Appalachia in regional context : place matters / edited by Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver.

Includes bibliographies and index.

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.

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 and intolerance. In Appalachian studies, the diverse ways in which place is invoked, the person who invokes it, and the reasons behind that invocation all matter greatly. In Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters, Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver bring together voices from a variety of disciplines to broaden the conversation. The book begins with chapters challenging conventional representations of Appalachia by exploring the relationship between regionalism, globalism, activism, and everyday experience theoretically. Other chapters examine foodways, depictions of Appalachia in popular culture, and the experiences of rural LGBTQ youth. Poems by renowned social critic bell hooks interleave the chapters and add context to reflections on the region. Drawing on cultural anthropology, sociology, geography, media studies, political science, gender and women's studies, ethnography, social theory, art, music, literature and regional studies pedagogy, this volume furthers the exploration of new perspectives on one of America's most compelling and misunderstood regions.--

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