小镇社区的权力斗争:农村环境抗议、政治和超地方新闻媒体的交汇点

IF 4.1 1区 社会学 Q1 COMMUNICATION International Journal of Press-Politics Pub Date : 2023-04-01 DOI:10.1177/19401612221112029
J. Freeman, B. Hutchins
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本文对一个小镇上的大规模冲突进行了深入的案例研究,揭示了社区团体和激进主义、超地方新闻媒体和政治权力通过农村环境纠纷的复杂交叉方式。这种冲突的一个重要但未得到充分认识的特点是,乡村观念在环境抗议、话语和决策的构建中发挥着独特的作用;也就是说,农村社区的保护工作可能被不公平地定性为“倒退”和“反发展”。通过对抗议者和居民的一系列采访和焦点小组,我们的案例研究考察了一个有争议的船坡道开发项目,该项目对澳大利亚维多利亚州孤立的沿海城镇马拉科塔(人口1000)产生了显著的环境影响。我们表明,抗议者的环保行动主义将该问题的知名度提升到了地区、州和国家新闻和政治的层面。但是,针对抗议活动进行的社区协商过程引发了人们对政府决策的严重担忧,因为政府决策未能承认和协商社区内对地方和乡村的不同理解。在这个小镇上,权力斗争的结果是可悲而持久的,破坏了超地方新闻环境,破坏了社区报纸在公民中的声誉。
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Power Struggles in a Small Town Community: The Intersection of Rural Environmental Protest, Politics, and Hyperlocal News Media
This article presents an in-depth case study of large-scale conflict in a small town, and reveals the complex ways that community groups and activism, hyperlocal news media, and political power intersect through rural environmental disputes. An important but under-recognized feature of such conflicts is the unique role performed by notions of rurality in the construction of environmental protests, discourses, and decisions; that is, the ways in which rural communities’ conservation efforts can be unfairly characterized as “backwards” and “anti-development”. Through a series of interviews and focus groups with protestors and residents, our case study examines a controversial boat ramp development that had a marked environmental impact on the isolated coastal town of Mallacoota (population 1,000) in the state of Victoria, Australia. We show that the environmental activism of protesters lifted the issue's visibility to the level of regional, state, and national news and politics. But the community consultation processes that occurred in response to protests raise significant concerns about government decision making that fails to acknowledge and negotiate the diverse understandings of place and rurality that exist within a community. The outcomes of struggles for power in this small town are lamentable and lasting, damaging the hyperlocal news environment and undermining the community newspaper's reputation among citizens.
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期刊介绍: The International Journal of Press/Politics is an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. The Journal is interested in theoretical and empirical research on the linkages between the news media and political processes and actors. Special attention is given to the following subjects: the press and political institutions (e.g. the state, government, political parties, social movements, unions, interest groups, business), the politics of media coverage of social and cultural issues (e.g. race, language, health, environment, gender, nationhood, migration, labor), the dynamics and effects of political communication.
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