Transforming Places

Author： Fisher   Stephen L.  

Publisher： University of Illinois Press‎

Publication year： 2012

E-ISBN: 9780252093760

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9780252036668

Subject： K1 World History

Keyword： 世界史

Language： ENG

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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, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays 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._x000B_Contributors are Fran Ansley, Yaira Andrea Arias Soto, Dwight B. Billings, M. Kathryn Brown, Jeannette Butterworth, Paul Castelloe, Aviva Chomsky, Dave Cooper, Walter Davis, Meredith Dean, Elizabeth C. Fine, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Doug Gamble, Nina Gregg, Edna Gulley, Molly Hemstreet, Mary Hufford, Ralph Hutchison, Donna Jones, Ann Kingsolver, Sue Ella Kobak, Jill Kriesky, Michael E. Maloney, Lisa Markowitz, Linda McKinney, Ladelle McWhorter, Marta Maria Miranda, Chad Montrie, Maureen Mullinax, Phillip J. Obermiller, Rebecca O'Doherty, Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Anita Puckett, Katie Richards-Schuster, June Rostan, Rees Shearer, Daniel Swan, Joe Szakos, Betsy Taylor, Thomas E. Wagner, Craig White, and Ryan Wishart.

Chapter

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Invocation/Invocacion Marta Maria Miranda

Introduction: Placing Appalachia Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith

I. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINS: PLACE, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE

1. Stop the Bombs: Local Organizing with Global Reach Ralph Hutchison

2. RAIL Solution: Taking on Halliburton on the Home Front Rees Shearer

3. This Land Is Your Land: Local Organizing and the Hegemony of Growth Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble

4. Identity Matters: Building an Urban Appalachian Movement in Cincinnati Phillip J. Obermiller, M.

5. Appalachian Youth Re-envisioning Home, Re-making Identities Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O

6. Resistance through Community-based Arts Maureen Mullinax

II. WHERE NO ONE STANDS ALONE: BRIDGING DIVIDES

7. Organizing Appalachian Women: Hope Lies in the Struggle Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda

8. The Southern Empowerment Project: Homegrown Organizing Gone Too Soon June Rostan and Walter Davis

9. Center for Participatory Change: Cultivating Grassroots Support Organizing Craig White, Paul Cast

10. Faith-based Coalitions and Organized Labor: New Forms of Collaboration in the Twenty-first Centu

11. Talking Union in Two Languages: Labor Rights and Immigrant Workers in East Tennessee

III. CLIMBING JACOB'S LADDER: SCALING UP

12. Virginia Organizing: The Action Is at the State Level Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter

13. OxyContin Flood in the Coalfields: "Searching for Higher Ground" Sue Ella Kobak

14. Not Your Grandmother's Agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's Agrifood Activism Jenrose Fitz

15. Mountain Justice Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Ryan Wishart, and Dave Cooper

16. Who Knows? Who Tells?: Creating a Knowledge Commons Anita Puckett, Elizabeth Fine, Mary Hufford,

17. North and South: Struggles over Coal in Colombia and Appalachia Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie

Conclusion: Transformations in Place Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher

List of Contributors

Index

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