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100 1 _aFisher, Stephen L.
245 1 0 _aTransforming Places :
_bLessons from Appalachia.
250 _a1st ed.
264 1 _aChampaign :
_bUniversity of Illinois Press,
_c2012.
264 4 _c©2012.
300 _a1 online resource (337 pages)
336 _atext
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505 0 _aCover -- 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,.
505 8 _a17. 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.
588 _aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
590 _aElectronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aCommunity organization--Appalachian Region.
650 0 _aSocial action--Appalachian Region.
650 0 _aPolitical participation--Appalachian Region.
650 0 _aAppalachian Region--Social conditions.
655 4 _aElectronic books.
700 1 _aSmith, Barbara Ellen.
700 1 _aAnsley, Fran.
700 1 _aSoto, Yaira Andrea Arias.
700 1 _aBillings, Dwight B.
700 1 _aBrown, M. Kathryn.
700 1 _aButterworth, Jeannette.
700 1 _aCastelloe, Paul.
700 1 _aChomsky, Aviva.
700 1 _aCooper, Dave.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_aFisher, Stephen L.
_tTransforming Places
_dChampaign : University of Illinois Press,c2012
_z9780252036668
797 2 _aProQuest (Firm)
856 4 0 _uhttps://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3414007
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