Appalachia Revisited New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress |
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| Editor:
| Schumann, William
Fletcher, Rebecca Adkins |
| Contribution by:
| Barbour-Payne, Yunina
Blackburn, Jessica
Daugherty, Jaclyn
Dorgan, Kelly
Duvall, Kathryn
Ezzell, Tim
Hazen, Kirk
Hutson, Sadie
Kant-Byers, Kristin
King, Jim
Loeffler, Diane
Lovejoy, Jordan
Ooten, Melissa
Puckett, Anita
Piser, Gabriel
Sawyer, Jason
Trauth Taylor, Kathryn |
| Series title: | Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8131-7441-9 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 2017 |
| Publisher: | University Press of Kentucky
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $28.00 |
Book Description:
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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...
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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.