Betsy Taylor

Biographic Data

ID3620904
NAMEBetsy Taylor
GIVEN NAMESBetsy
FAMILY NAMETaylor
SIGNATURETAYLOR B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Kentucky
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS14
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2017
H-INDEX2

  • A Green New Deal for Appalachia: Economic Transition, Coal Reclamation Costs, Bottom-Up Policymaking (Part 1)

    Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford et al.ARTICLEJournal of Appalachian Studies2017

    A key challenge of the twenty-first century will be to combine post-carbon economic transition with socioecological healing of the legacy damages concatenating from the fossil fuel era. What political and knowledge structures do we need to create integrated solutions to both of these challenges? In this paper, we draw lessons from grassroots social and environmental justice movements in Appalachia that seek post-coal economic transition. This art…

  • A Green New Deal for Appalachia: Economic Transition, Coal Reclamation Costs, Bottom-Up Policymaking (Part 2)

    Lyndsay Tarus, Mary Hufford et al.ARTICLEJournal of Appalachian Studies2017

    This is the second installment of the two-part article series delving into the challenges of a post-coal, post-carbon economic transition. Part 1 analyzed participatory action research on regional economic transition; here, in Part 2, we share perspectives from within the region on the root causes of maldevelopment, including how citizens describe root causes, and how those root causes hinder our progress toward a truly just transition. We specif…

  • Action: What's New and “Breaking” in Action and Agency around Environmental Issues

    Katherine O'Donnell, Katherine M O’Donnell et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2016

    Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Tools Icon Tools Get Permissions Cite Icon Cite Search Site Citation Katherine O'Donnell, Gretchen M. Herrmann, Jan Peter Laurens Loovers, Jamie San Andrés, Julie Raymond, Elizabeth F. Hall, Todd Sanders, Elisabet Dueholm Rasch, Michiel Köhne, Alexander Ervin, Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor, Mary Hufford, …

  • The Livelihoods Knowledge Exchange Network: Grow Where You Are

    Julie Maldonado, Betsy Taylor et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2016

  • Economic Transition in Central Appalachia: Knowledge/Power Mapping for Bottom-Up Policy

    Betsy Taylor, Dan Taylor et al.ARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2014

    This article reflects on collaborative and action research projects for economic transition in central Appalachia catalyzed by the Alliance for Appalachia, a coalition of fifteen grassroots organizations. In 2012, the Alliance formed an Economic Transition team to nurture horizontal support and knowledge- sharing networks among local economic transition projects across the region and to build vertical communication structures with the state, regi…

  • "Place" as Prepolitical Grounds of Democracy: An Appalachian Case Study in Class Conflict, Forest Politics, and Civic Networks

    Open AccessBetsy TaylorARTICLEAmerican Behavioral Scientist2009Cited by: 4References: 12

    This article argues for democratization as the crafting of democratic public space. Through ethnography of grassroots contestation in Appalachia, the article examines the social substrate of collective mobilization on environmental issues. It proposes shared stewardship of "place" as important grounds for democratization-helping to overcome divisions of class, culture, and ideology and to encourage integrative deliberation and knowledge. Collecti…

  • Globalization, Democracy and the Aesthetic Ecology of Emergent Publics for a Sustainable World: Working from John Dewey

    Betsy Taylor, Herbert G ReidARTICLEAsian journal of social science2006Cited by: 1References: 5

  • Consumption It Is Time for Economists and Scientists to Talk

    Open AccessBetsy TaylorARTICLEJournal of Industrial Ecology2005

  • John Dewey's Aesthetic Ecology of Public Intelligence and the Grounding of Civic Environmentalism

    Herbert G Reid, Herbert Reid et al.ARTICLEEthics & the Environment2003

    Herbert Reid, Betsy Taylor, John Dewey's Aesthetic Ecology of Public Intelligence and the Grounding of Civic Environmentalism, Ethics and the Environment, Vol. 8, No. 1, Special Issue on Art (Spring, 2003), pp. 74-92

  • Introduction: What Regional Studies can Contribute to Applied Anthropology

    Betsy Taylor, Samuel R CookARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2001

    The case studies in this issue suggest the diversity, creativity and deep historical roots of experiments in community/academic/government partnership in Appalachia. On one hand, it is important to understand these case studies as emerging from a distinctive Appalachian context. On the other hand, interesting resonances and convergences can be found with larger national and global movements. The word

  • A Place-Based University: The Land-Grant Mission in the 21 st Century

    Betsy TaylorARTICLEPracticing Anthropology2001

    The Project for the Civic and Environmental Commons is a cluster of initiatives, started by the Appalachian Center, University of Kentucky, in 1999, to support academic/ citizen partnerships in action research for equity and sustainability in the Appalachian region. It tries to serve as a bridge between movements within and outside academe. First, it attempts to link the university with the global movement for community-based development. A ferme…

  • Embodying Ecological Citizenship: Rethinking the Politics of Grassroots Globalization in the United States

    Open AccessHerbert G Reid, Herbert Reid et al.ARTICLEAlternatives Global Local Political2000Cited by: 9References: 4

    The problem, unstated till now, is how to live in a damaged body in a world where pain is meant to be gagged uncured, un-grieved over. The problem is to connect, without hysteria, the pain of any one's body with the pain of the body's world For it is the body's world they are trying to destroy forever The best world is the body's world filled with creatures, filled with dread misshapen so, yet the best we have our raft among the abstract worlds a…