Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understanding of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia, West Virginia
This article sketches student responses and subsequent political action to directly witnessing the tragedy of Mountaintop Coal Mining (MTR) on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. I have created an "engaged anthropological curriculum" as part of my Resource Wars of 21st Century (an upper lev...
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| description | This article sketches student responses and subsequent political action to directly witnessing the tragedy of Mountaintop Coal Mining (MTR) on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. I have created an "engaged anthropological curriculum" as part of my Resource Wars of 21st Century (an upper level elective course) where students spend four days on an active battlefield in order to a) expose students first-hand to the stories and testimonials of social, economic, physical degradation caused by MTR. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-76a823a466b845b4b7d13d5abf7f17c82022-12-22T01:39:36ZengUniversity Library System, University of PittsburghRadical Teacher1941-08322015-06-01102081610.5195/rt.2015.185120Resource Wars: An On the Ground Understanding of Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining in Appalachia, West VirginiaNicole Fabricant0Towson UniversityThis article sketches student responses and subsequent political action to directly witnessing the tragedy of Mountaintop Coal Mining (MTR) on Kayford Mountain in West Virginia. I have created an "engaged anthropological curriculum" as part of my Resource Wars of 21st Century (an upper level elective course) where students spend four days on an active battlefield in order to a) expose students first-hand to the stories and testimonials of social, economic, physical degradation caused by MTR.http://radicalteacher.library.pitt.edu/ojs/index.php/radicalteacher/article/view/185 |
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