Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South
University and Community Partnerships
- 284 pages
- English
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Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South
University and Community Partnerships
About this book
Throughout Appalachia corporations control local economies and absentee ownership of land makes it difficult for communities to protect their waterways, mountains, and forests. Yet among all this uncertainty are committed citizens who have organized themselves to confront both external power holders and often their own local, state, and federal agents. Determined to make their voice heard and to improve their living conditions, newfound partnerships between community activists and faculty and students at community colleges and universities have formed to challenge powerful bureaucratic infrastructures and to protect local ecosystems and communities. Confronting Ecological Crisis: University and Community Partnerships in Appalachia and the South addresses a wide range of cases that have presented challenges to local environments, public health, and social justice faced by the people of this region. Editors Stephanie McSpirit, Lynne Faltraco, and Conner Bailey, along with community leaders and their university partners, describe stories of unlikely unions between faculty, students, and Appalachian communities in which both sides learn from one another and, most importantly, form a unique alliance in the fight against corporate control. Confronting Ecological Crisis is a comprehensive look at the citizens and organizations that have emerged to fight the continued destruction of Appalachia.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half title
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction: Forging Partnerships between Communities and Academic Activists
- 1. Confessions of the Parasitic Researcher to the Man in the Cowboy Hat
- 2. What Difference Did It Make? The Appalachian Land Ownership Study after Twenty-Five Years
- 3. Participatory Action Research: Combating the Poisoning of Dayhoit, Harlan County
- 4. The Martin County Project: Students, Faculty, and Citizens Research the Effects of a Technological Disaster
- 5. Unsuitable: The Fight to Save Black Mountain, 1998–1999
- 6. Building Partnerships to Challenge Chip Mills: Citizen Activists Find Academic Allies
- 7. Environmental Justice from the Roots: Tillery, North Carolina
- 8. The Incineration of Chemical Weapons in Anniston, Alabama: The March for Environmental Justice
- 9. Expertise and Alliances: How Kentuckians Transformed the U.S. Chemical Weapons Disposal Program
- 10. Headwaters: A Student-Faculty Participatory Research Project in Eastern Kentucky
- 11. Social Theory, Appalachian Studies, and the Challenge of Global Regions: The UK Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship Program, 2001–2005
- Conclusion: Reflections on Public Scholarship in Appalachia and the South
- Acknowledgments
- List of Contributors
- Index