By Rebecca R. Scott
ISBN-10: 0816665990
ISBN-13: 9780816665990
ISBN-10: 0816666008
ISBN-13: 9780816666003
In this wealthy ethnography of lifestyles in Appalachia, Scott examines mountaintop elimination in mild of controversy and protests from environmental teams calling for its abolishment. yet Removing Mountains takes the dialog in a brand new course, telling the tales of the businesspeople, miners, and households who think they depend upon the to outlive. Scott unearths those southern Appalachian coalfields as a significant panorama the place daily practices and representations aid form a community's courting to the environment.
Removing Mountains demonstrates that the ambiguity that faces this community-forced to smash their land to make a wage-raises vital questions similar not just to the surroundings but additionally to American nationwide identification, position, and white working-class masculinity.
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