Fighting king coal : the challenges to micromobilization in central Appalachia / Shannon Elizabeth Bell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bell, Shannon Elizabeth, author.

Series:

Urban and industrial environments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Environmental justice--West Virginia.

Environmental justice.

Environmental health--Social aspects--West Virginia.

Environmental health.

Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects--West Virginia.

Coal mines and mining.

Coal mines and mining--Health aspects--West Virginia.

Environmental degradation--Health aspects--West Virginia.

Environmental degradation.

Community activists--West Virginia.

Community activists.

Environmental degradation--Health aspects.

Coal mines and mining--Health aspects.

Coal mines and mining--Environmental aspects.

Environmental health--Social aspects.

West Virginia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In 'Fighting King Coal', Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory: why so few of the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution rise up to participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability.

Contents:

1 Contextualizing the Case: Central Appalachia 15

I Identifying the Barriers to Participation

2 Micro-Level Processes and Participation in Social Movements 39

3 Depletion of Social Capital in Coalfield Communities 49

4 Identity and Participation in the Environmental Justice Movement 75

5 Cognitive Liberation, Cultural Manipulation, and Friends of Coal 89

6 Cognitive Liberation and Hidden Destruction in Central Appalachia 109

7 Summary of Part I 119

II Creating a Micromobilization Context

8 Creating a Micromobilization Context through Photovoice 123

9 Photovoice in Five Coal-Mining Communities 147

10 Becoming, and Un-Becoming, an Activist 231.

Notes:

OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.

ISBN:

9780262333597

0262333597

OCLC:

944932387

Access Restriction:

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