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Transforming Places Lessons from Appalachia

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ISBN-10: 0252078381

ISBN-13: 9780252078385

Edition: 2012

Authors: Stephen L. Fisher, Barbara Ellen Smith, Fran Ansley, Yaira Andrea Arias Soto, Dwight B. Billings

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 In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists in other resource-rich yet impoverished regions across the globe, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays by scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds explores this wide range of oppositional politics, querying its successes, limitations, and impacts. The editors' critical introduction and conclusion integrate theories of place and space with analyses of organizations…    
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List price: $32.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Publication date: 2/14/2012
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 336
Size: 6.15" wide x 9.25" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 0.462
Language: English

Preface
Acknowledgments
Invocation/Invocation
Introduction: Placing Appalachia
Go Tell it on the Mountains: Place, Identity, and Culture
Stop the Bombs: Local Organizing with Global Reach
RAIL Solution: Taking on Halliburton on the Home Front
This Land Is Your Land: Local Organizing and the Hegemony of Growth
Identity Matters: Building an Urban Appalachian Movement in Cincinnati
Appalachian Youth Re-envisioning Home, Re-making Identities
Resistance through Community-based Arts
Where no one Stand Alone Bridging Divides
Organizing Appalachian Women: Hope Lies in the Struggle<c>Meredith Dean</c><f>Dean, Meredith</f><c>Edna Gulley</c><f>Gulley, Edna</f>
The Southern Empowerment Project: Homegrown Organizing Gone Too Soon
Center for Participatory Change: Cultivating Grassroots Support Organizing
Faith-based Coalitions and Organized Labor: New Forms of Collaboration in the Twenty-first Century?
Talking Union in Two Languages: Labor Rights and Immigrant Workers in East Tennessee
Climbing Jacob's Ladder: Scaling Up
Virginia Organizing: The Action Is at the State Level
OxyContin Flood in the Coalfields: "Searching for Higher Ground"
Not Your Grandmother's Agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's Agrifood Activism
Mountain Justice
Who Knows? Who Tells? Creating a Knowledge Commons
North and South: Struggles over Coal in Colombia and Appalachia
Conclusion: Transformations in Place
List of Contributors
Index