Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters
Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters
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Abstract
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. That is certainly the case in Appalachian studies—a field that 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 Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters, the diverse ways in which place is invoked, the person who invokes it, and the reasons behind that invocation all matter greatly. In this collection, scholars and artists are assembled from a variety of disciplines to broaden the conversation. The book begins with chapters challenging conventional representations of Appalachia by exploring theoretically the relationships among regionalism, globalism, activism, and everyday experience. Other chapters examine, for example, foodways, depictions of Appalachian gendered and racialized identity in popular culture, the experiences of rural LGBTQ youth, and the pitfalls and promises of teaching regional studies. Poems by the 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, and literature, this volume furthers the exploration of new perspectives on one of America’s most compelling and misunderstood regions.
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Front Matter
- Introduction Place Matters
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“Placing” Futures and Making Sense of Globalization on the Edge of Appalachia
Ann E. Kingsolver
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Transforming Places: Toward a Global Politics of Appalachia
Barbara Ellen Smith
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Place, Autonomy, and the Politics of Hope
John Pickles
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The Power of Place and the Place of Power
John Gaventa
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“There Are No Gay People Here”: Expanding the Boundaries of Queer Youth Visibility in the Rural United States
Mary L. Gray
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Gathering Wild Greens: Foodways Lessons from Appalachia’s Past
Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt
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Buckwild Mad Men: Necropolitics and Masculinity in Appalachia
Carol Mason
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Reclaiming Place: Making Home
bell hooks
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Somewheres on the Track: Place, Art, and Music in Eastern Kentucky
Rich Kirby and others
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Teaching Region
Dwight B. Billings and others
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End Matter
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