Transforming places [[electronic resource] ] : lessons from Appalachia / / edited by Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910785761403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Urbana : , : University of Illinois Press, , [2012]
• ISBN: 1-283-58268-6; 9786613895134; 0-252-09376-3
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Altri autori (Persone): FisherStephen L. <1944->; SmithBarbara Ellen <1951->
• Disciplina: 330.974
• Soggetti: Community organization - Appalachian Region; Social action - Appalachian Region; Political participation - Appalachian Region; Appalachian Region Social conditions
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.