Coal Mines & Minng - Health & Environmental Aspects

Communty Activists - West Virginia

Environmental Degradation - Environmental Justice

Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1 Contextualizing the Case: Central Appalachia 15

I Identifying the Barriers to Participation

2 Micro-Level Processes and Participation in Social Movements 39

3 Depletion of Social Capital in Coalfield Communities 49

4 Identity and Participation in the Environmental Justice Movement 75

5 Cognitive Liberation, Cultural Manipulation, and Friends of Coal 89

6 Cognitive Liberation and Hidden Destruction in Central Appalachia 109

7 Summary of Part I 119

II Creating a Micromobilization Context

8 Creating a Micromobilization Context through Photovoice 123

9 Photovoice in Five Coal-Mining Communities 147

10 Becoming, and Un-Becoming, an Activist 231

Conclusion 249

Appendix A Data-Collection Methods and Tables for Chapter 3 259

Appendix B Interview Methods and Demographics of the Study Sample for Chapter 4 265

Appendix C Creation of the Coal-Critical Index and Analysis of Pre-Project and Post-Project Results in Photovoice Croups and Control Croups 267

Appendix D Photovoice Participation, Coal-Critical Photographs Shared, and Coal-Critical Photostories Created 271

Notes 287

References 295

Index 313

Series List