Appalachia in Regional Context : Place Matters /

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In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies--a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Kingsolver, Ann E., 1960- (Editor), Billings, Dwight B., 1948- (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2018
Series:Place matters (Series) (Lexington, Ky.)
Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Globalization > Appalachian Region.
Appalachian Region > Social conditions.
Appalachian Region > History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : place matters / Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver
  • 1. "Placing" futures and making sense of globalization on the edge of Appalachia / Ann E. Kingsolver
  • 2. Transforming places : toward a global politics of Appalachia / Barbara Ellen Smith
  • 3. Place, autonomy, and the politics of hope / John Pickles
  • 4. The power of place and the place of power / John Gaventa
  • 5. "There are no gay people here" : expanding the boundaries of queer youth visibility in the rural United States / Mary L. Gray
  • 6. Gathering wild greens : foodways lessons from Appalachia's past / Elizabeth S.D. Engelhardt
  • 7. Buckwild mad men : necropolitics and masculinity in Appalachia / Carol Mason
  • 8. Reclaiming place : making home / bell hooks
  • 9. Somewheres on the track : place, art, and music in eastern Kentucky / Rich Kirby, John Haywood, and Ron Pen
  • 10. Teaching region / Dwight B. Billings, Gina Caison, David A. Davis, Laura Hernández-Ehrisman, Philip Joseph, Kent C. Ryden, and Emily Satterwhite.

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