Combating Mountaintop Removal
New Directions in the Fight against Big Coal
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2011
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03643-9 (ISBN)
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-03643-9 (ISBN)
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A close ethnographic study of community activist group Coal River Mountain Watch
Drawing on powerful personal testimonies of the hazards of mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, Combating Mountaintop Removal critically examines the fierce conflicts over this violent and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining. Bryan T. McNeil documents the changing relationships among the coal industry, communities, environment, and economy from the perspective of local grassroots activist organizations and their broader networks. Focusing on Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW), an organization composed of individuals who have personal ties to the coal industry in the region, the study reveals a turn away from once-strong traditional labor unions and the emergence of community-based activist organizations. By framing social and moral arguments in terms of the environment, these innovative hybrid movements take advantage of environmentalism's higher profile in contemporary politics. In investigating the local effects of globalization and global economics, McNeil tracks the profound reimagining of social and personal ideas such as identity, history, and landscape and considers their roles in organizing an agenda for progressive community activism.
Drawing on powerful personal testimonies of the hazards of mountaintop removal in southern West Virginia, Combating Mountaintop Removal critically examines the fierce conflicts over this violent and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining. Bryan T. McNeil documents the changing relationships among the coal industry, communities, environment, and economy from the perspective of local grassroots activist organizations and their broader networks. Focusing on Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW), an organization composed of individuals who have personal ties to the coal industry in the region, the study reveals a turn away from once-strong traditional labor unions and the emergence of community-based activist organizations. By framing social and moral arguments in terms of the environment, these innovative hybrid movements take advantage of environmentalism's higher profile in contemporary politics. In investigating the local effects of globalization and global economics, McNeil tracks the profound reimagining of social and personal ideas such as identity, history, and landscape and considers their roles in organizing an agenda for progressive community activism.
Bryan T. McNeil is an assistant professor of anthropology at American University.
Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: The Worst Goddamn Thing I've Ever Seen 1: Welcome to Coal River; 2: Fighting Back ... Again; 3: What are we Fighting For? Part II: Banana Republic, Neoliberal Style 4: Strained Solidarities; 5: The Chase: 6: Whose Development is it? Part III: Symbolic Capital, the Commons, and Community Activism 7: Gender, Solidarity and Symbolic Capital; 8: Commons Environmentalism and Community Activism Conclusion: John Henry, Efficiency, and Community Appendix; Bibliography
| Verlagsort | Baltimore |
|---|---|
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Technik ► Bergbau | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-252-03643-3 / 0252036433 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-252-03643-9 / 9780252036439 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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