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Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia
. Ed(S): Fisher, Stephen L.; Smith, Barbara Ellen
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Description for Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia
paperback. Shows just what global activists can learn from Appalachia Editor(s): Fisher, Stephen L.; Smith, Barbara Ellen. Num Pages: 336 pages, 12 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KB; JPF. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 25. Weight in Grams: 522.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Illinois Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252078385
SKU
V9780252078385
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About . Ed(S): Fisher, Stephen L.; Smith, Barbara Ellen
Stephen L. Fisher is professor emeritus at Emory & Henry College, where he founded and directed the Appalachian Center for Community Service. Barbara Ellen Smith is professor of women's and gender studies at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University.
Reviews for Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia
"An important, user-oriented document for Appalachia and elsewhere. Highly recommended."
Choice "As coal dies a hard, fast death, justice work turns to economic transition and encompasses a wide range of other issues, as detailed in the book, Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia by Steven L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith."
Justice "The seventeen original essays showcased in Transforming Places chronicle ... Read more
Choice "As coal dies a hard, fast death, justice work turns to economic transition and encompasses a wide range of other issues, as detailed in the book, Transforming Places: Lessons from Appalachia by Steven L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith."
Justice "The seventeen original essays showcased in Transforming Places chronicle ... Read more