Have you ever wanted to learn more about fighting for equality and justice in Appalachia and other geographical communities? Transforming Places, a newly released book edited by Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith, features stories of Appalachians harnessing their collective power to challenge corporate greed and oppression in favor of the best interest for their communities. In case you need another reason to buy the book, Chapter 12 is about Virginia Organizing! The table of contents is featured below. Check your favorite local bookseller for availability!
Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith, eds. TRANSFORMING PLACES: Lessons from Appalachia (University of Illinois Press, 2012)
Table of Contents
Preface
Invocation, Marta Maria Miranda
Introduction: Placing Appalachia, Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith
I. Go Tell It on the Mountains: Place, Identity, and Culture
1. Stop the Bombs: Local Organizing with Global Reach, Ralph Hutchison
2. RAIL Solution: Taking on Halliburton on the Home Front, Rees Shearer
3. This Land Is Your Land: Local Organizing and the Hegemony of Growth,
Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble
4. Identity Matters: Building an Urban Appalachian Movement in Cincinnati, Phillip J.
Obermiller, M. Kathryn Brown, Donna Jones, Michael E. Maloney, and Thomas E.
Wagner
5. Appalachian Youth Re-envisioning Home, Re-making Identities, Katie Richards-
Schuster and Rebecca O’Doherty
6. Resistance through Community-based Arts, Maureen Mullinax
II. Where No One Stands Alone: Bridging Divides
7. Organizing Appalachian Women: Hope Lies in the Struggle, Meredith Dean with
Edna Gulley and Linda McKinney
8. The Southern Empowerment Project: Homegrown Organizing Gone Too Soon, June
Rostan and Walter Davis
9. Center for Participatory Change: Cultivating Grassroots Support Organizing, Craig
White, Paul Castelloe, Molly Hemstreet, Yaira Andrea Arias Soto, and Jeannette Butterworth
10. Faith-based Coalitions and Organized Labor: New Forms of Collaboration in the 21st
Century? Jill Kriesky and Daniel Swan
11. Talking Union in Two Languages: Labor Rights and Immigrant Workers in East
Tennessee, Fran Ansley
III. Climbing Jacob’s Ladder: Scaling Up
12. Virginia Organizing: The Action Is at the State Level, Joe Szakos and Ladelle
McWhorter
13. OxyContin Flood in the Coalfields: ‘Searching for Higher Ground,’ Sue Ella Kobak
14. Not Your Grandmother’s Agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance’s Agrifood
Activism, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Lisa Markowitz, and Dwight B. Billings
15. Mountain Justice, Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Ryan Wishart, and Dave
Cooper
16. Who Knows? Who Tells? Creating a Knowledge Commons, Anita Puckett, Elizabeth
C. Fine, Mary Hufford, Ann Kingsolver, and Betsy Taylor
17. North and South: Struggles over Coal in Colombia and Appalachia, Aviva Chomsky
and Chad Montrie
18. Conclusion: Transformations in Place, Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher
List of Contributors
Index
