The New Appalachia

Eller, Ronald D.

doi:10.5810/kentucky/9780813125237.003.0007

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“…Historically, LGBTQ+ people's life experiences in Alabama were connected to a large portion of the state's problematic geographic location in the Appalachian area. This area encountered harsh circumstances of marginalization and declining economic, social, and cultural circumstances that negatively influenced its residents (Appalachian Regional Commission, 2003; Bishop et al, 2016; Eller, 2008; Kotch, 2005; Mehra et al, 2012; Skinner & Slifkin, 2007). Of the 420 Appalachian counties, the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) (2018) recognized 84 counties as economically anguished, 115 as economically at‐risk, and 208 were transitional.…”

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“Don't Say Gay” in Alabama: A taxonomic framework ofLGBTQ+ information support services in public libraries—An exploratory website content analysis of critical resistance

Mehra

Jaber

2023

Asso for Info Science & Tech

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The American state of Alabama has recently developed a national notoriety as a toxic place for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning/queer (LGBTQ+) people owing to several laws that have supported human rights violations and denied their civil liberties. This case study assesses how Alabama's public libraries are providing culturally relevant web access and coverage to LGBTQ+ information to meet their needs/concerns in a region that is oppressive to sexual and gender minorities. In the process, it illustrates public libraries' emerging role as simultaneously impotent to the majority's infringements, while finding creative ways to serve as counter narrative spaces of resistance representing “voices” of, and from, the margins. This exploratory assessment is based on documenting web‐based information for LGBTQ+ people in Alabama's 230 public libraries and identifies seven intersectional examples of information offerings, categorized into three groupings: (a) information sources (collections, resources); (b) information policy/planning (assigned role, strategic representation); (c) connections (internal, external, news/events). It provides a taxonomic framework with representative examples that challenge the regional stereotype of solely deficit marginalization. The discussion provides new opportunities to build collaborations of sharing within Alabama's public library networks to better address LGBTQ+ concerns and inequities in their local and regional communities.

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“Don't Say Gay” in Alabama: A taxonomic framework ofLGBTQ+ information support services in public libraries—An exploratory website content analysis of critical resistance

Mehra

Jaber

2023

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“…The view of Appalachian society as an example of premodern Anglo-Saxon heritage played an important role in the commercialization of its traditions and the organization of society around large-scale industrial development strategies (Becker 1998;Davis and Baker 2014;Eller 2008;Gaventa 1980;Lewis, Johnson and Adkins, 1978;Shapiro 1978) mountain cultures adapt to deforestation and other large-scale land use patterns.…”

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“…The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), for instance, represents one of the largest development projects in modern history. The outcomes of TVA and other centralized planning shaped highland land use around resource extraction, hydroelectric dams, federal parks, and urban growth centers (Cole 1948;Eller 2008;Whisnant 1983). While focusing on improvements in farming, depression era federal programs promoted crops supporting industrial agriculture and market integration.…”

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Reinventing Mountain Food Traditions and Small Farm Survival in Southern Appalachia

Baker

2017

Martor

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For over four decades, social scientists have addressed the relationship between development strategies and Appalachia’s highland cultural traditions. Historically, mountain foodways and diversified agricultural practices were defined as aspects of primitive folkways legitimating resource extractive industries and centralized development strategies. Today, the region contains many of the nation’s remaining family farms. The processes of globalization and growing demand for local foods are introducing highland farming traditions to new audiences. This case study looks at the emerging role family farms in the East Tennessee valley are playing in development and the social construction of the region’s foodways. Drawing on multidisciplinary perspectives, I focus first on the historical roots and continuity of the region’s culinary tradition. Highland foods represent the core of mountain culture grounded in the ecological and economic experiences of its rural communities. Next the paper discusses the emergence of markets for place-based foods focusing on community development, tourism and a local foods-based culinary renaissance.

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“…Although U.S. coal production quantities did not start to decline until the early 2000s, Appalachian coal employment has been waning for about a century. This long-term decline in employment has been driven largely by supply-side factors, as technological developments allowed coal mining firms to maintain high production with fewer coal workers (Eller, 2008). Air quality regulation in the 1990s further reduced Appalachian coal mining employment by inducing a shift to low-sulfur coal mined in the Powder River Basin in Montana and Wyoming, which is more capital intensive than the generally highersulfur coal found in Appalachia (Carlson, Burtraw, Cropper, and Palmer (2000)).…”

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The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels

Blonz¹,

Tran²,

Troland³

2023

ERWP

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The energy transition away from fossil fuels presents significant transition risks for communities historically built around the fossil fuel industry. This paper uses the decline in the Appalachian coal industry between 2011 and 2018 to understand how individuals are harmed by a reduction in local fossil fuel extraction activity. We use individual-level credit data and exogenous variation in coal demand from the electricity sector to identify how the coal mining industry’s decline affected the finances of Appalachian households. We find that the decline in demand for coal caused broad-based negative impacts, decreasing credit scores and increasing credit utilization, delinquencies, amounts in third party collections, bankruptcy rates, and the number of individuals with subprime status. These effects were broad based and cannot be explained solely by individuals who lost coal mining jobs. Individuals with the lowest pre-period credit scores were more likely to end up in financial distress and experienced a greater deterioration in credit scores. Quantile regressions show that the drop in credit scores from the coal decline was most pronounced between the 30th and 50th percentiles of the credit score distribution. Our results provide evidence that people living in fossil fuel extraction regions are likely to experience declines in financial well-being from the energy transition even if they do not directly work in the affected industry.

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The New Appalachia

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“Don't Say Gay” in Alabama: A taxonomic framework ofLGBTQ+ information support services in public libraries—An exploratory website content analysis of critical resistance

“Don't Say Gay” in Alabama: A taxonomic framework ofLGBTQ+ information support services in public libraries—An exploratory website content analysis of critical resistance

Reinventing Mountain Food Traditions and Small Farm Survival in Southern Appalachia

The Canary in the Coal Decline: Appalachian Household Finance and the Transition from Fossil Fuels

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