Appalachia in Regional Context (eBook)

Place Matters

Dwight B. Billings, Ann E. Kingsolver (Herausgeber)

eBook Download: PDF

2017
264 Seiten
The University Press of Kentucky (Verlag)
978-0-8131-7533-1 (ISBN)

Infos

In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation and intolerance. In Appalachian studies, the diverse ways in which place is invoked, the person who invokes it, and the reasons behind that invocation all matter greatly.In Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters, Dwight B. Billings and Ann E. Kingsolver bring together voices from a variety of disciplines to broaden the conversation. The book begins with chapters challenging conventional representations of Appalachia by exploring the relationship between regionalism, globalism, activism, and everyday experience theoretically. Other chapters examine foodways, depictions of Appalachia in popular culture, and the experiences of rural LGBTQ youth. Poems by renowned social critic bell hooks interleave the chapters and add context to reflections on the region. Drawing on cultural anthropology, sociology, geography, media studies, political science, gender and women's studies, ethnography, social theory, art, music, literature and regional studies pedagogy, this volume furthers the exploration of new perspectives on one of America's most compelling and misunderstood regions.

Autor

lt;P>Dwight B. Billings is professor emeritus of sociology at the University of Kentucky. He is a past president of the Appalachian Studies Association, a recent editor of the Journal of Appalachian Studies, and the author or editor of several books.

Ann E. Kingsolver is professor of anthropology and past director of the Appalachian Center and Appalachian Studies Program at the University of Kentucky. She is the author or editor of seven books, including Tobacco Town Futures: Global Encounters in Rural Kentucky

Inhalt

Introduction: Place Matters'Placing' Futures and Making Sense of Globilization on the Edge of AppalachiaTransforming Places: Toward a Global Politics of AppalachiaPlaces, Autonomy, and the Politics of HopeThe Power of Place and the Place of Power'There Are No Gay People Here': Expanding the Boundaries of Queer Youth Visibility in the Rural United StatesGathering Wild Greens: Foodways Lessons from Appalachia's PastBuckwild Mad Men: Necropolitics and Masculinity in AppalachiaReclaiming Place: Making HomeSomewhere on the Track: Place, Art, and Music in Eastern KentuckyTeaching Region

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.3.2018
• Reihe/Serie: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies
• Zusatzinfo: 1 map, 14 b&w illustrations
• Verlagsort: Lexington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft ► Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Empirische Sozialforschung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: Agriculture • America • Appalachia • bell hooks • black appalachians • Capitalism • Civil Rights • coal • Diversity • Environmentalism • Globalism • inderdisciplinary perspective • Mining • Native Americans • Othering • Place • Poetry • Racism • Region • Regionalism • Social Justice • temporality
• ISBN-10: 0-8131-7533-X / 081317533X
• ISBN-13: 978-0-8131-7533-1 / 9780813175331