Shaunna L Scott
Biographic Data
| ID | 215013 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shaunna L Scott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shaunna L |
| FAMILY NAME | Scott |
| SIGNATURE | SCOTT S L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Kentucky |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 28 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
“How About Some Collaboration?”: Micro-Level Barriers to Democratic, Evidence-Based Decision Making
This case study of Elkhorn City, Kentucky, a community in conflict over economic development and the legalization of alcohol sales, reflects some of the dysfunctional political dynamics that currently threaten liberal democracies regionally, nationally, and globally. In spite of the area’s many natural and cultural assets, demographic homogeneity, and broad areas of commonality and agreement, this community has found it difficult to create a more…
Promoting Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Tourism on the Russell Fork: An Academic-Community Partnership Report
This community note describes a five-year academic-community partnership between a community organization and two universities in Kentucky. It also documents the potential of adventure tourism to help diversify the community’s economy and contribute to the quality of life in the region. While recognizing that adventure tourism cannot make up for the loss of the area’s traditional economic base, the data indicate that adventure tourism can make a …
The Long-Term Effects of a Coal Waste Disaster on Social Trust in Eastern Kentucky Updated
This research note follows up a study of the immediate impact of an October 2000 coal waste disaster on social trust, community attachment, and risk perception in Martin County, Kentucky. This research study explores whether the negative social impacts of the October 2000 disaster in Martin County have persisted in the longer term. Specifically, it analyzes two waves of survey data Martin County (2001 and 2011) and Perry County, Kentucky (2001 an…
The Suspicious, Untrusting Hillbilly in Political-Economic Contexts: Stereotypes and Social Trust in the Appalachian Coalfields
Over the past fourteen years, the authors of this article have collaborated on two community-based participatory action research projects in Appalachian Kentucky. One focused on assessing the social impacts of a major environmental disaster (2000-2014) and the other involves partnering with a small community seeking to transition a struggling, coal-driven economy to a more diverse and sustainable one (2013-present). In what follows, we discuss ou…
Risky Business: Coal Waste Emergency Planning in West Virginia and Kentucky
This study investigates emergency action planning to cope with potential coal waste spills in the central Appalachian coalfields. It is based on a survey study of emergency preparedness in West Virginia’s Mingo and Wyoming Counties as well as a participant-observation and interview study in Martin County, Kentucky. This research suggests that merely having an emergency plan is insufficient for creating a public perception of disaster preparedness…
The Long-Term Effects of a Coal Waste Disaster on Social Trust in Appalachian Kentucky
In October 2000, a coal impoundment structure emptied more than 300 million gallons of toxic coal waste into the streams of Martin County, Kentucky. This study compares surveys conducted in the months following the disaster with surveys administered 10 years later to determine the long-term impacts of the disaster on trust in government, corporations, and experts. We find that the social trust levels in Martin County partially recovered in the 10…
Discovering what the people knew: The 1979 Appalachian Land Ownership Study
The Appalachian Land Ownership Study is recognized as a pioneering effort in the interdisciplinary field of participatory action research. This article analyzes this community-based study of land ownership and taxation in Appalachia to determine what lessons it offers a new generation of action researchers. It demonstrates both the practical difficulties in community-based research as well as the challenges to legitimation that may be launched fr…
The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change
Sinners, Lovers and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures
Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky
Women, Development, and Communities for Empowerment in Appalachia
Dead work: The construction and reconstruction of the Harlan Miners Memorial
Drudges, Helpers and Team Players: Oral Historical Accounts of Farm Work in Appalachian Kentucky1
Based upon oral history interviews with 49 agriculturalists from Harlan and Letcher Counties, Kentucky, this paper documents the gender division of labor among these farm families, from the 1920s through the present. It also compares 17 wives' and husbands' accounts of farm work. While these data generally conform to patterns documented in previous sociological investigations of gender roles on family farms, a comparison of men's and women's acco…
Religion and Political Legitimation
Sociologists have always recognized the “double function” of religion in the legitimation of power and privilege and in protest and opposition, but theories of secularization and modernization predicted the declining significance of religion in contemporary public life. We review new approaches to religious activism and legitimation efforts in the United States and in the world-system that stress the interrelatedness of religion and politics. The…
They Don't Have to Live by the Old Traditions: Saintly men, sinner women, and an Appalachian Pentecostal revival
This article examines an Appalachian Pentecostal revival in socioeconomic context, analyzing it as an arena through which male church leaders interpreted women's abandonment of the church as they simultaneously sought to reestablish Pentecostal patriarchal hegemony within the community. The revival illuminates the contradictory tensions between gender, class, and community as they are articulated through revival discourse. [gender, Pentecostalism…
Promise to the Land: Essays on Rural Women
Grannies, Mothers and Babies: An Examination of Traditional Southern Appalachian Midwifery
Although the transition from midwife‐ to doctor‐attended childbirth ended around 1920 in most parts of the United States, some groups, including ethnic minorities and rural dwellers, continued to rely on the midwife for delivery assistance well into the 1930s and 1940s. Interviews conducted with the members of one of these groups, the people of the southern Appalachian Mountains, yields information concerning the techniques and training of tradit…
Drudges, Helpers and Team Players: Oral Historical Accounts of Farm Work in Appalachian Kentucky1
Based upon oral history interviews with 49 agriculturalists from Harlan and Letcher Counties, Kentucky, this paper documents the gender division of labor among these farm families, from the 1920s through the present. It also compares 17 wives' and husbands' accounts of farm work. While these data generally conform to patterns documented in previous sociological investigations of gender roles on family farms, a comparison of men's and women's acco…
Dead work: The construction and reconstruction of the Harlan Miners Memorial
They Don't Have to Live by the Old Traditions: Saintly men, sinner women, and an Appalachian Pentecostal revival
This article examines an Appalachian Pentecostal revival in socioeconomic context, analyzing it as an arena through which male church leaders interpreted women's abandonment of the church as they simultaneously sought to reestablish Pentecostal patriarchal hegemony within the community. The revival illuminates the contradictory tensions between gender, class, and community as they are articulated through revival discourse. [gender, Pentecostalism…
Grannies, Mothers and Babies: An Examination of Traditional Southern Appalachian Midwifery
Although the transition from midwife‐ to doctor‐attended childbirth ended around 1920 in most parts of the United States, some groups, including ethnic minorities and rural dwellers, continued to rely on the midwife for delivery assistance well into the 1930s and 1940s. Interviews conducted with the members of one of these groups, the people of the southern Appalachian Mountains, yields information concerning the techniques and training of tradit…
Discovering what the people knew: The 1979 Appalachian Land Ownership Study
The Appalachian Land Ownership Study is recognized as a pioneering effort in the interdisciplinary field of participatory action research. This article analyzes this community-based study of land ownership and taxation in Appalachia to determine what lessons it offers a new generation of action researchers. It demonstrates both the practical difficulties in community-based research as well as the challenges to legitimation that may be launched fr…
Grannies, Mothers and Babies: An Examination of Traditional Southern Appalachian Midwifery
Although the transition from midwife‐ to doctor‐attended childbirth ended around 1920 in most parts of the United States, some groups, including ethnic minorities and rural dwellers, continued to rely on the midwife for delivery assistance well into the 1930s and 1940s. Interviews conducted with the members of one of these groups, the people of the southern Appalachian Mountains, yields information concerning the techniques and training of tradit…
Promise to the Land: Essays on Rural Women
Religion and Political Legitimation
Sociologists have always recognized the “double function” of religion in the legitimation of power and privilege and in protest and opposition, but theories of secularization and modernization predicted the declining significance of religion in contemporary public life. We review new approaches to religious activism and legitimation efforts in the United States and in the world-system that stress the interrelatedness of religion and politics. The…
They Don't Have to Live by the Old Traditions: Saintly men, sinner women, and an Appalachian Pentecostal revival
This article examines an Appalachian Pentecostal revival in socioeconomic context, analyzing it as an arena through which male church leaders interpreted women's abandonment of the church as they simultaneously sought to reestablish Pentecostal patriarchal hegemony within the community. The revival illuminates the contradictory tensions between gender, class, and community as they are articulated through revival discourse. [gender, Pentecostalism…
Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky
Women, Development, and Communities for Empowerment in Appalachia
Dead work: The construction and reconstruction of the Harlan Miners Memorial
Drudges, Helpers and Team Players: Oral Historical Accounts of Farm Work in Appalachian Kentucky1
Based upon oral history interviews with 49 agriculturalists from Harlan and Letcher Counties, Kentucky, this paper documents the gender division of labor among these farm families, from the 1920s through the present. It also compares 17 wives' and husbands' accounts of farm work. While these data generally conform to patterns documented in previous sociological investigations of gender roles on family farms, a comparison of men's and women's acco…
Sinners, Lovers and Heroes: An Essay on Memorializing in Three American Cultures
The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change
Discovering what the people knew: The 1979 Appalachian Land Ownership Study
The Appalachian Land Ownership Study is recognized as a pioneering effort in the interdisciplinary field of participatory action research. This article analyzes this community-based study of land ownership and taxation in Appalachia to determine what lessons it offers a new generation of action researchers. It demonstrates both the practical difficulties in community-based research as well as the challenges to legitimation that may be launched fr…
Risky Business: Coal Waste Emergency Planning in West Virginia and Kentucky
This study investigates emergency action planning to cope with potential coal waste spills in the central Appalachian coalfields. It is based on a survey study of emergency preparedness in West Virginia’s Mingo and Wyoming Counties as well as a participant-observation and interview study in Martin County, Kentucky. This research suggests that merely having an emergency plan is insufficient for creating a public perception of disaster preparedness…
The Long-Term Effects of a Coal Waste Disaster on Social Trust in Appalachian Kentucky
In October 2000, a coal impoundment structure emptied more than 300 million gallons of toxic coal waste into the streams of Martin County, Kentucky. This study compares surveys conducted in the months following the disaster with surveys administered 10 years later to determine the long-term impacts of the disaster on trust in government, corporations, and experts. We find that the social trust levels in Martin County partially recovered in the 10…
The Suspicious, Untrusting Hillbilly in Political-Economic Contexts: Stereotypes and Social Trust in the Appalachian Coalfields
Over the past fourteen years, the authors of this article have collaborated on two community-based participatory action research projects in Appalachian Kentucky. One focused on assessing the social impacts of a major environmental disaster (2000-2014) and the other involves partnering with a small community seeking to transition a struggling, coal-driven economy to a more diverse and sustainable one (2013-present). In what follows, we discuss ou…
The Long-Term Effects of a Coal Waste Disaster on Social Trust in Eastern Kentucky Updated
This research note follows up a study of the immediate impact of an October 2000 coal waste disaster on social trust, community attachment, and risk perception in Martin County, Kentucky. This research study explores whether the negative social impacts of the October 2000 disaster in Martin County have persisted in the longer term. Specifically, it analyzes two waves of survey data Martin County (2001 and 2011) and Perry County, Kentucky (2001 an…
Promoting Outdoor Recreation and Adventure Tourism on the Russell Fork: An Academic-Community Partnership Report
This community note describes a five-year academic-community partnership between a community organization and two universities in Kentucky. It also documents the potential of adventure tourism to help diversify the community’s economy and contribute to the quality of life in the region. While recognizing that adventure tourism cannot make up for the loss of the area’s traditional economic base, the data indicate that adventure tourism can make a …
“How About Some Collaboration?”: Micro-Level Barriers to Democratic, Evidence-Based Decision Making
This case study of Elkhorn City, Kentucky, a community in conflict over economic development and the legalization of alcohol sales, reflects some of the dysfunctional political dynamics that currently threaten liberal democracies regionally, nationally, and globally. In spite of the area’s many natural and cultural assets, demographic homogeneity, and broad areas of commonality and agreement, this community has found it difficult to create a more…
Political science (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Law (9 works) · Geography (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Appalachia (5 works) · Archaeology (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works)