Fighting King Coal: The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia

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Shannon Elizabeth Bell Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)

Fighting King Coal

The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia

Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)

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English

MIT Press
18 March 2016

Sociology: sexual relations; Environment law

Series: Urban and Industrial Environments

An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge.

In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory- why so few of the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution rise up to participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability. Using the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia as a case study, Bell investigates the challenges of micromobilization through in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis, geospatial viewshed analysis, and an eight-month ""Photovoice"" project-an innovative means of studying, in real time, the social dynamics affecting activist involvement in the region. Although the Photovoice participants took striking photographs and wrote movingly about the environmental destruction caused by coal production, only a few became activists. Bell reveals the importance of local identities to the success or failure of local recruitment efforts in social movement struggles, ultimately arguing that, if the local identities of environmental justice movements are lost, the movements may also lose their power.

By: Shannon Elizabeth Bell
Series edited by: Robert Gottlieb (Henry R. Luce Professor of Urban and Environmental Policy)
Imprint: MIT Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9780262528801
ISBN 10: 0262528800
Series: Urban and Industrial Environments
Pages: 344
Publication Date: 18 March 2016
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Shannon Elizabeth Bell is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Environmental Studies at the University of Kentucky. She is the author of Our Roots Run Deep as Ironweed- Appalachian Women and the Fight for Environmental Justice.

Winner of <PrizeName>Gold medal, 2016 Nautilus Book Awards, Journalism and Investigative Reporting category</PrizeName> 2017
Winner of <PrizeName>Winner, 2017 PROSE Awards, Sociology &#38; Social Work category</PrizeName> 2017
Winner of Gold medal, 2016 Nautilus Book Awards, Journalism and Investigative Reporting category</PrizeName> 2017
Winner of PROSE Awards: Sociology & Social Work 2017.
Winner of Winner, 2017 PROSE Awards, Sociology & Social Work category 2017