Appalachia Revisited (eBook)

New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress

William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
318 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-6698-8 (ISBN)

Infos

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 servantsall 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.

Autor

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.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Place and Place-Making in Appalachia
2. Revisiting Appalachia, Revisiting Self
3. Carolina Chocolate Drops: Globalization and the Performative Expressions and Reception of Affrilachian Identity
4. Beyond 'A Wife's Perspective on Politics': One Woman's Expression of Identity in Western North Carolina in the Post-War Period
5. Intersectionality and Appalachian Identity
6. Methods of Ethical, Community-Based Research: Documenting Strategy and Struggle in Everyday Urban Appalachia
7. Digital Rhetorics of Appalachia and the Cultural Studies Classroom
8. Continuity and Change for English Consonants in Appalachia
9. Frackonomics
10. Revisiting Appalachian Icons in the Production and Consumption of Tourist Art
11. From the Coal Mine to the Prison Yard: The Human Cost of Appalachia's New Economy
12. Walking the Fence Line of The Crooked Road: Engaging in the Marketplace of Tourism while Empowering a Place-Based Civic Commons
13. No One's Ever Talked to Us Before: Participatory Approaches and Economic Development in Rural Appalachian Communities
14. Strength in Numbers: FAHE
15. When Collaboration Leads to Action: Collecting and Making History in a Deep South State
16. Participation and Transformation in Appalachian Scholarship: Notes Toward an Instigation
17. Conclusion: (Re)Introduction: The Global Threads of Appalachian Studies

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 22.7.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
• Reihe/Serie: 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
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• 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