“Placing” Futures and Making Sense of Globalization on the Edge of Appalachia

Kingsolver, Ann E.

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“…Finally, the young adults in this study support the requirement that in any endeavor, the inclusion of diverse voices is critical (Drake, 2001;Eller, 2008;Fisher, 2013;Fisher & Smith, 2012;Kingsolver, 2018). Social workers have a responsibility to seek and lift up these voices, particularly those directly impacted by marginalization and injustice.…”

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confidence: 52%

“…Taken holistically, doing place fits with assertions that place is something learned (e.g., Cresswell, 2015) and enacted (e.g., Kingsolver, 2018). Building on this scaffolding, this section considers implications of this study's findings for teaching, learning, and action.…”

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confidence: 53%

“…cherishing and building from what is uniquely local, while also embracing and learning from differences and commonalities beyond the boundaries of a particular place (Kingsolver, 2018;Mitchell, 2014;Pickles, 2018;Rice& Burke, 2018;Smith, 2018). What is more, it acknowledges that, rather than being static geographic locations, all places have been shaped by forces at various scales over time (Cresswell, 2015;Rybczynaki, 2014;Williams, 2002).…”

Section: The Importance Of Placementioning

confidence: 99%

“…The concept of territoriality is critical to this study in that it assists in framing the tensions that arise within discourses about place and within plans to meet Appalachia's challenges. Including young adults in these conversations is an integral part of this process (Drake, 2001;Eller, 2008;Fisher, 2013;Fisher & Smith, 2012;Kingsolver, 2018). As such, territoriality is approached here as a form of contestation that arises not only about how to proceed in the present, but also how to remember and interpret the past and how to conceive of the potential future of a place (Milligan, 1998).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In concert, the results of this study provide a context specific illustration of how individuals are shaped by place and in turn, shape places (McInerney et la., 2011;Therborn, 2006). By emphasizing the action and agency embedded in this process, the 'doing' in doing place speaks to Kingsolver's (2018) insistence that in Appalachia, place is more verb than noun. This occurs through interactions within the multilayered and dynamic process of doing place (Figure 6; Saar & Palang, 2009;Seamon, 2014).…”

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Doing place : a framework for interpreting young adults' commitments to Appalachian Kentucky.

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Confronted with negative consequences of rural youth outmigration, many rural communities are interested in how to recruit and retain young adults. Yet, attention has largely been focused on those who leave. This study thus explores the experiences of young adults who make conscious commitments to improving the communities of Appalachian Kentucky despite many obstacles and pressures to leave. Two aims were established in this pursuit: 1) Understand and provide deep description of young adults' experience of committing to stay and work in Appalachian Kentucky and the meaning they make of these decisions and 2) Develop a context specific framework for interpretation of these decisions and processes as grounded in participant experience. Questions supporting and guiding these aims included: 1) What processes inform young adults' decisions to live and work in Appalachian Kentucky? 2) What strategies do young adults engage to maintain these commitments? And 3) How do young adults make meaning of these commitments? The nature of these questions warranted a qualitative approach designed to gain in depth understanding from individuals who have directly encountered these decisions and processes (Padgett, 2008). This study aimed at such an understanding by focusing on college educated young adults living in Appalachian Kentucky and working on social, environmental, vii and economic issues therein. The overall approach to the study was guided by Constructivist Grounded Theory, which included methods of participant observation, document review, and in-depth interviews with 30 young adults. Results include the development of three prominent processes identified in response to each study question, respectively: working out place, keeping peace in place, and connecting to the big picture. Combining these, a context specific framework titled doing place was developed to illustrate the dynamic process through which young adults came to understand, engage with, and ultimately transform Appalachian Kentucky. viii TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Revisiting power and powerlessness: Speculating on West Virginia’s energy future and the externalities of the socioecological fix

Harris

McCarthy

2020

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space

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China is positioning itself as a global leader in both renewable energy research, development, and deployment, and fossil fuel investment, exploration, and consumption. The newly merged mega-company, China Energy Investment Corp., has agreed to invest an unprecedented $83.7 billion into shale gas, power, and chemical projects in West Virginia. This decision comes after a visit to China by the United States’ President Trump, during which he secured professed commitments for over $250 billion in energy investments across the United States. While investment and dispossession in Appalachia have long been international in scope, the scale of this investment, as well as its particular political-historical context, makes this case unique. This paper analyzes two key processes central to this conjuncture in West Virginia’s recent history. First, building on recent scholarship, it argues that the ways in which the social and environmental costs of meeting China’s energy needs are increasingly being externalized into global “sacrifice zones” at global scales, even as China is making massive domestic investments in renewable energy, may constitute a sort of regional “socioecological fix” to the environmental effects of capitalist development. Second, via a consideration of Gaventa’s classic and more recent analyses of power and powerlessness in an Appalachian coal community, it explores why and how political assent to such development—which seems to reprise so many historical patterns that local critics decry—is secured in West Virginia. In doing so, it pays particular attention to the ways in which these familiar processes are playing out in a distinctive contemporary context, one characterized by a combination of populist and authoritarian politics that, in the United States, have touted false promises to “bring back coal” and rejuvenate a struggling local economy, and in China have led an authoritarian state to maintain economic growth for the nation at all costs.

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Something in These Hills

Coggeshall

2022

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What is the “something in these hills” that ties mountain families to family land in the southern Appalachians? This ethnographic examination challenges contemporary theory and explores two interrelated themes: the duality of the southern Appalachians as both a menacing and majestic landscape and the emotional relationship to family land characteristic of long-term residents of these mountains. To most outsiders, the area conjures images of a beautiful yet dangerous place, typified by the movie Deliverance. To long-term residents, these mountains have a fundamental emotional hold so powerful that many mourn the sale or loss of family land as if it were a deceased relative. How can the same geographical space be both? Using a carefully crafted cultural lens, John M. Coggeshall explains how family land anthropomorphizes, metaphorically becoming another member of kin groups. He establishes that this emotional sense of place existed prior to recent land losses, contrary to some contemporary scholars. Utilizing the voices and perspectives of long-term residents, the book provides readers with a more fundamental understanding of the “something in these hills” that holds people in place.

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“Placing” Futures and Making Sense of Globalization on the Edge of Appalachia

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Doing place : a framework for interpreting young adults' commitments to Appalachian Kentucky.

Doing place : a framework for interpreting young adults' commitments to Appalachian Kentucky.

Revisiting power and powerlessness: Speculating on West Virginia’s energy future and the externalities of the socioecological fix

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