Quinn, Orla Patricia
(2014)
The problem with alliances for the anti-fracking movement on the island of Ireland.
Masters thesis, National University of Ireland Maynooth.
Abstract
This research looks at the role of alliances in the context of one of the largest collective
struggles across the island of Ireland today, the anti-fracking movement. It presents the
challenges facing communities directly opposing this new emerging industry and challenges
them to critically reflect on their engagement with outside actors as they organise a collective
opposition to it. This thesis explores how a green neo liberal hegemony controls the current
‘environmental movement’ driven by powerful elites; multinationals, the state and state
actors, and official ‘environmentalism’. With these one-time allies now largely absent,
combined with the growing threat of globalisation which ‘synergises’ power at the top to
work against social movements, has this left the anti- fracking movement fighting the
fracking battle alone?
Drawing from the experiences ofanti- fracking campaigners from the North West, Belfast and
Dublin, and outside activists from Ireland and Alberta, Canada, this research seeks to explore
how building a broad ranging alliance at the grassroots of these very actors can produce the
most effective resistance to corporate power. In an effort to contribute to activist knowledge,
this thesis aims to inform two main audiences; grassroots activists involved in the antifracking
struggle and ‘professional’ environmentalists. In an attempt to make the findings as
inclusive as possible and for it to be applicable to both audiences it was difficult to contain
the word count of this thesis to twenty thousand words or indeed thirty thousand words!
| Item Type: |
Thesis
(Masters)
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| Additional Information: |
Submitted in part fulfilment of the requirements for the
MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism |
| Keywords: |
problem; alliances; anti-fracking movement; Ireland; MA in Community Education, Equality and Social Activism; |
| Academic Unit: |
Faculty of Social Sciences > Adult and Community Education |
| Item ID: |
12240 |
| Depositing User: |
IR eTheses
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| Date Deposited: |
21 Jan 2020 10:01 |
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| Use Licence: |
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