The article I read was on a review of recent literature relevant to the ongoing shale gas boom and introduces the Journal of Political Ecology's Special Section on hydraulic fracking. The scholars discuss the need for ethnographic studies of the tumultuous social and physical transformations resulting from, and produced by, and unfolding frontiers of energy production that unsettles social, economic, and ecological landscapes. The authors then examined how inter community connections are vita to recognizing the shared structural conditions produced but the oil and gas industry's expansion, through examining the roles played by oil field services industry, the sequestration of information and agnotology, diving and conquer tactics, and shared experiences of risk and embodied effects. The articles examines how social science studies of hydraulic fracking are producing new and innovative methodologies for developing participatory academic and community research projects.
