Transforming places : lessons from Appalachia /
Transforming places : lessons from Appalachia /
edited by Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith.
- Urbana : University of Illinois Press, (c)2012.
- 1 online resource (viii, 322 pages)
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Includes bibliographies and index.
Stop the bombs: local organizing with global reach / RAIL solution: taking on Halliburton on the home front / This land is your land: local organizing and the hegemony of growth / Identity matters: building an urban Appalachian movement in Cincinnati / Appalachian youth re-envisioning home, re-making identities / Resistance through community-based arts / Organizing Appalachian women: hope lies in the struggle / The southern empowerment project: homegrown organizing gone too soon / Center for participatory change: cultivating grassrootssupport organizing / Faith-based coalitions and organized labor: new forms of collaboration in the twenty-first century? / Talking union in two languages: labor rights and immigrant workers in East Tennessee / Virginia organizing: the action is at the state level / OxyContin flood in coal fields: "searching for higher ground" / Not your grandmother's agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's agrifood activism / Mountain justice / Who knows? Who tells? Creating a knowledge commons / North and South: struggles over coal in Colombia and Appalachia / Conclusions: transformations in place / Ralph Hutchison -- Rees Shearer -- Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble -- Phillip J. Obermiller, ... [and others -- Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O'Doherty -- Katie Maureen Mullinax -- Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney -- Jane Rostan and Walter Davis -- Craig White, ... [and others -- Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan -- Fran Ansley -- Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter -- Sue Ella Kobak -- Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings -- Cassie Robinson-Pfleger, ... [and others -- Anita Puckett, ... [and others -- Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie -- Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher.
"In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists in other resource-rich yet impoverished regions across the globe, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays by scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds explores this wide range of oppositional politics, querying its successes, limitations, and impacts. The editors' critical introduction and conclusion integrate theories of place and space with analyses of organizations and events discussed by contributors. Transforming Places illuminates widely relevant lessons about building coalitions and movements with sufficient strength to challenge corporate-driven globalization."--Publisher's website.
9780252093760 9781283582681 9786613895134 661389513X
2021700611
015990883 Uk
Community organization--Appalachian Region.
Social action--Appalachian Region.
Political participation--Appalachian Region.
Electronic Books.
HN79 / .T736 2012
Includes bibliographies and index.
Stop the bombs: local organizing with global reach / RAIL solution: taking on Halliburton on the home front / This land is your land: local organizing and the hegemony of growth / Identity matters: building an urban Appalachian movement in Cincinnati / Appalachian youth re-envisioning home, re-making identities / Resistance through community-based arts / Organizing Appalachian women: hope lies in the struggle / The southern empowerment project: homegrown organizing gone too soon / Center for participatory change: cultivating grassrootssupport organizing / Faith-based coalitions and organized labor: new forms of collaboration in the twenty-first century? / Talking union in two languages: labor rights and immigrant workers in East Tennessee / Virginia organizing: the action is at the state level / OxyContin flood in coal fields: "searching for higher ground" / Not your grandmother's agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's agrifood activism / Mountain justice / Who knows? Who tells? Creating a knowledge commons / North and South: struggles over coal in Colombia and Appalachia / Conclusions: transformations in place / Ralph Hutchison -- Rees Shearer -- Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble -- Phillip J. Obermiller, ... [and others -- Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O'Doherty -- Katie Maureen Mullinax -- Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney -- Jane Rostan and Walter Davis -- Craig White, ... [and others -- Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan -- Fran Ansley -- Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter -- Sue Ella Kobak -- Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings -- Cassie Robinson-Pfleger, ... [and others -- Anita Puckett, ... [and others -- Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie -- Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher.
"In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists in other resource-rich yet impoverished regions across the globe, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays by scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds explores this wide range of oppositional politics, querying its successes, limitations, and impacts. The editors' critical introduction and conclusion integrate theories of place and space with analyses of organizations and events discussed by contributors. Transforming Places illuminates widely relevant lessons about building coalitions and movements with sufficient strength to challenge corporate-driven globalization."--Publisher's website.
9780252093760 9781283582681 9786613895134 661389513X
2021700611
015990883 Uk
Community organization--Appalachian Region.
Social action--Appalachian Region.
Political participation--Appalachian Region.
Electronic Books.
HN79 / .T736 2012