Fighting King Coal - Shannon Elizabeth Bell

Fighting King Coal

The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia
Buch | Softcover
344 Seiten
2016
MIT Press (Verlag)
978-0-262-52880-1 (ISBN)
41,15 inkl. MwSt
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 the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution rise up to participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability. Using the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia as a case study, Bell investigates the challenges of micromobilization through in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis, geospatial viewshed analysis, and an eight-month "Photovoice" project-an innovative means of studying, in real time, the social dynamics affecting activist involvement in the region. Although the Photovoice participants took striking photographs and wrote movingly about the environmental destruction caused by coal production, only a few became activists. Bell reveals the importance of local identities to the success or failure of local recruitment efforts in social movement struggles, ultimately arguing that, if the local identities of environmental justice movements are lost, the movements may also lose their power.

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.

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Urban and Industrial Environments
Zusatzinfo 60 figures; 60 Illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Recht / Steuern EU / Internationales Recht
Recht / Steuern Öffentliches Recht Umweltrecht
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-262-52880-0 / 0262528800
ISBN-13 978-0-262-52880-1 / 9780262528801
Zustand Neuware
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