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Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields (A Quadrant Book)
Rebecca R. Scott
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| #1144807 in Books | 2010-08-04 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x1.00 x5.50l,.75 | File type: PDF | 296 pages||4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.| really compelling!|By Scott Garson|What I'd say about this book: really great--compelling and smart and super-important.
It's a study of the cultural politics surrounding the environmentally destructive practice of mountaintop-removal coal mining in southern West Virginia.
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|"Rebecca R. Scott takes us into the coalfields, mining the cultural poetics that give rise to conflicts over the meaning and significance of this disturbing technology. Her careful excavations reveal the roles that gender, race, and class play in shap
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 You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Removing Mountains: Extracting Nature and Identity in the Appalachian Coalfields (A Quadrant Book) | Rebecca R. Scott. I really enjoyed this book and have already told so many people about it!
