Removing Mountains : Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

Name: Removing Mountains
Brand: University of Minnesota Press
SKU: 9780816666003
Price: 3800 KES
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ISBN: 9780816666003

by Rebecca R. Scott

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Format Paperback / softback

Book Series A Quadrant Book

ISBN-10 0816666008

ISBN-13 9780816666003

Publisher University of Minnesota Press

Imprint University of Minnesota Press

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Aug 4th, 2010

Print length 296 Pages

Weight 334 grams

Dimensions 21.00 x 13.90 x 1.70 cms

Product Classification: Human geography Environmental science, engineering & technology Environmental science, engineering and technology

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An ethnography of coal country in southern West Virginia.

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.

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