Fighting King Coal : The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia /

In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected...

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Autor principal: Bell, Shannon Elizabeth (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2016.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Environmental justice.
Environmental health > Social aspects.
Environmental degradation > Health aspects.
Community activists.
Coal mines and mining > Health aspects.
Coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Sociology > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Charbon > Mines et extraction > Aspect de l'environnement > Virginie-Occidentale.
Justice environnementale > Virginie-Occidentale.
Community activists > West Virginia.
Environmental degradation > Health aspects > West Virginia.
Coal mines and mining > Health aspects > West Virginia.
Coal mines and mining > Environmental aspects > West Virginia.
Environmental health > Social aspects > West Virginia.
Environmental justice > West Virginia.
West Virginia.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Contextualizing the Case : Central Appalachia
  • Micro-Level Processes and Social Movement Participation
  • The Depletion of Social Capital in Coalfield Communities
  • Identity and Environmental Justice Movement Participation
  • Cognitive Liberation and Coal Industry Ideology
  • Cognitive Liberation and Hidden Destruction in Central Appalachia
  • Photovoice in Five Coalfield Communities
  • Becoming, and Un-Becoming, an Activist.

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