Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking by Berry, Chad

Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780252080838)

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Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking by Berry, Chad

Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking

$25.00
Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking by Berry, Chad

Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking

$25.00
Format: Paperback
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In this collection, contributors reflect on scholarly, artistic, activist, educational, and practical endeavor known as Appalachian Studies. Following an introduction to the field, the writers discuss how Appalachian Studies illustrates the ways interdisciplinary studies emerge, organize, and institutionalize themselves, and how they engage with intellectual, political, and economic forces both locally and around the world.

Essayists argue for Appalachian Studies' integration with kindred fields like African American studies, women's studies, and Southern studies, and they urge those involved in the field to globalize the perspective of Appalachian Studies; to commit to continued applied, participatory action, and community-based research; to embrace more fully the field's capacity for bringing about social justice; to advocate for a more accurate understanding of Appalachia and its people; and to understand and overcome the obstacles interdisciplinary studies face in the social and institutional construction of knowledge.

Contributors: Chris Baker, Chad Berry, Donald Edward Davis, Amanda Fickey, Chris Green, Erica Abrams Locklear, Phillip J. Obermiller, Douglas Reichert Powell, Michael Samers, Shaunna L. Scott, and Barbara Ellen Smith.

Author: Chad Berry
ISBN-10: 0252080831
ISBN-13: 9780252080838
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Language: English
Published: 06/01/2015
Pages: 240
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 8.91h x 5.93w x 0.34d

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By Chad Berry
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Chad Berry is academic vice president and dean of the faculty, Goode Professor of Appalachian Studies, and professor of history at Berea College. He is the author of Southern Migrants, Northern Exiles. Phillip Obermiller is a senior visiting scholar in the School of Planning at the University of Cincinnati. He is coauthor of African American Miners and Migrants: The Eastern Kentucky Social Club. Shaunna L. Scott is an associate professor of sociology at the University of Kentucky and the author of Two Sides to Everything: The Cultural Construction of Class Consciousness in Harlan County, Kentucky.

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