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Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources,
Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic,
political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to
distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is
also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education,
drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and
controversial region has been examined by generations of scholars,
activists, and civil servants -- all offering an array of
perspectives on Appalachia and its people. In this innovative
volume, editors William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
assemble both scholars and nonprofit practitioners to examine how
Appalachia is perceived both within and beyond its borders.
Together, they investigate the region's transformation and analyze
how it is currently approached as a topic of academic inquiry.
Arguing that interdisciplinary and comparative place-based studies
increasingly matter, the contributors investigate numerous topics,
including race and gender, environmental transformation,
university-community collaborations, cyber identities, fracking,
contemporary activist strategies, and analyze Appalachia in the
context of local-to-global change. A pathbreaking study analyzing
continuity and change in the region through a global framework,
Appalachia Revisited is essential reading for scholars and students
as well as for policymakers, community and charitable organizers,
and those involved in community development.
Known for its dramatic beauty and valuable natural resources,
Appalachia has undergone significant technological, economic,
political, and environmental changes in recent decades. Home to
distinctive traditions and a rich cultural heritage, the area is
also plagued by poverty, insufficient healthcare and education,
drug addiction, and ecological devastation. This complex and
controversial region has been examined by generations of scholars,
activists, and civil servants -- all offering an array of
perspectives on Appalachia and its people. In this innovative
volume, editors William Schumann and Rebecca Adkins Fletcher
assemble both scholars and nonprofit practitioners to examine how
Appalachia is perceived both within and beyond its borders.
Together, they investigate the region's transformation and analyze
how it is currently approached as a topic of academic inquiry.
Arguing that interdisciplinary and comparative place-based studies
increasingly matter, the contributors investigate numerous topics,
including race and gender, environmental transformation,
university-community collaborations, cyber identities, fracking,
contemporary activist strategies, and analyze Appalachia in the
context of local-to-global change. A pathbreaking study analyzing
continuity and change in the region through a global framework,
Appalachia Revisited is essential reading for scholars and students
as well as for policymakers, community and charitable organizers,
and those involved in community development.
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