Appalachia Revisited (eBook)
318 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6698-8 (ISBN)
Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources, Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic, political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education, drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and controversial region has been examined by generations of scholars, activists, and civil servants -- all offering an array of perspectives on Appalachia and its people.
In this innovative volume, editors William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher assemble both scholars and nonprofit practitioners to examine how Appalachia is perceived both within and beyond its borders. Together, they investigate the region's transformation and analyze how it is currently approached as a topic of academic inquiry. Arguing that interdisciplinary and comparative place-based studies increasingly matter, the contributors investigate numerous topics, including race and gender, environmental transformation, university-community collaborations, cyber identities, fracking, contemporary activist strategies, and analyze Appalachia in the context of local-to-global change.
A pathbreaking study analyzing continuity and change in the region through a global framework, Appalachia Revisited is essential reading for scholars and students as well as for policymakers, community and charitable organizers, and those involved in community development.
lt;P>William Schumann is director of Appalachian studies at Appalachian State University.
Rebecca Adkins Fletcher is a visiting lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and adjunct faculty at Ohio University Southern.
Introduction: Place and Place-Making in AppalachiaRevisiting Appalachia, Revisiting SelfCarolina Chocolate Drops: Globalization and the Performative Expressions and Reception of Affrilachian IdentityBeyond 'A Wife's Perspective on Politics': One Woman's Expression of Identity in Western North Carolina in the Post-War PeriodIntersectionality and Appalachian IdentityMethods of Ethical, Community-Based Research: Documenting Strategy and Struggle in Everyday Urban AppalachiaDigital Rhetorics of Appalachia and the Cultural Studies ClassroomContinuity and Change for English Consonants in AppalachiaFrackonomicsRevisiting Appalachian Icons in the Production and Consumption of Tourist ArtFrom the Coal Mine to the Prison Yard: The Human Cost of Appalachia's New EconomyWalking the Fence Line of The Crooked Road: Engaging in the Marketplace of Tourism while Empowering a Place-Based Civic CommonsNo One's Ever Talked to Us Before: Participatory Approaches and Economic Development in Rural Appalachian CommunitiesStrength in Numbers: FAHEWhen Collaboration Leads to Action: Collecting and Making History in a Deep South StateParticipation and Transformation in Appalachian Scholarship: Notes Toward an InstigationConclusion: (Re)Introduction: The Global Threads of Appalachian Studies
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 22.7.2016 |
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Reihe/Serie | Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies |
Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies | Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies |
Zusatzinfo | 2 maps, 9 figures, 7 tables |
Verlagsort | Lexington |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 150 x 150 mm |
Themenwelt | Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft |
Schlagworte | Affrilachia • affrilachians • appalachian economics • Appalachian stereotypes • Appalachian Studies • Economic Development • Environmental activism • environment and energy • rural activism • urban appalachia • us state and local history • women in appalachia |
ISBN-10 | 0-8131-6698-5 / 0813166985 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8131-6698-8 / 9780813166988 |
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