Fighting Back in Appalachia: Traditions of Resistance and ChangeStephen Fisher Temple University Press, 2009 - 379 頁 Sixteen original essays document the extent and variety of citizen resistance and struggle in the Appalachian region since 1960. The contributors-all organizers or activist intellectuals-describe how and why some of the dramatic Appalachian resistance efforts and strategies have arisen. Contributors: Bill Allen, Mary K. Anglin, Fran Ansley, Alan Banks, Dwight Billings, Mary Beth Bingman, Sherry Cable, Guy and Candie Carawan, Richard A. Couto, Stephen William Foster, John M. Glen, Hal Hamilton, Bennett M. Judkins, Don Manning-Miller, Ellen Ryan, Jim Sessions, Joe Szakos, Karen Tice, Chris Weiss, and the editor. |
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Individual | 69 |
Growth | 85 |
Practical Lessons in Community Organizing | 101 |
vi | 123 |
Organizational | 151 |
Coalition Building | 225 |
CULTURE CLASS AND GENDER | 243 |
Womens Labor | 263 |
Appalachian Studies Resistance and Postmodernism | 283 |
Politics Expressive Form and Historical Knowledge | 303 |
New Populist Theory and | 317 |
A Bibliography | 339 |
Directory of Organizations | 361 |
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第 263 頁 - I do not see class as a >structure<, nor even as a »category«;, but as something which in fact happens (and can be shown to have happened) in human relationships.
第 275 頁 - Eric R. Wolf, Europe and the People Without History (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982).
第 165 頁 - The central argument of this book is that particular sorts of public places in the community, what we call free spaces, are the environments in which people are able to learn a new self-respect, a deeper and more assertive group identity, public skills, and values of cooperation and civic virtue.
第 295 頁 - Brunner (1986: 123) states that culture is "a forum for negotiating and re-negotiating meaning ... it is the forum aspect of culture that gives its participants a role in constantly making and remaking the culture — an active role as participants rather than as performing actors who play out their canonical roles according to rule when the appropriate cues occur.
第 127 頁 - In keeping with their concern that the program be "largescale, vigorous, and thorough-going," they propose," "If the farm labor force were to be, five years hence, no more than two thirds as large as its present size of approximately 5.5 millions, the program would involve moving off the farm about two million of the present farm labor force, plus a number equal to a large part of the new entrants who would otherwise join the farm labor force in five years.
第 166 頁 - ... particular sorts of public places in the community, what we call free spaces, are the environments in which people are able to learn a new self-respect, a deeper and more assertive group identity, public skills, and values of cooperation and civic virtue. Put simply, free spaces are settings between private lives and large-scale institutions where ordinary citizens can act with dignity, independence, and vision.
第 290 頁 - Every narrative, however seemingly "full," is constructed on the basis of a set of events that might have been included but were left out; this is as true of imaginary narratives as it is of realistic ones.