Part I: Mapping environmental risks: The burrowers.
In: Environmental Risks & the Media, 1999-11-11, S. 73-89
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This article provides news about bodies, tunnels and green guerrillas. In April 1997 protesters dug under the proposed site of a new stretch of the A30 at Fairmile, near Honiton in Devon, south-west England. Tree-dwelling protesters attracted considerable media attention but something about the action of those who burrowed beneath the earth really caught the imagination of journalists. It also proved a very effective way of resisting eviction for these green guerrillas. But the protesters did not get off lightly in the Express, dubbed by Norman that lank-haired, anorak wearing vegan class, but their democratic right to protest was firmly stated and the dubious use of vague laws was condemned. The Express managed to sympathise with the protest, condemn left-wing politics, denigrate veganism, ridicule the tree and tunnel rebellion and support British law and order, at a stroke. The only explanation for its convoluted approach might be the need to satisfy a readership of rather conservative, nationalistic green-belt dwelling not in my backyarders some of whom might well have been providing warm baths and hot meals to the empty headed hippies at Manchester. Its sister paper, the Daily Mail, steered clear of the kind of turbulent ideological political effort adopted by the Express by ignoring the whole thing.
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Part I: Mapping environmental risks: The burrowers.
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Wykes, Maggie ; Allan, Stuart ; Adam, Barbara ; Carter, Cynthia |
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Zeitschrift: | Environmental Risks & the Media, 1999-11-11, S. 73-89 |
Quelle: | Environmental Risks & the Media; (1999-11-11) S. 73-89 |
Veröffentlichung: | 1999 |
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ISBN: | 978-0-415-21447-6 (print) |
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