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Feltrin, Lorenzo, Mah, Alice and Brown, David (2022) Noxious deindustrialization : experiences of precarity and pollution in Scotland’s petrochemical capital. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space, 40 (4). pp. 950-969. doi:10.1177/23996544211056328 ISSN 2399-6544.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1177/23996544211056328
Abstract
This article introduces the concept of “noxious deindustrialization”—employment deindustrialization in areas where significantly noxious industries are still operating—and explores some implications of this paradox by studying community–industry relations in the Scottish petrochemical town of Grangemouth. In the heyday of “Boomtown Grangemouth” during the first three decades after World War II, there existed an implicit social contract between the local industry and community in which male fenceline residents had widespread access to secure and well-paid employment in the factories, but the community had to accept the related pollution and hazards. This social contract gradually declined since the late 1970s due to a combination of automation, rising qualification barriers and associated long-range recruiting, and outsourcing to a partially itinerant workforce. For the Grangemouth community, this trend led to the current situation of employment deindustrialization coupled with the continuing exposure to the socioenvironmental damage and hazards engendered by operating petrochemical plants. We argue that noxious deindustrialization—with its dystopian corollaries of rising inequality and precarity, cumulative environmental degradation, and loosening community ties—is happening both globally and in local areas and that Grangemouth is a dramatic example of noxious deindustrialization on a local level, where the phenomenon has put a strain on community–industry relations.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > GE Environmental Sciences H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor T Technology > TD Environmental technology. Sanitary engineering |
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| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Deindustrialization -- Scotland, Deindustrialization -- Social aspects -- Scotland, Petroleum chemicals industry - -Scotland, Urban pollution, Environmental justice | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space | ||||||||
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2399-6544 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 June 2022 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 40 | ||||||||
| Number: | 4 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 950-969 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/23996544211056328 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Reuse Statement (publisher, data, author rights): | Posted ahead of print. Feltrin, Lorenzo, Mah, Alice and Brown, David (2021) Noxious deindustrialization : experiences of precarity and pollution in Scotland’s petrochemical capital. Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space . (In Press)(Journal Volume Number and Issue Number) pp. xx-xx. Copyright © [year] (Copyright Holder). Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. DOI: [DOI] Users who receive access to an article through a repository are reminded that the article is protected by copyright and reuse is restricted to non-commercial and no derivative uses. | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant deposit: | 14 October 2021 | ||||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 15 October 2021 | ||||||||
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