Removing mountains : extracting nature and identity in the Appalachian coalfields /

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An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Scott, Rebecca R.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2010.
Subjects:
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects > Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining > Social aspects > Appalachian Region.
Environmentalism > Appalachian Region.
Appalachians (People)
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Fossil Fuels.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects
Economic history
Environmentalism
Social conditions
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region > Economic conditions.
Appalachian Region
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: the logic of extraction
  • Hillbillies and coal miners: representations of a national sacrifice zone
  • Men moving mountains: coal mining masculinities and mountaintop removal
  • The gendered politics of pro-mountaintop removal discourse
  • ATVs in action: transgression, property rights, and tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy trail
  • Coal heritage/coal history: Appalachia, America, and mountaintop removal
  • Traces of history: "white" people, black coal
  • Conclusion: coal facts.

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