Resistance, Acceptance, and Quiescence: The Role of Social Networks in Predicting Responses to a New Natural Gas Pipeline

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dc.contributor.authorBell, Shannon E.en
dc.contributor.authorGerus, Stephenen
dc.contributor.authorMullins, Danielle R.en
dc.contributor.authorHughes, Michael D.en
dc.date.accessioned2023-01-25T13:49:03Zen
dc.date.available2023-01-25T13:49:03Zen
dc.date.issued2022-04-28en
dc.date.updated2023-01-25T01:28:10Zen
dc.description.abstractAs a wide body of social movements scholarship demonstrates, inaction in the face of environmental injustice is far more frequent than mobilization. Using the case of the Mountain Valley Pipeline – a highly controversial natural gas pipeline that has been under construction through the Appalachian Mountains of Virginia and West Virginia since 2018 – we ask: what conditions predict whether a person who has experienced negative quality-of-life impacts from this pipeline will take action or resign themselves to quiescence? Through our analysis of responses to a 92-question survey questionnaire that our team mailed to residents living in ten of the counties through which the Mountain Valley Pipeline is being constructed, we find that the most powerful predictors of quiescence are variables related to social networks. Among respondents reporting negative quality-of-life impacts from the pipeline, those with neighbors supporting the pipeline were nine times more likely to be quiescent, and those who were not sure how their neighbors felt about the pipeline were five times more likely to be quiescent. Likewise, those who had joined a social media group focused on stopping the pipeline were nine times more likely to take part in resistance actions than those who had not. We situate our findings within existing scholarship on social movements, which points to the centrality of social networks for predicting social movement participation and quiescence, while also adding nuance to discussions of neoliberalism and sites of acceptance.en
dc.description.notesRevise and resubmit for a special issue on Sites of Acceptance in the Neoliberal Eraen
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dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1089/env.2021.0112en
dc.identifier.eissn1937-5174en
dc.identifier.issn1939-4071en
dc.identifier.orcidBell, Shannon [0000-0002-7338-3757]en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/113421en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherMary Ann Lieberten
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectquiescenceen
dc.subjectnatural gas pipelinesen
dc.subjectsocial networksen
dc.subjectpoweren
dc.subjectsocial movementsen
dc.subjectAppalachiaen
dc.subjectEmerging Infectious Diseasesen
dc.subjectVaccine Relateden
dc.subjectPreventionen
dc.subjectBiodefenseen
dc.subjectClinical Researchen
dc.subjectBehavioral and Social Scienceen
dc.titleResistance, Acceptance, and Quiescence: The Role of Social Networks in Predicting Responses to a New Natural Gas Pipelineen
dc.title.serialEnvironmental Justiceen
dc.typeArticle - Refereeden
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