Undermined In Coal Country

Author : Bill Conlogue
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2017-10-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781421423197

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Undermined in Coal Country by Bill Conlogue Pdf

A study of lives and landscapes in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley and “what the region’s history of mining reveals about human folly and endeavor” (The Chronicle of Higher Education). Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania’s Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their fortunes have moved on. Low wages and high unemployment haunt the area, and the people left behind wonder whether to stay or seek their fortunes elsewhere. Bill Conlogue explores how two overlapping coal country landscapes—Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Marywood University—have coped with the devastating aftermath of mining. Examining the far-reaching environmental effects of mining, this beautifully written book asks bigger questions about what it means to influence a landscape to this extent—and then to live in it. In prose rivaling that of Annie Dillard and John McPhee, Conlogue argues that, if we are serious about solving environmental problems, if we are serious about knowing where we are and what happens there, we need to attend closely to all places—that is, to attend to the world in a cold, dark, and disorienting universe. Unearthing new ways of thinking about place, pedagogy, and the environment, this meditative text reveals that place is inherently unstable.

Author : Bill Conlogue,William Conlogue
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 9781421423180

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Undermined in Coal Country by Bill Conlogue,William Conlogue Pdf

"Unearthing new ways of thinking about place, pedagogy, and the environment, "On the Measures" argues that place is unstable. To study dimensions of place, the book explores two working landscapes: 1) Scranton, Pennsylvania, an undermined, former coal-mining city, and 2) Marywood University, a Scranton institution that confronts the aftermath of mining. Scranton and Marywood have endured the narrative of extraction that the Anthracite Region once celebrated. Recounting removal of parts of this place to feed other places, the story defines loss here as gain there: the city and college have suffered but the United States has grown stronger. The tale ends badly, however, because the narrative arcs toward exhaustion; the storyline offers little about renewal. Growing up with this narrative, Scrantonians have been fleeing the city for decades; the dominant trend among young people has long been to learn here to move elsewhere. Too few environmental humanists have sufficiently examined the primary place where many work: the university. When they do, they often do not link the university to its local, regional, and national environmental contexts. In exploring where Conlogue teaches, he shows how bound up places of learning are with unsettling sites of resource extraction. Defending the study of literature and history, "On the Measures" shows university students that the disciplines they study are parts of an interdisciplinary web of meaning that includes the contexts of the places where they learn"--

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2024-06-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0780725433

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In Coal Country by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jessica Smith Rolston
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : OCLC:1336108641

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Mining Coal and Undermining Gender by Jessica Smith Rolston Pdf

Author : Shirley Stewart Burns,Mari-Lynn Evans,Silas House
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105215462917

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Coal Country by Shirley Stewart Burns,Mari-Lynn Evans,Silas House Pdf

An illustrated chronicle of the growing protest movement against mountaintop removal mining (MTR) of coal in Appalachia, including essays, commentary, and oral histories.

Author : Ryan Holifield,Jayajit Chakraborty,Gordon Walker
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 670 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2017-09-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317392828

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The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice by Ryan Holifield,Jayajit Chakraborty,Gordon Walker Pdf

The Routledge Handbook of Environmental Justice presents an extensive and cutting-edge introduction to the diverse, rapidly growing body of research on pressing issues of environmental justice and injustice. With wide-ranging discussion of current debates, controversies, and questions in the history, theory, and methods of environmental justice research, contributed by over 90 leading social scientists, natural scientists, humanists, and scholars from professional disciplines from six continents, it is an essential resource both for newcomers to this research and for experienced scholars and practitioners. The chapters of this volume examine the roots of environmental justice activism, lay out and assess key theories and approaches, and consider the many different substantive issues that have been the subject of activism, empirical research, and policy development throughout the world. The Handbook features critical reviews of quantitative, qualitative, and mixed methodological approaches and explicitly addresses interdisciplinarity, transdisciplinarity, and engaged research. Instead of adopting a narrow regional focus, it tackles substantive issues and presents perspectives from political and cultural systems across the world, as well as addressing activism for environmental justice at the global scale. Its chapters do not simply review the state of the art, but also propose new conceptual frameworks and directions for research, policy, and practice. Providing detailed but accessible overviews of the complex, varied dimensions of environmental justice and injustice, the Handbook is an essential guide and reference not only for researchers engaged with environmental justice, but also for undergraduate and graduate teaching and for policymakers and activists.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 642 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1930
Category : Coal
ISBN : NYPL:33433107796314

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Coal Mining by Anonim Pdf

Author : United States. Bureau of Mines
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 22 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Coal mines and mining
ISBN : UOM:39015078453670

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Advancing Coal Mining Technology Research, Development, and Demonstration in Fiscal Year 1977 by United States. Bureau of Mines Pdf

Author : Bruce Podobnik
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2008-11-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781592138043

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Global Energy Shifts by Bruce Podobnik Pdf

A timely look at key transitions in energy use over the past 100 years.

Author : Robert G. Hunt,United States. Environmental Protection Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1974
Category : Beverages
ISBN : UIUC:30112105059270

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Resource and Environmental Profile Analysis of Nine Beverage Container Alternatives by Robert G. Hunt,United States. Environmental Protection Agency Pdf

"This study is a resource and environmental profile analysis (REPA) of nine beverage container options. The analysis encompassed seven different parameters: virgin raw materials use, energy use, water use, industrial sold wastes, post-consumer solid wastes, air pollutant emissions and water pollutant effluents. These parameters were assessed for each manufacturing and transportation step in the life cycle of a container, beginning with extraction of the raw materials from the earth, continuing through the materials processing steps, product fabrication, use and final disposal. The nine container systems encompass four basic raw materials: glass, steel, aluminum and plastic. A fifth basic material is also included in packaging of the containers; this material is paper.--P. 1.

Author : Ohio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1518 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Ohio
ISBN : OSU:32435072542376

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Annual Reports for ..., Made to the ... General Assembly of the State of Ohio .. by Ohio Pdf

Author : John Fitzgerald
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-13
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1519654871

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Dirty Mines by John Fitzgerald Pdf

DIRTY MINES is a story about coal mining in Pennsylvania. For the first time many of the jobs performed by boys, as young as 8 years old, are described in detail. Cesar D'Angelo was 10 when his father was killed in the mines. Cesar, the oldest boy in his family, had to take his father's place working for the coal company. His first job was working high up in the dangerous coal breakers. At the age of 12 he went down into the blackish, coal dusted mines to begin his long mining career. His first job was sitting in the dark alone for 10 to 12 hours a day as a door keeper. Later he became a spragger, mule driver, and had various other jobs until becoming a lifetime coal miner. DIRTY MINES also addresses the rich history of this era; including the miscarriage of justice towards the Molly Maguires in their fight for union rights and the environmental disaster at the Knox Coal company that ended coal mining in North Eastern Pennsylvania. This is a family story about the last generation of Scranton coal miners. It is a fascinating and warm narrative of sacrifice, humor, and love. A revealing story about a forgotten way of life in difficult times, with very little pay in horrible working conditions. It's an anecdotal story of courage and tenacity of poor deprived coal miners that struggled to make a better life for their children. Their historic sacrifices are being passed on to a new generation, so their unique heritage will never be forgotten.

Author : Ohio
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1510 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1881
Category : Ohio
ISBN : UOM:39015068553836

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Documents, Including Messages and Other Communications by Ohio Pdf

Author : Karol K. Weaver
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780271068176

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Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania's Anthracite Region, 1880–2000 by Karol K. Weaver Pdf

While much has been written about immigrant traditions, music, food culture, folklore, and other aspects of ethnic identity, little attention has been given to the study of medical culture, until now. In Medical Caregiving and Identity in Pennsylvania’s Anthracite Region, 1880–2000, Karol Weaver employs an impressive range of primary sources, including folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes, to show how the men and women of the anthracite coal region crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made. Weaver examines communities’ relationships with both biomedically trained physicians and informally trained medical caregivers, and how these relationships reflected a sense of “Americanness.” She uses interviews and oral histories to help tell the story of neighborhood healers, midwives, Pennsylvania German powwowers, medical self-help, and the eventual transition to modern-day medicine. Weaver is able to show not only how each of these methods of healing was shaped by its patrons and their backgrounds but also how it helped mold the identities of the new Americans who sought it out.

Author : United States. Central Intelligence Agency
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 648 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : World politics
ISBN : OSU:32435063627491

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Daily Report, Foreign Radio Broadcasts by United States. Central Intelligence Agency Pdf