Transforming places : lessons from Appalachia /

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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 ec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Fisher, Stephen L., 1944-, Smith, Barbara Ellen, 1951-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©2012.
Temas:
Community organization > Appalachian Region.
Social action > Appalachian Region.
Political participation > Appalachian Region.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > Comparative.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Economic Conditions.
HISTORY > Social History.
Community organization
Political participation
Social action
Social conditions
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Stop the bombs: local organizing with global reach / Ralph Hutchison
  • RAIL solution: taking on Halliburton on the home front / Rees Shearer
  • This land is your land: local organizing and the hegemony of growth / Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble
  • Identity matters: building an urban Appalachian movement in Cincinnati / Phillip J. Obermiller [and others]
  • Appalachian youth re-envisioning home, re-making identities / Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O'Doherty
  • Resistance through community-based arts / Katie Maureen Mullinax
  • Organizing Appalachian women: hope lies in the struggle / Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney
  • The southern empowerment project: homegrown organizing gone too soon / Jane Rostan and Walter Davis
  • Center for participatory change: cultivating grassrootssupport organizing / Craig White [and others]
  • Faith-based coalitions and organized labor: new forms of collaboration in the twenty-first century? / Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan
  • Talking union in two languages: labor rights and immigrant workers in East Tennessee / Fran Ansley
  • Virginia organizing: the action is at the state level / Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter
  • OxyContin flood in coal fields: "searching for higher ground" / Sue Ella Kobak
  • Not your grandmother's agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's agrifood activism / Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings
  • Mountain justice / Cassie Robinson-Pfleger [and others]
  • Who knows? Who tells? Creating a knowledge commons / Anita Puckett [and others]
  • North and South: struggles over coal in Colombia and Appalachia / Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie
  • Conclusions: transformations in place / Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher.

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