Fighting King Coal
The Challenges to Micromobilization in Central Appalachia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20009391 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Robert Gottlieb (0000-0001-8376-8709), Shannon Bell (0000-0002-7338-3757, corresponding author), Shannon Elizabeth Bell |
| Year | 2016 |
| Pages | 344 |
| Publication date | 2016-03-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Fighting King Coal (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | The MIT Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.7551/mitpress/9780262034340.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W2342666574 |
| Open Library | OL28591882M |
| ISBN | 9780262034340 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 70 |
| References cited | 1 |
An examination of why so few people suffering from environmental hazards and pollution choose to participate in environmental justice movements. In the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia, mountaintop-removal mining and coal-industry-related flooding, water contamination, and illness have led to the emergence of a grassroots, women-driven environmental justice movement. But the number of local activists is small relative to the affected population, and recruiting movement participants from within the region is an ongoing challenge. In Fighting King Coal, Shannon Elizabeth Bell examines an understudied puzzle within social movement theory: why so few of the many people who suffer from industry-produced environmental hazards and pollution rise up to participate in social movements aimed at bringing about social justice and industry accountability. Using the coal-mining region of Central Appalachia as a case study, Bell investigates the challenges of micromobilization through in-depth interviews, participant observation, content analysis, geospatial viewshed analysis, and an eight-month “Photovoice” project—an innovative means of studying, in real time, the social dynamics affecting activist involvement in the region. Although the Photovoice participants took striking photographs and wrote movingly about the environmental destruction caused by coal production, only a few became activists. Bell reveals the importance of local identities to the success or failure of local recruitment efforts in social movement struggles, ultimately arguing that, if the local identities of environmental justice movements are lost, the movements may also lose their power
Archaeology · Coal · Political science · History · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Coal mines and mining · Community activists · Environmental aspects · Environmental degradation · Environmental health · Environmental justice · Health aspects · Mines and mineral resources · Social aspects · united states
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Rural Appalachia in Global Context
The Devil We Know
Unpacking the Ordinary in the Extraordinary
An Eco-Politics that Moves
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The Impacts of Landscape Loss on Industrial Communities
Non-Decision Power and Political Opportunity
The River Is Not the Same Anymore”
Performing transparency, embracing regulations
Of mills and mines
Scientists don’t care about truth anymore’
Environmental justice and natural resource extraction
Indigeneity, gender and class in decision-making about risks from resource extraction
We do ecology, not sociology’
Petro-hegemony and the matrix of resistance
Risk perceptions and the maintenance of environmental injustice in Appalachia
Constructing insignificance
There’s always winners and losers’
Environmental concern in a Wyoming coal town
Protecting the power to pollute
Social Solidarity, Collective Identity, Resilient Communities
Trashing Appalachia
Coal Waste, Socioeconomic Change, and Environmental Inequality in Appalachia
Cursed by Coal”
Understanding Self-Rated Health and Unconventional Oil and Gas Development in Three Colorado Communities
Workers’ Acquiescence to Air Pollution
Privileged Accounts in the Debate over Coal-Fired Power in the United States
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Collective Neoliberalism and Market Fundamentalism
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Symbolizing Destruction
Socioeconomic Legitimacy of Surface Mining
Denial and misinformation in defense of the tar sands
The enduring legacy of black lung
Colonizing Canis lupus
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‘‘Planting little seeds’ to resist big oil
Coal and Collective Action in Appalachia
Rural Landowners, Energy Leasing, and Patterns of Risk and Inequality in the Shale Gas Industry
The Appalachian Regional Commission and the Articulation of the Coal Consensus
Raging Against the “Neoliberal Hellscape”
Towards a more just post-coal future
Let them eat kale!”
Ecomodern Masculinity, Energy Security, and Green Consumerism
The Actual Harm Was Worse Than What Was Being Recorded
Disrupting the Complacency
Light Environmentalists and Quiet Activism
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Petrochemical Pollution and the Suppression of Environmental Protest
The Social Bases of Rural-Urban Political Divides
Living at Extractive Sites
Community identity, governance, and resilience under agri-environmental shifts in two communities of southwestern Uruguay
Corporate Violence in the Central Appalachian Coal Industry
Total Extraction
The Social Impacts of Supply-Side Decarbonization
Land Inequalities in the United States
Conditions for successful environmental justice mobilizations
Industrial pollution and acquiescence
Visual Storytelling and Socioenvironmental Change
The tenacity of trust in petrochemical communities
Lay Victims' Conceptions of Environmental Crime and Environmental Injustice
Emotion and othering in a contaminated community
Beside the berm
The incursions of extractivism
| Unique citing works | 70 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 7 |
| Citation span | 2016 - 2026 (11) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 69 |