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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
1. Introduction: Place and Place-Making in Appalachia
2. Revisiting Appalachia, Revisiting Self
3. Carolina Chocolate Drops: Globalization and the Performative Expressions and Reception of Affrilachian Identity
4. Beyond ‚A Wife’s Perspective on Politics‘: One Woman’s Expression of Identity in Western North Carolina in the Post-War Period
5. Intersectionality and Appalachian Identity
6. Methods of Ethical, Community-Based Research: Documenting Strategy and Struggle in Everyday Urban Appalachia
7. Digital Rhetorics of Appalachia and the Cultural Studies Classroom
8. Continuity and Change for English Consonants in Appalachia
9. Frackonomics
10. Revisiting Appalachian Icons in the Production and Consumption of Tourist Art
11. From the Coal Mine to the Prison Yard: The Human Cost of Appalachia’s New Economy
12. Walking the Fence Line of The Crooked Road: Engaging in the Marketplace of Tourism while Empowering a Place-Based Civic Commons
13. No One’s Ever Talked to Us Before: Participatory Approaches and Economic Development in Rural Appalachian Communities
14. Strength in Numbers: FAHE
15. When Collaboration Leads to Action: Collecting and Making History in a Deep South State
16. Participation and Transformation in Appalachian Scholarship: Notes Toward an Instigation
17. Conclusion: (Re)Introduction: The Global Threads of Appalachian Studies
Über den Autor
Dr. Rebecca Adkins Fletcher is Associate Professor in the Department of Appalachian Studies, Assistant Director of the Center of Excellence for Appalachian Studies and Services, and an Associate Director of the Center for Cardiovascular Risks Research at East Tennessee State University. She is an Appalachian Regional Commission Appalachian Teaching Project fellow, Director of the Governor’s School for the Scientific Exploration of Tennessee Heritage, co-editor of the online magazine Appalachian Places: Stories from the Highlands and serves on the Journal of Appalachian Studies Editorial Board. She is co-editor of the book Appalachia Revisited: New Perspectives on Place, Tradition, and Progress.Ebooks vom selben Autor / Herausgeber
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