Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgement -- Introduction -- The Czech coal mining sector, its issues, and perspectives -- The history of the Czech coal-mining sector -- From WWII to the Velvet Revolution -- Coal in a liberalized economy -- The impact of mining on the local population -- The Territorial Limits on Brown-coal Mining in the North Bohemian Basin -- Conflict over the Limits -- Interests and their representatives -- The pro-mining camp -- Opponents of mining -- The position of the relevant governmental bureaucracy -- Political parties and the government -- Internal factors affecting the future of the Limits -- The emphasis on nuclear energy -- The role of coal in heating -- The price of resuming mining at the Czechoslovak Army Mine -- The strength of the opposition -- A regional context - the situation in Germany and Poland -- The depiction of coal mining in the media -- Media content -- Media articles -- Local Opposition in Relational Perspective -- Local Opposition: The NIMBY Syndrome and Beyond -- The Relational Approach: Discursive and Social Structure Layers -- Social Networks Analysis -- Discursive and Social Structure Layers of Local Opposition -- Local Opposition and Collective Action Frames -- Local Opposition and Social Networks -- Anti-Fossil Narratives as Collective Action Frames: A Case Study -- Research Design -- Findings -- Social Networks as Micro-mobilization Structures: A Case Study -- Research design -- Findings -- Conclusion -- Literature -- Table 1 - Industrialization in Bohemia (1850-1910) and Czechoslovakia (1950-2000, without Slovakia after 1993) (Kuskova, Gingrich, &amp -- Krausmann, 2008) -- Table 2 - Reserves at the most impacted mining sites (Melichar, Vojtěch, &amp -- Ščasn�y, 2012) -- Table 5 - Corpus statistics: basic annual statistics at the level of articles.

Table 4 - Coal power plant construction in Poland (Caldecott et al., 2017) -- Table 3 - Hard coal and lignite/brown coal production (IEA, 2017) -- Table 7 - Topic model results: frequencies aggregated at the level of categories -- Table 6 - Topics, article frequencies, and general categories -- Table 8 - Adjacency matrix -- Table 10 - Long-term Cooperation Network Structural Properties -- Table 9 - A summary of frames and framing functions.

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