Appalachia revisited : new perspectives on place, tradition, and progress /
Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcar...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington, Kentucky :
University Press of Kentucky,
2016.
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Colección: | Place matters (Series) (Lexington, Ky.)
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: Place and place-making in Appalachia / William Schumann
- Part 1. Race, Ethnicity, and Gender
- 1. Revisiting Appalachia, revisiting self / Kathryn L. Duvall, Kelly A. Dorgan, and Sadie P. Hutson
- 2. Carolina Chocolate Drops : performative expressions and reception of Affrilachian identity / Yunina Barbour-Payne
- 3. Beyond a wife's perspective on politics : one woman's expression of identity in western North Carolina in the postwar period / Amanda Zeddy
- 4. Intersections of Appalachian identity / Anna Rachel Terman
- Part 2. Language, Rhetoric, and Literacy
- 5. Appalachia beyond the mountains : ethical, community-based research in urban Appalachian neighborhoods / Kathryn Trauth Taylor
- 6. Digital rhetorics of Appalachia and the cultural studies classroom / Jessica Blackburn
- 7. Continuity and change of English consonants in Appalachia / Kirk Hazen, Jordan Lovejoy, Jaclyn Daugherty, and Madeline Vandevender
- Part 3. Economy and Environment
- 8. Frackonomics / Jacqueline Yahn
- 9. Revisiting Appalachian icons in the production and consumption of tourist art / Kristin Kant-Byers
- 10. From the coal mine to the prison yard : the human cost of Appalachia's new economy / Melissa Ooten and Jason Sawyer
- 11. Walking the fence line of the crooked road : engaging in the marketplace of tourism while empowering a place-based civic commons / Anita Puckett
- Part 4. Engagement
- 12. "No one's ever talked to us before" : participatory approaches and economic development in rural Appalachian communities / Tim Ezzell
- 13. Strength in numbers : the Federation of Appalachian Housing Enterprises / Diane N. Loeffler and Jim King
- 14. When collaboration leads to action : collecting and making history in a Deep South state / Mark Wilson
- 15. Participation and transformation in twenty-first-century Appalachian scholarship / Gabriel A. Piser
- (Re)introduction : the global neighborhoods of Appalachian studies / Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
- Appendix: Teaching exercises.