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Coal, Cages, Crisis

Author : Judah Schept
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479888923
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Coal, Cages, Crisis written by Judah Schept and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-12 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How prisons became economic development strategies for rural Appalachian communities As the United States began the project of mass incarceration, rural communities turned to building prisons as a strategy for economic development. More than 350 prisons have been built in the U.S. since 1980, with certain regions of the country accounting for large shares of this dramatic growth. Central Appalachia is one such region; there are eight prisons alone in Eastern Kentucky. If Kentucky were its own country, it would have the seventh highest incarceration rate in the world. In Coal, Cages, Crisis, Judah Schept takes a closer look at this stunning phenomenon, providing insight into prison growth, jail expansion and rising incarceration rates in America’s hinterlands. Drawing on interviews, site visits, and archival research, Schept traces recent prison growth in the region to the rapid decline of its coal industry. He takes us inside this startling transformation occurring in the coalfields, where prisons are often built on top of old coalmines, including mountaintop removal sites, and built into community planning approaches to crises of unemployment, population loss, and declining revenues. By linking prison growth to other sites in this landscape—coal mines, coal waste, landfills, and incinerators—Schept shows that the prison boom has less to do with crime and punishment and much more with the overall extraction, depletion, and waste disposal processes that characterize dominant development strategies for the region. Schept argues that the future of this area now hangs in the balance, detailing recent efforts to oppose its carceral growth. Coal, Cages, Crisis offers invaluable insight into the complex dynamics of mass incarceration that continue to shape Appalachia and the broader United States.

A Natural History of the Central Appalachians

Author : Steven L. Stephenson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book A Natural History of the Central Appalachians written by Steven L. Stephenson and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Central Appalachian Periglacial Geomorphology

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Central Appalachian Periglacial Geomorphology written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Fighting King Coal

Author : Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262034344
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Fighting King Coal written by Shannon Elizabeth Bell and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-03-25 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contextualizing the Case : Central Appalachia --Micro-Level Processes and Social Movement Participation -- The Depletion of Social Capital in Coalfield Communities -- Identity and Environmental Justice Movement Participation -- Cognitive Liberation and Coal Industry Ideology -- Cognitive Liberation and Hidden Destruction in Central Appalachia -- Photovoice in Five Coalfield Communities -- Becoming, and Un-Becoming, an Activist.

So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969-1979

Author : Shaun Slifer
Publisher : West Virginia University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781949199932
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (999 download)

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Download or read book So Much to Be Angry About: Appalachian Movement Press and Radical DIY Publishing, 1969-1979 written by Shaun Slifer and published by West Virginia University Press. This book was released on 2021-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A richly produced, craft- and activist-centered celebration of radical DIY publishing, for readers of Appalachian Reckoning. In a remarkable act of recovery, So Much to Be Angry About conjures an influential but largely obscured strand in the nation's radical tradition--the "movement" printing presses and publishers of the late 1960s and 1970s, and specifically Appalachian Movement Press in Huntington, West Virginia, the only movement press in Appalachia. More than a history, this craft- and activist-centered book positions the frontline politics of the Appalachian Left within larger movements in the 1970s. As Appalachian Movement Press founder Tom Woodruff wrote: "Appalachians weren't sitting in the back row during this struggle, they were driving the bus." Emerging from the Students for a Democratic Society chapter at Marshall University, and working closely with organizer and poet Don West, Appalachian Movement Press made available an eclectic range of printed material, from books and pamphlets to children's literature and calendars. Many of its publications promoted the Appalachian identity movement and "internal colony" theory, both of which were cornerstones of the nascent discipline of Appalachian studies. One of its many influential publications was MAW, the first feminist magazine written by and for Appalachian women. So Much to Be Angry About combines complete reproductions of five of Appalachian Movement Press's most engaging publications, an essay by Shaun Slifer about his detective work resurrecting the press's history, and a contextual introduction to New Left movement publishing by Josh MacPhee. Amply illustrated in a richly produced package, the volume pays homage to the graphic sensibility of the region's 1970s social movements, while also celebrating the current renaissance of Appalachia's DIY culture--in many respects a legacy, Slifer suggests, of the movement publishing documented in his book.

The Southern Appalachians

Author : Susan L. Yarnell
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1428953736
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (289 download)

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Download or read book The Southern Appalachians written by Susan L. Yarnell and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1998 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bringing Down the Mountains

Author : Shirley Stewart Burns
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Bringing Down the Mountains written by Shirley Stewart Burns and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coal is West Virginia's bread and butter. For more than a century, West Virginia has answered the energy call of the nation--and the world--by mining and exporting its coal. In 2004, West Virginia's coal industry provided almost forty thousand jobs directly related to coal, and it contributed $3.5 billion to the state's gross annual product. And in the same year, West Virginia led the nation in coal exports, shipping over 50 million tons of coal to twenty-three countries. Coal has made millionaires of some and paupers of many. For generations of honest, hard-working West Virginians, coal has put food on tables, built homes, and sent students to college. But coal has also maimed, debilitated, and killed. Bringing Down the Mountains provides insight into how mountaintop removal has affected the people and the land of southern West Virginia. It examines the mechanization of the mining industry and the power relationships between coal interests, politicians, and the average citizen. Shirley Stewart Burns holds a BS in news-editorial journalism, a master's degree in social work, and a PhD in history with an Appalachian focus, from West Virginia University. A native of Wyoming County in the southern West Virginia coalfields and the daughter of an underground coal miner, she has a passionate interest in the communities, environment, and histories of the southern West Virginia coalfields. She lives in Charleston, West Virginia.

A History of Appalachia

Author : Richard B. Drake
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813137934
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book A History of Appalachia written by Richard B. Drake and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2003-09-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Drake has skillfully woven together the various strands of the Appalachian experience into a sweeping whole. Touching upon folk traditions, health care, the environment, higher education, the role of blacks and women, and much more, Drake offers a compelling social history of a unique American region. The Appalachian region, extending from Alabama in the South up to the Allegheny highlands of Pennsylvania, has historically been characterized by its largely rural populations, rich natural resources that have fueled industry in other parts of the country, and the strong and wild, undeveloped land. The rugged geography of the region allowed Native American societies, especially the Cherokee, to flourish. Early white settlers tended to favor a self-sufficient approach to farming, contrary to the land grabbing and plantation building going on elsewhere in the South. The growth of a market economy and competition from other agricultural areas of the country sparked an economic decline of the region's rural population at least as early as 1830. The Civil War and the sometimes hostile legislation of Reconstruction made life even more difficult for rural Appalachians. Recent history of the region is marked by the corporate exploitation of resources. Regional oil, gas, and coal had attracted some industry even before the Civil War, but the postwar years saw an immense expansion of American industry, nearly all of which relied heavily on Appalachian fossil fuels, particularly coal. What was initially a boon to the region eventually brought financial disaster to many mountain people as unsafe working conditions and strip mining ravaged the land and its inhabitants. A History of Appalachia also examines pockets of urbanization in Appalachia. Chemical, textile, and other industries have encouraged the development of urban areas. At the same time, radio, television, and the internet provide residents direct links to cultures from all over the world. The author looks at the process of urbanization as it belies commonly held notions about the region's rural character.

Daughters of the Mountain

Author : Suzanne E. Tallichet
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271030437
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Daughters of the Mountain written by Suzanne E. Tallichet and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2006-09-26 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written over the years about life in the coal mines of Appalachia. Not surprisingly, attention has focused mainly on the experiences of male miners. In Daughters of the Mountain, Suzanne Tallichet introduces us to a cohort of women miners at a large underground coal mine in southern West Virginia, where women entered the workforce in the late 1970s after mining jobs began opening up for women throughout the Appalachian coalfields. Tallichet's work goes beyond anecdotal evidence to provide complex and penetrating analyses of qualitative data. Based on in-depth interviews with female miners, Tallichet explores several key topics, including social relations among men and women, professional advancement, and union participation. She also explores the ways in which women adapt to mining culture, developing strategies for both resistance and accommodation to an overwhelmingly male-dominated world.

Black Huntington

Author : Cicero M Fain III
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252051432
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Black Huntington written by Cicero M Fain III and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How African Americans thrived in a West Virginia city By 1930, Huntington had become West Virginia's largest city. Its booming economy and relatively tolerant racial climate attracted African Americans from across Appalachia and the South. Prosperity gave these migrants political clout and spurred the formation of communities that defined black Huntington--factors that empowered blacks to confront institutionalized and industrial racism on the one hand and the white embrace of Jim Crow on the other. Cicero M. Fain III illuminates the unique cultural identity and dynamic sense of accomplishment and purpose that transformed African American life in Huntington. Using interviews and untapped archival materials, Fain details the rise and consolidation of the black working class as it pursued, then fulfilled, its aspirations. He also reveals how African Americans developed a host of strategies--strong kin and social networks, institutional development, property ownership, and legal challenges--to defend their gains in the face of the white status quo. Eye-opening and eloquent, Black Huntington makes visible another facet of the African American experience in Appalachia.

Development of Water Resources in Appalachia: Planning concepts and methods

Author : United States. Office of Appalachian Studies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (243 download)

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Download or read book Development of Water Resources in Appalachia: Planning concepts and methods written by United States. Office of Appalachian Studies and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes

Author : Paweł Rowiński
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319177192
Total Pages : 629 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book Rivers – Physical, Fluvial and Environmental Processes written by Paweł Rowiński and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-07-02 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the domain of research and investigation of physical, chemical and biological attributes of flowing water, and it deals with a cross-disciplinary field of study combining physical, geophysical, hydraulic, technological, environmental interests. It aims to equip engineers, geophysicists, managers working in water-related arenas as well as advanced students and researchers with the most up to date information available on the state of knowledge about rivers, particularly their physical, fluvial and environmental processes. Information from various but also interrelated areas available in one volume is the main benefit for potential readers. All chapters are prepared by leading experts from the leading research laboratories from all over the world.

Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation

Author : Cathryn H. Greenberg
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319215272
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (192 download)

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Download or read book Natural Disturbances and Historic Range of Variation written by Cathryn H. Greenberg and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-10-26 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses the historic range of variation (HRV) in the types, frequencies, severities and scales of natural disturbances, and explores how they create heterogeneous structure within upland hardwood forests of the Central Hardwood Region (CHR). The book was written in response to a 2012 forest planning rule which requires that national forests to be managed to sustain ‘ecological integrity’ and within the ‘natural range of variation’ of natural disturbances and vegetation structure. Synthesizing information on HRV of natural disturbance types, and their impacts on forest structure, has been identified as a top need.

Landslide Processes of the Eastern United States and Puerto Rico

Author : Arthur P. Schultz
Publisher : Geological Society of America
ISBN 13 : 0813722365
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (137 download)

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Download or read book Landslide Processes of the Eastern United States and Puerto Rico written by Arthur P. Schultz and published by Geological Society of America. This book was released on 1989 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

General Technical Report NRS

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book General Technical Report NRS written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Broiler Processing Plants

Author : Albert Wade Brant
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Guidelines for Establishing and Operating Broiler Processing Plants written by Albert Wade Brant and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Power and Powerlessness

Author : John Gaventa
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 9780252009853
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book Power and Powerlessness written by John Gaventa and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains to outsiders the conflicts between the financial interests of the coal and land companies and the moral rights of the vulnerable mountaineers.