Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia
Shannon Elizabeth Bell
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Paperback. Series: Urban and Industrial Environments. Num Pages: 336 pages, 60 figures. BIC Classification: JHBK5; LNKJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152. .
An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory: why so few of ... Read more
An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory: why so few of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
MIT Press Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Series
Urban and Industrial Environments
Condition
New
Weight
466g
Number of Pages
344
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass., United States
ISBN
9780262528801
SKU
V9780262528801
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Ref
99-2
About Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Shannon Elizabeth Bell is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed: Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice.
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