In this era of globalization's ruthless deracination, place attachments have become increasingly salient in collective mobilizations across the spectrum of politics. Like place-based activists in other resource-rich yet impoverished regions across the globe, Appalachians are contesting economic injustice, environmental degradation, and the anti-democratic power of elites. This collection of seventeen original essays by scholars and activists from a variety of backgrounds explores this wide range of oppositional politics, querying its successes, limitations, and impacts. The editors' critical introduction and conclusion integrate theories of place and space with analyses of organizations and events discussed by contributors. Transforming Places illuminates widely relevant lessons about building coalitions and movements with sufficient strength to challenge corporate-driven globalization. Contributors are Fran Ansley, Yaira Andrea Arias Soto, Dwight B. Billings, M. Kathryn Brown, Jeannette Butterworth, Paul Castelloe, Aviva Chomsky, Dave Cooper, Walter Davis, Meredith Dean, Elizabeth C. Fine, Jenrose Fitzgerald, Doug Gamble, Nina Gregg, Edna Gulley, Molly Hemstreet, Mary Hufford, Ralph Hutchison, Donna Jones, Ann Kingsolver, Sue Ella Kobak, Jill Kriesky, Michael E. Maloney, Lisa Markowitz, Linda McKinney, Ladelle McWhorter, Marta Maria Miranda, Chad Montrie, Maureen Mullinax, Phillip J. Obermiller, Rebecca O'Doherty, Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Anita Puckett, Katie Richards-Schuster, June Rostan, Rees Shearer, Daniel Swan, Joe Szakos, Betsy Taylor, Thomas E. Wagner, Craig White, and Ryan Wishart. | Cover Title Page Copyright Page Contents Preface Acknowledgments Invocation/Invocacion Marta Maria Miranda Introduction: Placing Appalachia Stephen L. Fisher and Barbara Ellen Smith I. GO TELL IT ON THE MOUNTAINS: PLACE, IDENTITY, AND CULTURE 1. Stop the Bombs: Local Organizing with Global Reach Ralph Hutchison 2. RAIL Solution: Taking on Halliburton on the Home Front Rees Shearer 3. This Land Is Your Land: Local Organizing and the Hegemony of Growth Nina Gregg and Doug Gamble 4. Identity Matters: Building an Urban Appalachian Movement in Cincinnati Phillip J. Obermiller, M. 5. Appalachian Youth Re-envisioning Home, Re-making Identities Katie Richards-Schuster and Rebecca O 6. Resistance through Community-based Arts Maureen Mullinax II. WHERE NO ONE STANDS ALONE: BRIDGING DIVIDES 7. Organizing Appalachian Women: Hope Lies in the Struggle Meredith Dean with Edna Gulley and Linda 8. The Southern Empowerment Project: Homegrown Organizing Gone Too Soon June Rostan and Walter Davis 9. Center for Participatory Change: Cultivating Grassroots Support Organizing Craig White, Paul Cast 10. Faith-based Coalitions and Organized Labor: New Forms of Collaboration in the Twenty-first Centu 11. Talking Union in Two Languages: Labor Rights and Immigrant Workers in East Tennessee III. CLIMBING JACOB'S LADDER: SCALING UP 12. Virginia Organizing: The Action Is at the State Level Joe Szakos and Ladelle McWhorter 13. OxyContin Flood in the Coalfields: "Searching for Higher Ground" Sue Ella Kobak 14. Not Your Grandmother's Agrarianism: The Community Farm Alliance's Agrifood Activism Jenrose Fitz 15. Mountain Justice Cassie Robinson Pfleger, Randal Pfleger, Ryan Wishart, and Dave Cooper 16. Who Knows? Who Tells?: Creating a Knowledge Commons Anita Puckett, Elizabeth Fine, Mary Hufford, 17. North and South: Struggles over Coal in Colombia and Appalachia Aviva Chomsky and Chad Montrie Conclusion: Transformations in Place Barbara Ellen Smith and Stephen L. Fisher List of Contributors Index | "An important, user-oriented document for Appalachia and elsewhere. Highly...