Anticipating fracking: Shale gas developments and the politics of time in Lancashire, UK

摘要: Abstract For over four years, local residents, the government, industry and scientists have been anticipating start of shale gas operations at a site Preston New Road in Lancashire, North West England. This paper examines how these different social actors perceive think about time, as well future fracking. Many their disagreements expose diverging ways which they make sense time point to temporality useful lens for understanding respective rationalities. Time also emerges principal mode experiencing inequality, because not all notions are equivalent relation power. The three dispositions towards that played out debate Lancashire construct as: owned, being same every moment, having real environmental effects. article analyses politics is an arena articulated negotiated, where compete hegemonic position with varying success. It concludes by arguing inscribing particular characteristics powerful tool forecloses some arguments creates power disparities debates around unconventional resource extraction.