights Consortium and Extreme Energy Initiative and Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Human Rights.

Product details

• Authors: Malayna Raftopoulos, Raftopoulos Malayna, Damien Short, Short Damien
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 19.03.2026
• EAN: 9781350247444
• ISBN: 978-1-350-24744-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Nature / Environmental Conservation & Protection, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy, Political activism, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Demonstrations & protest movements, Environmentalist, Conservationist & Green Organizations, Environmentalist, conservationist and Green organizations, Green politics / ecopolitics / environmentalism