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Removing mountains : extracting nature and identity in the Appalachian coalfields / Rebecca R. Scott.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Scott, Rebecca R.
- Series:
- A Quadrant Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Coal mines and mining--Social aspects--Appalachian Region.
- Coal mines and mining.
- Mountaintop removal mining--Social aspects--Appalachian Region.
- Mountaintop removal mining.
- Environmentalism--Appalachian Region.
- Environmentalism.
- Appalachians (People).
- Appalachian Region--Social conditions.
- Appalachian Region.
- Appalachian Region--Economic conditions.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2010.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the logic of extraction
- Hillbillies and coal miners: representations of a national sacrifice zone
- Men moving mountains: coal mining masculinities and mountaintop removal
- The gendered politics of pro-mountaintop removal discourse
- ATVs in action: transgression, property rights, and tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy trail
- Coal heritage/coal history: Appalachia, America, and mountaintop removal
- Traces of history: "white" people, black coal
- Conclusion: coal facts.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-7532-5
- OCLC:
- 676695864
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