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Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields

Rebecca R. Scott

9780816666003

University of Minnesota Press


Social groups; Human geography; Environmental science, engineering & technology

Paperback

296 pages

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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. <br> 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. <br> 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.

By:   Rebecca R. Scott
Imprint:   University of Minnesota Press
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 20mm,  Width: 216mm,  Spine: 140mm
Weight:   340g
ISBN:  

9780816666003


ISBN 10:   0816666008
Series:   Quadrant Book
Pages:   296
Publication Date:   August 2010
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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