Removing mountains [[electronic resource] ] : extracting nature and identity in the Appalachian coalfields / / Rebecca R. Scott
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Scott Rebecca R
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Removing mountains [[electronic resource] ] : extracting nature and identity in the Appalachian coalfields / / Rebecca R. Scott
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| Pubblicazione: | Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2010 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (289 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 333.8/220974 |
| Soggetto topico: | Coal mines and mining - Social aspects - Appalachian Region |
| Mountaintop removal mining - Social aspects - Appalachian Region | |
| Environmentalism - Appalachian Region | |
| Appalachians (People) | |
| Soggetto geografico: | Appalachian Region Social conditions |
| Appalachian Region Economic conditions | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: the logic of extraction -- Hillbillies and coal miners: representations of a national sacrifice zone -- Men moving mountains: coal mining masculinities and mountaintop removal -- The gendered politics of pro-mountaintop removal discourse -- ATVs in action: transgression, property rights, and tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy trail -- Coal heritage/coal history: Appalachia, America, and mountaintop removal -- Traces of history: "white" people, black coal -- Conclusion: coal facts. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Removing mountains |
| ISBN: | 0-8166-7532-5 |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910459548703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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