ABSTRACT
The chapter examines a case of an anti-fracking protest in Poland, the Occupy Chevron protest in Żurawlów, driven by a general interest in finding the meaning of local protests for non-local actors and various trans-local scales of politics. Faced with this puzzle, the chapter proposes to reflect on the processes of mobilization and scaling of local protests in a relational way. As the analysis unfolds, it shows how relations to multiple actors outside Żurawlów, NGO activists or MEPs from other EU Member States, stabilized the protest event as a part of a wider, global anti-fracking movement. As the same time, however, it is shown that, despite having forged some relations with Brussels actors, the Occupy Chevron has not been incorporated into the EU-level political debates on shale gas.
