Environmental justice and social movements scholarship demonstrates how not-in-my-backyard activism by more privileged communities leaves the disadvantaged with “locally unwanted land uses.” Yet it overlooks instances of local support for risky industries. Our ethnographic case shows how a rural, white, mixed-income Pennsylvania community adopted a please-in-my-backyard stance toward shale gas extraction (fracking). Residents invited development on their land and supported it through quiet mobilization. While landowners prioritized benefits over risks, economics cannot fully explain their enthusiasm. Consistent with public opinion research, partisan identities and community obligations undergirded industry support even when personal benefits were limited. Devotion to self-reliance and property rights led residents to defend landowners’ freedom to lease their land. Cynicism toward government precluded endorsing environmental regulation, and the perception of antifracking activists as “liberal” outsiders linked support for fracking with community solidarity. This case illustrates why communities may champion risky industries and complicates theories of nonmobilization.

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请在我的后院：安静的动员以支持阿巴拉契亚社区的压裂

环境正义和社会运动奖学金展示了更多特权社区的非我后院激进主义如何让弱势群体遭受“当地不想要的土地用途”。然而，它忽略了当地支持风险行业的实例。我们的民族志案例展示了宾夕法尼亚州的一个农村白人混合收入社区如何对页岩气开采（水力压裂）采取“在我家后院取悦我”的立场。居民邀请在他们的土地上进行开发，并通过安静的动员来支持它。虽然土地所有者将利益置于风险之上，但经济学无法完全解释他们的热情。与舆论研究一致，即使个人利益有限，党派身份和社区义务也加强了行业支持。居民对自力更生和财产权的投入使他们捍卫土地所有者出租土地的自由。对政府的犬儒主义排除了环境监管的支持，反压裂活动家被视为“自由”局外人的看法将水力压裂的支持与社区团结联系起来。这个案例说明了为什么社区可能会支持风险行业并使非动员理论复杂化。