Transforming places : lessons from Appalachia / edited by Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith.
"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 ec...
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Table of Contents:
- Stop the bombs: local organizing with global reach / Ralph Hutchison
- RAIL solution: taking on Halliburton on the home front / Rees Shearer
- This land is your land: local organizing and the hegemony of growth / Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble
- Identity matters: building an urban Appalachian movement in Cincinnati / Phillip J. Obermiller, ... [et al.]
- Appalachian youth re-envisioning home, re-making identities / Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O'Doherty
- Resistance through community-based arts / Katie Maureen Mullinax
- Organizing Appalachian women: hope lies in the struggle / Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney
- The southern empowerment project: homegrown organizing gone too soon / Jane Rostan and Walter Davis
- Center for participatory change: cultivating grassrootssupport organizing / Craig White, ... [et al.]
- Faith-based coalitions and organized labor: new forms of collaboration in the twenty-first century? / Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan
- Talking union in two languages: labor rights and immigrant workers in East Tennessee / Fran Ansley
- Virginia organizing: the action is at the state level / Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter
- OxyContin flood in coal fields: "searching for higher ground" / Sue Ella Kobak
- Not your grandmother's agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's agrifood activism / Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings
- Mountain justice / Cassie Robinson-Pfleger, ... [et al.]
- Who knows? Who tells? Creating a knowledge commons / Anita Puckett, ... [et al.]
- North and South: struggles over coal in Colombia and Appalachia / Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie
- Conclusions: transformations in place / Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher.