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Transforming Places : Lessons from Appalachia.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Champaign : University of Illinois Press, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (337 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780252093760
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transforming PlacesDDC classification:
  • 330.974
LOC classification:
  • HN79
Online resources:
Contents:
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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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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