Gilbertz Susan J, Anderson Matthew B, Adkins Jason M
Department of Social Sciences and Cultural Studies, Montana State University Billings.
Department of Geography, Anthropology, and Planning, Eastern Washington University.
Ann Am Assoc Geogr. 2021;111(2):591-608. doi: 10.1080/24694452.2020.1774351. Epub 2020 Jul 27.
This work advances the critical urban studies literature on "planetary urbanization" by emphasizing the everyday struggles experienced by the people who live in and through planetary transformations. Specifically, we empirically investigated people in Eastern Montana who experienced the intensive and extensive oil and gas production of the Bakken Boom via interview and survey data. In the process, we interrogated Henri Lefebvre's notion of the "blind field," and conclude that what we call the "Bakken blind field" represents a deeply engrained "habit of the mind" that functions for the energy industry as a means of neutralizing the transformative potential that always lurks in response to persistent socio-environmentally exploitative practices. We suggest that the degree of illumination that results from personal hardships can determine the degree to which local exploitation is rejected (or accepted) as a necessary result of living with oil and gas.
这项工作通过强调生活在全球转型之中并受其影响的人们所经历的日常斗争，推动了关于“全球城市化”的批判性城市研究文献发展。具体而言，我们通过访谈和调查数据，对蒙大拿州东部那些经历了巴肯热潮中密集且广泛的石油和天然气生产的人们进行了实证研究。在此过程中，我们审视了亨利·列斐伏尔的“盲区”概念，并得出结论：我们所称的“巴肯盲区”代表了一种根深蒂固的“思维习惯”，它对能源行业起到一种作用，即抵消因持续的社会环境剥削行为而始终潜藏的变革潜力。我们认为，个人苦难所带来的认知程度能够决定当地剥削作为与油气共存的必然结果而被拒绝（或接受）的程度。
