Combating mountaintop removal
Subtitle: new directions in the fight against big coal
By: Bryan T. McNeil
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 204
ISBN-13: 9780252036439
Subjects: Community activists; Landscape protection; Citizen participation; Environmentalists; Coal mines and mining; Mountaintop removal mining
Description: "Critically examining the fierce conflicts over an intense and increasingly prevalent form of strip mining, [this book] documents the changing relationships among te coal industry, communities, environment, and economy from the perspective of local grassroots activist organizations and their broader networks. Drawing on ... testimonies of the hazrds of mountaintop removal in Boone County, Virginia, ... McNeil shows how Appalachian community coalitions have fostered important connections in their opposition to coal mining practices. ..."--Book jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Welcome to coal river; title: Fighting back; title: again; title: What are we fighting for?; title: Strained solidarities; title: The chase; title: Whose development is it?; title: Gender, solidarity, and symbolic capital; title: Commons environmentalism and community activism.