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Invalid theory impedes our understanding: a critique on the persistence of the language of NIMBY
Author(s) -
Wolsink Maarten
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
transactions of the institute of british geographers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.196
H-Index - 107
eISSN - 1475-5661
pISSN - 0020-2754
DOI - 10.1111/j.1475-5661.2006.00191.x
Subject(s) - nimby , opposition (politics) , white privilege , sociology , heteronormativity , privilege (computing) , field (mathematics) , power (physics) , ambivalence , refugee , gender studies , epistemology , law , political science , racism , politics , social psychology , psychology , human sexuality , philosophy , engineering , physics , mathematics , quantum mechanics , pure mathematics , civil engineering
The key thesis in Hubbard's paper ‘Accommodating Otherness: anti‐asylum centre protest and the maintenance of white privilege’ is that racial dimensions of opposition to asylum seekers centres are part of cultural NIMBYism. This connection of complex issues with an invalid concept obscures our understanding of the role of ‘otherness’ in facility siting discussions. The deconstruction of the contested NIMBY concept is illustrated by a brief review of wind power, which was mentioned as a field in which ‘otherness’ had not been incorporated.