Appalachia Revisited: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Editat de William Schumann, Rebecca Adkins Fletcher Contribuţii de Yunina Barbour-Payneen Limba Engleză Paperback – 29 dec 2017
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.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0813174414
Pagini: 318
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 mm
Greutate: 0.47 kg
Editura: The University Press of Kentucky
Seria Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
Notă biografică
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.