“Laciana Is Black. Greens Go Away!”: Environmentalists as Scapegoats in a Mountaintop Removal Conflict in Laciana Valley, Spain

摘要: This article presents findings from a case study of socioenvironmental conflict concerning mountaintop removal coal mining (MTR) in Spain. For 15 years, illegal and subsidised MTR has been providing number jobs along with significant negative environmental social impacts an area protected by European legislation. In 2018, the Union (EU) will prohibit state subsidies local population is already deeply divided, atmosphere confrontational. Drawing on ethnography, interviews, document analysis, this explores narrative variations—“disease,” “traitor,” “lazy foreigner,” “salon environmentalist”—characterising environmentalists as scapegoats, importance these processes for building ecological resistance movement historical area. The concludes that, related conflicts elsewhere, violence against those criticising practices, well “culture silence,” have strongly limited th...