Removing Mountains : Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields /

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An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Scott, Rebecca R.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2010.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Social conditions.
Environmentalism.
Economic history.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects.
Appalachians (People)
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Human Geography.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING > Power Resources > Fossil Fuels.
Environmentalism > Appalachian Region.
Mountaintop removal mining > Social aspects > Appalachian Region.
Coal mines and mining > Social aspects > Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region > Economic conditions.
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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