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Removing Mountains Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields 1st Edition by Rebecca R Scott ISBN 0816665990 9780816665990

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Author(s): Rebecca R. Scott
ISBN(s): 9780816665990, 0816665990
Edition: 1
File Details: PDF, 2.63 MB
Year: 2010
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0816665990

ISBN 13: 9780816665990 

Author: Rebecca R. Scott

A coal mining technique practiced in southern West Virginia known as mountaintop removal is drastically altering the terrain of the Appalachian Mountains. Peaks are flattened and valleys are filled as the coal industry levels thousands of acres of forest to access the coal, in the process turning the forest into scrubby shrublands and poisoning the water. This is dangerous and environmentally devastating work, but as Rebecca R. Scott shows in Removing Mountains, the issues at play are vastly complicated.

In this rich ethnography of life in Appalachia, Scott examines mountaintop removal in light of controversy and protests from environmental groups calling for its abolishment. But Removing Mountains takes the conversation in a new direction, telling the stories of the businesspeople, miners, and families who believe they depend on the industry to survive. Scott reveals these southern Appalachian coalfields as a meaningful landscape where everyday practices and representations help shape a community’s relationship to the environment.

Removing Mountains demonstrates that the paradox that faces this community-forced to destroy their land to make a wage-raises important questions related not only to the environment but also to American national identity, place, and white working-class masculinity.

Table of contents:

  1. The Logic of Extraction

  2. Representations of a National Sacrifice Zone

  3. Coal Mining Masculinities and Mountaintop Removal

  4. The Gendered Politics of Pro-Mountaintop Removal Discourse

  5. Transgression, Property Rights, and Tourism on the Hatfield-McCoy Trail

  6. Appalachia, America, and Mountaintop Removal

  7. White People, Black Coal

  8. Coal Facts

  9. Guide to Participants

  10. Notes

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