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Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters (Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies) by Barbara Ellen Smith; John Pickles; John Gaventa; Elizabeth Engelhardt; Carol A Mason; Mary L Gray; bell Hooks; Rich Kirby; Dwight B Billings; Ann E Kingsolver is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters (Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies) about?
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,
Who reads Appalachia in Regional Context: Place Matters (Place Matters: New Directions in Appalachian Studies)?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Barbara Ellen Smith; John Pickles; John Gaventa; Elizabeth Engelhardt; Carol A Mason; Mary L Gray; bell Hooks; Rich Kirby; Dwight B Billings; Ann E Kingsolver
- Publisher
- The University Press of Kentucky
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780813175676
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- History, Social Science, Humanities
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