Summary

In a remarkable act of recovery, So Much to Be Angry About conjures an influential but largely obscured strand in the nation’s radical tradition—the “movement” printing presses and publishers of the late 1960s and 1970s, and specifically Appalachian Movement Press in Huntington, West Virginia, the only movement press in Appalachia. More than a history, this craft- and activist-centered book positions the frontline politics of the Appalachian Left within larger movements in the 1970s. As Appalachian Movement Press founder Tom Woodruff wrote: “Appalachians weren’t sitting in the back row during this struggle, they were driving the bus.”

Emerging from the Students for a Democratic Society chapter at Marshall University, and working closely with organizer and poet Don West, Appalachian Movement Press made available an eclectic range of printed material, from books and pamphlets to children’s literature and calendars. Many of its publications promoted the Appalachian identity movement and “internal colony” theory, both of which were cornerstones of the nascent discipline of Appalachian studies. One of its many influential publications was MAW, the first feminist magazine written by and for Appalachian women.

So Much to Be Angry About combines complete reproductions of five of Appalachian Movement Press’s most engaging publications, an essay by Shaun Slifer about his detective work resurrecting the press’s history, and a contextual introduction to New Left movement publishing by Josh MacPhee. Amply illustrated in a richly produced package, the volume pays homage to the graphic sensibility of the region’s 1970s social movements, while also celebrating the current renaissance of Appalachia’s DIY culture—in many respects a legacy, Slifer suggests, of the movement publishing documented in his book.

Contents

Prologue: Digging for Appalachian Movement Press

Introduction: A Brief History of the Movement Printshop in the United States
Josh MacPhee

Part I: The Press

Part II: In Print

Hillbilly Ain’t Beautiful: Jim Branscome’s Annihilating the Hillbilly
 

In a World of Plenty We’re Hungry as Hell! Songs for Southern Workers: Don West and the Kentucky Workers Alliance
 

I Know All the Trout by Their First Names, Every Tree by Its Shape of Leaf: Margaret Gregg and Michael J. Clark’s Lazar & Boone Stop Strip Mining Bully
 

Surrounded on All Sides by the Slavocracy: Don West’s Freedom on the Mountains
 

Simply Wiped Off the Map: Davitt McAteer and Thomas N. Bethell’s The Pittston Mentality: Manslaughter at Buffalo Creek

Epilogue

Acknowledgments

Appendix: An Appalachian Movement Press Bibliography

Notes

Bibliography

Illustration Credits

Index

Author

Shaun Slifer is an artist, writer, and museum professional based in Pittsburgh. He is the creative director at the West Virginia Mine Wars Museum and a founding member of the Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative.

Reviews

“So Much to Be Angry About is an example of the best impulses of people’s history, careful and caring in its attention to people and places, disposing of nothing, casting a loving and critical eye and turning over stones, not just of movement history and its ideas, but also of the labor of the craftspeople, artists, and makers whose work spurs us on but sometimes goes without examination. I love how this book traces generational knowledge, complete with lessons, pitfalls, dynamism, and complication for those of us currently making and joining community, art, and resistance in Appalachia.”
Madeline ffitch, author of Stay and Fight

“The Appalachian Movement Press has been an inspiration for almost everything we do. An activist press focused on labor and art, and it was based in West Virginia? That’s something we all need to hear about! Especially anyone unpacking the region’s deep history of exploitation.”
Dwight and Liz Pavlovic, founders, Crash Symbols

“This is a history of Appalachian Movement Press and also a fascinating look into Appalachian history, regional radical politics, and print history. The fire of creation can be passed down through books like So Much to Be Angry About, and maybe this retelling of AMP’s story could spark something else like it down the line.”
Lucas Church, University of North Carolina Press

“Back before activists used viral memes to reach the masses, the rebels at Appalachian Movement Press used any means necessary to keep their presses running and get information into the hands of all people. I was captivated by the untold story of these scrappy Appalachians who were determined to spread regional pride and history, and who were also completely uninterested in money or fame.”
Betsy Sokolosky, owner, Base Camp Printing Co.

“A respectful and rigorous account of the Appalachian Movement Press and the regional context that created it.”
Anarchist Review of Books

“Wonderfully weighty with full-color pages of high-quality photos. . . . A great foundational book.”
Journal of Appalachian Studies

Summary

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR

Ghosts of New York is a novel in which the laws of time and space have been subtly suspended. It interweaves four strands: a photographer newly returned to the neighborhood where she grew up, after years spent living overseas; a foundling raised on 14th Street; a graduate student, his romantic partner, and his best friend entangled in a set of relationships with far-reaching personal and political repercussions; and a shopkeeper suffering from first love late in life. Mixing prophecy, history, and a hint of speculative fiction, its stories are bound together even as they are propelled into stranger territory. And undergirding it all is a song, which appears, disappears, and then resurfaces.

Ghosts of New York explores complex lives through indelible renderings of settings—a bar, a night market, a recording studio—that alternate between familiar and unsettling. The work of a celebrated novelist and veteran of the art, film, and music scenes in New York and Austin (described as “a rare talent” by the New York Times and “a powerful literary voice” by Jeffrey Eugenides), this novel will immediately absorb readers intrigued by creative people and the places that sustain and challenge them.

Author

Jim Lewis lives in Austin and is the author of three novels, which have been translated into many languages: Sister, Why the Tree Loves the Ax, and The King Is Dead. He has also written criticism, reportage, and essays for the New York Times, Slate, Rolling Stone, Granta, and others, and he collaborated with Larry Clark on the story for the movie Kids.

Reviews

“A wondrous novel, with prose that sparkles like certain sidewalks after rain. . . . That’s it, I thought. That’s exactly what it’s like to live in New York.”
New York Times Book Review

“A collection of connected stories that is so imbued with the city in which it’s set that it could not possibly have taken place anywhere else.”
San Francisco Chronicle

“A masterful tapestry created through the interwoven lives of some of New York’s disparate, imperfect, and vulnerable souls, and set against the backdrop of a city that is a character unto itself: chameleonic, contradictory, hallucinatory yet visceral, fiercely wanting yet fiercely self-protective.”
Richard Price, author of Lush Life

“Jim Lewis is one of my favorite writers. He’s an exquisite stylist with an unsparing eye. In Ghosts of New York, he reveals the city to us through both a magnifying glass and a prism, bringing all facets of it into light. A marvelous novel.”
Rabih Alameddine, author of The Angel of History and An Unnecessary Woman

“Jim Lewis sees like a photographer and writes like an avenging angel.”
Sally Mann, author of Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

“Ghosts of New York is an intricate cat’s cradle of life trajectories and a beautifully vulnerable work of fiction.”
Jardine Libaire, author of White Fur

“Reads like a striking literary version of the movie My Dinner with Andre. . . . The writing is beautiful, crisp, and keen-eyed.”
Kirkus Reviews

“In Jim Lewis’s wondrous novel Ghosts of New York, encounters among strangers result in unexpected relationships and a montage that celebrates a city of manifold graces. . . . A subtle, dexterous novel.”
Foreword Reviews

“Lewis is a master at painting developed characters captured in various moments in time. . . . The lyrical narration is continuously engaging, especially as the episodic stories begin to interlace.”
—Booklist

Summary

At the heart of American Vaudeville is one strange, unsettling fact: for nearly fifty years, from the late nineteenth century to the 1930s, vaudeville was everywhere—then, suddenly, it was nowhere. This book tells the story of what was once the most popular form of entertainment in the country using lists, creation myths, thumbnail biographies, dreams, and obituaries. A lyric history—part social history, part song—American Vaudeville sits at the nexus between poetry, experimental nonfiction, and, because it includes historic images, art books.

Geoffrey Hilsabeck’s book grows out of extensive archival research. Rather than arranging that research—the remains of vaudeville—into a realistic picture or tidy narrative, Hilsabeck dreams vaudeville back into existence, drawing on photographs, letters, joke books, reviews, newspaper stories, anecdotes, and other material gathered from numerous archives, as well as from memoirs by vaudeville performers like Buster Keaton, Eva Tanguay, and Eddie Cantor. Some of this research is presented as-is, a letter from a now forgotten vaudeville performer to her booking agent, for example; some is worked up into brief scenes and biographies; and some is put to even more imaginative uses, finding new life in dialogues and prose poems.

American Vaudeville pulls the past into the present and finds in the beauty and carnivalesque grotesqueness of vaudeville a fitting image of American life today.

Contents

Foreword

Creation Myths
Vanishing Act
Just What Was Vaudeville?
At the Wonderland
Dreamsweat
Jacks-in-the-Pew
Bright Particular Star
The Jonah Man
The Muting of the Strings
Obituaries and Obsolescencies
The Playhouse
History

Acknowledgments
Notes
Sources
Illustration Credits

Author

Geoffrey Hilsabeck is the author of the poetry collection Riddles, Etc. His poems and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, the Believer, Paris Review Daily, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Reviews

“Hilsabeck is intuitive, canny, penetrating, and wise, and he has absorbed and can play all the tones in the vast calliope of the American language. American Vaudeville is a short book, but it is dense with evocation, each sentence expanding to fill the room. You will read it more than once.”
From the foreword by Luc Sante

“Hilsabeck’s essays excavate vaudeville’s archival remains, reveling in its greasepaint and slap shoes, boas and tightropes. He does not shy away from vaudeville’s ranker bits—its controlling monopolies and its racism and the ways it could, and did, devour its own. But neither does he short-sell its beauty. Rather, in these pages, transcendent artifice and wonderment ride in tandem with the tragic and tawdry, and all of it is shot through with the gloriously absurd. One comes away from Hilsabeck’s deeply researched work with a sense of history as spectacle, and spectacle as history. Like the stages that are his concern, Hilsabeck’s linked, lyric essays ‘would tell the story of America to America’—‘what we were, which is what we are.’ ”
Tina Post, University of Chicago

“Geoffrey Hilsabeck recounts the often bizarre details of vaudeville, the most popular live entertainment in the United States at the turn of the twentieth century, and, more importantly, he evokes the feeling of this eclectic, rapid-fire amusement. Hilsabeck gives vaudeville new life, from its physical immediacy to its ethereal reach.”
M. Alison Kibler, author of Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, 1890–1930

“Hilsabeck brings the seedy, magical world to life while unraveling its sudden death.”
Broadway Direct

Summary

“It seems like everybody but people from here are sure about what we’re about, and they make money being wrong about it.” The residents of Labor County, a fictional small community in the mountains of southeastern Kentucky, may be short on cash, but they are rich in creativity and tirelessly inventive as they concoct new schemes to make ends meet, settle old scores, and work off their debts to society and, in a way, to themselves.

A zealous history professor is caught stealing from the local museum in protest of petty theft; an arsonist strikes it lucky—twice; a skilled leatherworker saddles a turkey and finds a rider; an angel aspires to be a punk rock Roller Derby princess; a grieving artist carves a miracle into a roadside rock face; and affable Uncle Archie produces a seemingly unending supply of new and bizarre items to display in his Odditorium.

More than a collection of tales, Working It Off in Labor County assembles memorable characters who recur across these seventeen linked stories, sharing in one another’s struggles and stumbling upon humor and mystery, the grotesque and the divine, each in many forms.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Working It Off in Labor County
Hot Ticket
Day of the Dead Diner, Home of Juan D’s Best BBQ
Brotherhood of the Mystic Hand
Uncle Archie’s Acquisition
The Hard Thing
Riding Shotgun with Dory
Uncle Archie’s Underground Reunion
The Art of Grief
Benny and the Hill’s Angels
No Dumping
Hollow of the Dolls
Uncle Archie Goes One for Three
The Clown Brothers Eller
About Levi
The New Exhilarist
The Work

Author

Larry D. Thacker is a Kentuckian writer and artist living in Johnson City, Tennessee. He is the author of the paranormal folk history Mountain Mysteries, two chapbooks, and four full poetry collections. He holds an MFA in poetry and fiction from West Virginia Wesleyan College. Visit his website at www.larrydthacker.com.

Reviews

“There’s a country song on every page. . . . These characters want out, want in, yearn for some luck, lose whatever fortunes appear in their lives. This collection’s a keeper, worthy of shelf space between Larry Brown and Merle Haggard.”
George Singleton, author of You Want More: Selected Stories

“Energetic, humorous, and full of heart. Thacker’s voice feels fresh and alive.”
Jonathan Corcoran, author of The Rope Swing

“Thacker’s linked collection is a carnival ride of southern gothic tales and freak-show oddities. . . . Hilarious, yes, but it’s also a thoughtful exploration of the residents of Labor County, Kentucky, who are desperate to pull meaning out of loss.”
Marie Manilla, author of The Patron Saint of Ugly

“Larry Thacker’s stories have bark, but they also have bite. These Labor County people aren’t real, I keep telling myself that. They are just figments a writer made up in his head. But when you come away from this book, you’ll feel that you’ve encountered a cast of characters who are going to stay with you—like newfound kin or a bad feeling in the bottom of your brain. Thacker writes like a wild man with a mean streak, breaking your tired heart all along the way.”
Charles Dodd White, author of How Fire Runs and In the House of Wilderness

“A rollicking portrayal of small-town Kentucky life . . . unified by strong narrative drive and well-crafted prose. Fans of George Singleton will love this.”
Publishers Weekly

Summary

Renée Nicholson’s professional training in ballet had both moments of magnificence and moments of torment, from fittings of elaborate platter tutus to strange language barriers and unrealistic expectations of the body. In Fierce and Delicate, she looks back on the often confused and driven self she had been shaped into—always away from home, with friends who were also rivals, influenced by teachers in ways sometimes productive and at other times bordering on sadistic—and finds beauty in the small roles she performed. When, inevitably, Nicholson moved on from dancing, severed from her first love by illness, she discovered that she retained the lyricism and narrative of ballet itself as she negotiated life with rheumatoid arthritis.

An intentionally fractured memoir-in-essays, Fierce and Delicate navigates the traditional geographies of South Florida, northern Michigan, New York City, Milwaukee, West Virginia, and also geographies of the body—long, supple limbs; knee replacements; remembered bodies and actual. It is a book about the world of professional dance and also about living with chronic disease, about being shattered yet realizing the power to assemble oneself again, in a new way.

Contents

Part I
A Girl Who Wanted to Fly
When I Was a Mouse
Five Positions
Never Famous
Raked Stages: A Twelve-Step Program
Coda: Partnering
Out of the Blue

Part II
A Woman Tethered to the Earth
Hair: A Short History
In Sickness
A Royal in Appalachia
Certified: Dancer Becomes a Teacher
Claque
Fierce and Delicate
Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast

Acknowledgments

Author

Renée K. Nicholson is the author of two poetry collections, Roundabout Directions to Lincoln Center and Post Script, and coeditor of the anthology Bodies of Truth: Stories of Illness, Disability, and Medicine. The former director of the humanities center at West Virginia University, she is the series editor for the Connective Tissue Series.

Reviews

“Lyrical and fascinating.”
Buzzfeed News

“An elegant collection of essays from a dancer’s soul that will uplift all readers, especially those who love dance.”
Library Journal

“Many dancers wrestle with one of the central questions of Renée Nicholson’s fabulous book: How does one live as an ex-dancer? The answers Nicholson explores will strongly resonate with those who long to lift the veil that shrouds creative pursuits in unnecessary mystique. I love Nicholson’s powerful prose: how the essays circle in and out of dance, the way movement comes alive on the page, and the articulate grace with which Nicholson writes about sudden disability. In Fierce and Delicate, Nicholson teaches us how to envelop our impossible dreams with gratitude for the life we have now.”
Renée E. D’Aoust, author of Body of a Dancer

“Renée Nicholson writes with the grace, determination, and, yes, fierceness needed to succeed in the world of professional dance, so it is no surprise that Fierce and Delicate is such a remarkable and en pointe memoir-in-essays, as breathtaking and beautiful as ballet itself. Nicholson’s voice blends absolute honesty with a lovely, lyrical descriptive style, and each essay is a pure pleasure to read. Bravo!”
Dinty W. Moore, author of Between Panic and Desire

Summary

2022 Nautilus Book Award, Social Sciences and Education, Silver

Starting from new research on the body—aptly summarized as “sitting is the new smoking”—Minding Bodies aims to help instructors improve their students’ knowledge and skills through physical movement, attention to the spatial environment, and sensitivity to humans as more than “brains on sticks.” It shifts the focus of adult learning from an exclusively mental effort toward an embodied, sensory-rich experience, offering new strategies to maximize the effectiveness of time spent learning together on campus as well as remotely.

Minding Bodies draws from a wide range of body/mind research in cognitive psychology, kinesiology, and phenomenology to bring a holistic perspective to teaching and learning. The embodied learning approaches described by Susan Hrach are inclusive, low-tech, low-cost strategies that deepen the development of disciplinary knowledge and skills. Campus change-makers will also find recommendations for supporting a transformational mission through an attention to students’ embodied learning experiences.
 

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Contents

Preface: No More Brains on Sticks

Introduction: How Bodies Affect the Learning Process

Part One
Awaken the Senses
1. Optimize the Classroom
2. Take It Outside

Part Two
Leverage the Body for Learning
3. Interrogate Sensory Perceptions
4. Learn to Move, Move to Learn

Part Three
Break through Boundaries
5. Move around Together
6. Embrace Discomfort

Acknowledgments
References
Index

Author

Susan Hrach is director of the faculty center and professor of English at Columbus State University. Winner of the University System of Georgia Regents’ Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award, she is widely recognized for her innovations in teaching world literature.

Reviews

“For too long, faculty have only focused on the education of the mind, ignoring the importance of the body in that process. Susan Hrach’s book conveys an authentic sense of wonder and excitement about the topic, and it is a timely and relevant text for higher education faculty.”
Kathryn Byrnes, Bowdoin College

“Beautifully written and packed full of ideas, Minding Bodies is a timely and necessary intervention that questions our long-held assumptions about sedentary teaching and learning. There is something that will enlighten any teacher on every page. This is a welcome book that is trying its best to get education back on its feet.” 
Vybarr Cregan-Reid, author of Primate Change: How the World We Made Is Remaking Us

Summary

Smartphones, laptops, tablets: college students are reading on-screen all the time, and digital devices shape students’ understanding of and experiences with reading. In higher education, however, teachers rarely consider how digital reading experiences may have an impact on learning abilities, unless they’re lamenting students’ attention spans or the distractions available to students when they’re learning online.

Skim, Dive, Surface offers a corrective to these conversations—an invitation to focus not on losses to student learning but on the spectrum of affordances available within digital learning environments. It is designed to help college instructors across the curriculum teach digital reading in their classes, whether they teach face-to-face, fully online, or somewhere in between. Placing research from cognitive psychology, neuroscience, learning science, and composition in dialogue with insight from the scholarship of teaching and learning, Jenae Cohn shows how teachers can better frame, scaffold, and implement effective digital reading assignments. She positions digital reading as part of a cluster of literacies that students should develop in order to communicate effectively in a digital environment.
 

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Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Why Teach Digital Reading?

Part 1. Skim
Understanding Historical, Affective, and Neurological Perspectives on Reading Technologies
1. The Chained Book: A Historical Overview of Reading Technology in Higher Education
2. The Held Book: How Our Feelings for Books Impact How We Teach Reading
3. The Brain on Books: What the Neuroscience of Reading Can Tell Us about Reading on Screens

Part 2. Dive
Exploring the Digital Reading Framework to Promote Deep Reading Practices
An Introduction to the Digital Reading Framework: Curation, Connection, Creativity, Contextualization, Contemplation
4. Curation
5. Connection
6. Creativity
7. Contextualization
8. Contemplation

Part 3. Surface
Critically Approaching the Adoption and Use of Digital Reading Technologies
9. The Ethical Implications of Digital Reading: Grappling with Digital Archiving, Readerly Privacy, and Evidence of Our Reading
Conclusion: Principles, Practices, and Futures for Digital Reading

Appendix: Tools for Digital Reading
References
Index

Author

Jenae Cohn writes and speaks about teaching and learning in digital spaces. She works as the director of academic technology at California State University, Sacramento. Find more at www.jenaecohn.net.

Reviews

“An important, accessible contribution to conversations about digital reading.”
Ellen Carillo, author of MLA Guide to Digital Literacy

Summary

James Tyner reinterprets the place of agriculture under the Khmer Rouge, positioning it in new ways relative to Marxism, capitalism, and genocide. The Cambodian revolutionaries’ agricultural management is widely viewed by critics as irrational and dangerous, and it is invoked as part of wider efforts to discredit leftist movements. Researching the specific functioning of Cambodia’s transition from farms to agriculture within the context of the global economy, Tyner comes to a different conclusion. He finds that analysis of “actually existing political economy”—as opposed to the Marxist identification the Khmer Rouge claimed—points to overlap between Cambodian practice and agrarian capitalism.

Tyner argues that dissolution of the traditional Khmer family farm under the aegis of state capitalism is central to any understanding of the mass violence unleashed by the Khmer Rouge. Seen less as a radical outlier than as part of a global shift in farming and food politics, the Cambodian tragedy imparts new lessons to our understanding of the political economy of genocide.

Contents

Preface
Acknowledgments

1. “Revolution Is the People’s War”
2. “Be Masters of Your Own Destiny!”
3. “We Are Building Socialism in the Cooperatives”
4. “Currency Is a Most Poisonous Tool”

Epilogue

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Author

James A. Tyner is a professor of geography at Kent State University and a fellow of the American Association of Geographers. He is the author of numerous books, including War, Violence, and Population: Making the Body Count, which received the AAG Meridian Book Award for Outstanding Scholarly Work in Geography, and The Politics of Lists: Bureaucracy and Genocide under the Khmer Rouge (WVU Press).

Reviews

“James Tyner has a gift for conveying complex subjects in a direct and accessible style, and his book will make a real contribution to the field of genocide studies generally, and to the study of the Cambodian genocide more specifically.”
Alex Alvarez, author of Unstable Ground: Climate Change, Conflict, and Genocide

“This original study will appeal to scholars interested in the agrarian policies of revolutionary governments and the alternative historical geographies of capitalism.”
Choice

“A relatively thin book, but it is an important one for scholars interested in Cambodian genocide and genocide studies more broadly. . . . Red Harvests adds important and novel explanations for this mass violence that the existing accounts, including Hinton’s, have overlooked.”
Agricultural History

Summary

Feminist Geography Unbound is a call to action—to expand imaginations and to read and travel more widely and carefully through terrains that have been cast as niche, including Indigenous and decolonial feminisms, Black geographies, and trans geographies. The original essays in this collection center three themes to unbind and enable different feminist futures: discomfort as a site where differences generate both productive and immobilizing frictions, gendered and racialized bodies as sites of political struggle, and the embodied work of building the future.

Drawing on diverse theoretical backgrounds and a range of field sites, contributors consider how race, gender, citizenship, and class often determine who feels comfort and who is tasked with producing it. They work through bodies as terrains of struggle that make claims to space and enact political change, and they ask how these politics prefigure the futures that we fear or desire. The book also champions feminist geography as practice, through interviews with feminist scholars and interludes in which feminist collectives speak to their experience inhabiting and transforming academic spaces. Feminist Geography Unbound is grounded in a feminist geography that has long forced the discipline to grapple with the production of difference, the unequal politics of knowledge production, and gender’s constitutive role in shaping social life.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
Banu Gökarıksel, Michael Hawkins, Christopher Neubert, and Sara Smith

Part I.
Discomfort across Encounters
1. Brown Scholar, Black Studies: On Suffering, Witness, and Materialist Relationality
Pavithra Vasudevan

2. The Path to Radical Vulnerability: Feminist Praxis and Community Food Collaborations
Carrie Chennault

3. Toilets and the Public Imagination: Planning for Safe and Inclusive Spaces
Rachael Cofield and Petra L. Doan

4. Interview with Kumarini Silva

Part II.
Gendered Bodies as a Terrain of Political Struggle
5. “Real” and “Mythical” Bodies Weaving Social Skin: Two Waorani Women Disrupting Genres of Amazonian Humanity
Gabriela Valdivia, Kati Álvarez, Alicia Weya Cawiya, Manuela Ima Omene, Dayuma Albán, and Flora Lu

6. (Tiny) Houses and Black Feminist Geographic Praxis: Building More Humanly Workable Geographies
Tia-Simone Gardner

7. Decolonizing Development, Challenging Patriarchy: Colonialism, Capitalism, and Gender in Diné Bikeyah
Melanie K. Yazzie and Andrew Curley

8. Women-Only Spaces as a Method of Policing the Category of Woman
Abigail Barefoot

9. Interview with Petra Doan

Part III.
Temporality and Feminist Futures
10. Making Memory: Care and Dalit Feminist Archiving
Anusha Hariharan

11. From the Women’s Movement to the Academy: Feminist Urban Planning, 1970–1985
Bri Gauger

12. Challenging Anglocentric Feminist Geography from Latin American Feminist Debates on Territoriality
Sofia Zaragocin

13. Interview with LaToya Eaves

Interlude: Calling All Collectives 
Interviews with Feminist Geography Collectives
Jess Linz, Araby Smyth, Emily Billo, Winifred Curran, Roberta Hawkins, Beverley Mullings, Alison Mountz, Kate Parizeau, Margaret Walton-Roberts, Risa Whitson, Annie Elledge, Caroline Faria, Dominica Whitesell, Danya Al-Saleh, Elsa Noterman, and FLOCK Geography Collective

Afterword
Lorraine Dowler

Contributors
Index

Editors

Banu Gökarıksel is professor, Michael Hawkins and Christopher Neubert are PhD candidates, and Sara Smith is associate professor in the department of geography at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Reviews

“Feminist Geography Unbound is a must-read for students and scholars interested in the diversity of feminist geographic thought, action, and activism. This is an exceptionally edited collection of leading scholars’ research and reflections on gender, race, sexuality, identity, vulnerability, and power relations. I highly recommend this book for advanced undergraduate and graduate courses engaging with feminist geographic scholarship and methods.”
Jennifer L. Fluri, coauthor of The Carpetbaggers of Kabul and Other American-Afghan Entanglements: Intimate Development, Geopolitics, and the Currency of Gender and Grief

Summary

Weatherford Award Finalist, Nonfiction

Environmental law has failed spectacularly to protect Appalachia from the ravages of liberal capitalism, and from extractive industries in particular. Remaking Appalachia chronicles such failures, but also puts forth hopeful paths for truly radical change.

Remaking Appalachia begins with an account of how, over a century ago, laws governing environmental and related issues proved fruitless against the rising power of coal and other industries. Key legal regimes were, in fact, explicitly developed to support favored industrial growth. Aided by law, industry succeeded in maximizing profits not just through profound exploitation of Appalachia’s environment but also through subordination along lines of class, gender, and race. After chronicling such failures and those of liberal development strategies in the region, Stump explores true system change beyond law “reform.” Ecofeminism and ecosocialism undergird this discussion, which involves bottom-up approaches to transcending capitalism that are coordinated from local to global scales.

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction
1. Historical Beginnings: Appalachian Coal and the Coming of Industrial Capitalism
2. Foundations of Environmental Law: Classical Liberalism
3. Twentieth-Century Appalachia: Failed Development Models and Coal’s Hegemony
4. Environmental Law: A Critically Flawed Paradigm
5. Modern Appalachia: Environmental Law’s Failure and the Broader Regional Landscape
6. Systemic Economic and Socio-Legal Change: Theory, Practice, and Praxis
7. Remaking Appalachia: Strongly Ecologically Sustainable Futures

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Author

Nicholas F. Stump is a lifelong West Virginian. His scholarship explores environmental law, critical legal theory, law and social movements, and Appalachian and rural studies. He currently works as a faculty member with the George R. Farmer Jr. Law Library at West Virginia University College of Law.

Reviews

“Remaking Appalachia offers a thorough critical account of Appalachia through a law and political economy lens, and makes a persuasive case for what the region needs today: a hopeful vision for a new future rooted in transformative, bottom-up change.”
Ann M. Eisenberg, University of South Carolina

“A must-read for anyone concerned about our reliance on unsustainable energy sources and environmentally damaging practices, and what can be done about it.”
Law Library Journal