Undermined in Coal Country: On the Measures in a Working Land

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Synopsis
Deep mining ended decades ago in Pennsylvania;€™s Lackawanna Valley. The barons who made their fortunes have moved on. Low wages and high unemployment haunt the area, and the people left behind wonder whether to stay or seek their fortunes elsewhere.Bill Conlogue explores how two overlapping coal country landscapes;¢;‚¬;€?Scranton, Pennsylvania, and Marywood University;¢;‚¬;€?have coped with the devastating aftermath of mining. Examining the far-reaching environmental effects of mining, this beautifully written book asks bigger questions about what it means to influence a landscape to this extent;¢;‚¬;€?and then to live in it. In prose rivaling that of Annie Dillard and John McPhee, Conlogue argues that, if we are serious about solving environmental problems, if we are serious about knowing where we are and what happens there, we need to attend closely to all places;¢;‚¬;€?that is, to attend to the world in a cold, dark, and disorienting universe. Unearthing new ways of thinking about place, pedagogy, and the environment, this meditative text reveals that place is inherently unstable.
Copyright:
2017

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ISBN-13:
9781421423197
Related ISBNs:
9781421423180, 9781421423180
Publisher:
Johns Hopkins University Press
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Copyrighted By:
Johns Hopkins University Press
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No
Language:
English
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No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Science, Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
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