Global Mountain Regions : Conversations toward the Future / edited by Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar Balasundaram.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed August 30, 2018).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"No matter where they are located in the world, communities living in mountain regions have shared experiences defined in large part by contradictions. These communities often face social and economic marginalization despite providing the lumber, coal, minerals, tea, and tobacco that have fueled the growth of nations for centuries. They are perceived as remote and socially inferior backwaters on one hand while simultaneously seen as culturally rich and spiritually sacred spaces on the other. These contradictions become even more fraught as environmental changes and political strains place added pressure on these mountain communities. Shifting national borders and changes to watersheds, forests, and natural resources play an increasingly important role as nations respond to the needs of a global economy. The works in this volume consider multiple nations, languages, generations, and religions in their exploration of upland communities' responses to the unique challenges and opportunities they share. From paintings to digital mapping, environmental studies to poetry, land reclamation efforts to song lyrics, the collection provides a truly interdisciplinary and global study. The editors and authors offer a cross-cultural exploration of the many strategies that mountain communities are employing to face the concerns of the future."-- Provided by publisher.

"Hard times" / Si Kahn -- 1. Introduction : listening to voices across global mountain regions / Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar Balasundaram -- "Mother Jones' Farewell (I Was There)" / Si Kahn -- 2. After coal, through film : welsh and Appalachian mining communities / Tom Hansell and Patricia Beaver -- "Wigan pier" / Si Kahn -- 3. Mountains, coal, and life in British Columbia and West Virginia / Paul S. Ciccantell -- 4. Black diamonds / Crystal Good -- 5. Historicizing poverty and marginalization in the southern mountain regions of Malawi / Tony Milanzi -- "Momma was a union woman" / Si Kahn -- 6. Voices for community rights in Amazonia / Monica Chují -- "Blue Ridge Mountain refugee" / Si Kahn -- 7. Indigenous social movements in mountain regions / Carmen Martínez Novo, Shannon Elizabeth Bell, Subhadra Mitra Channa, Annapurna Devi Pandey, and Luis Alberto Tuaza Castro -- "People like you" / Si Kahn -- 8. Rebuilding mountain communities after natural and human-made disasters / Jude L. Fernando, Lina Maria Calandra, Stephanie McSpirit, Pam Oldfield Meade, Jeremy Paden, and Shaunna L. Scott -- "The border line" / Si Kahn -- 9. Moving heaven and earth behind mountains : everyday life for displaced migrants on the Haitian Side of the Haitian-Dominican border / Daniel Joseph -- "Black gold" / Si Kahn -- 10. Environment, health, and justice : tracing the connections in global mountain regions / Mary K. Anglin, Gregory V. Button, and Dolores Molina-Rosales -- "When the morning breaks" / Si Kahn -- 11. Circulating news in rural China and Appalachia / Al Cross and You You -- 12. Thinking about the future : global mountain students and educational choices / Jane Jensen, Marco Pitzalis, Mir Afzal Tajik, and Alan J. DeYoung -- 13. Jirga : everyday peace-building in rural mountain communities of Pakistan / Sajjad Ahmad Jan -- 14. Mapping and measuring digital divides in mountain regions : global and local knowledge and silences / Stanley D. Brunn and Maria Paradiso -- "My old times" / Si Kahn -- 15. Artifacts of home : the landscape speaks / Saakshi Joshi -- 16. Resonating with the trees : tracking musical instrument tonewood between Appalachian and Carpathian forest environments / Jasper Waugh-Quasebarth -- "Traveler" / Si Kahn -- 17. Appalachian and Carpathian exchanges : two essays / Jessica Murray and Iryna Galuschchak -- 18. Appalachian and Columbian connections through cerulean warbler migration : a student pen-pal project / Regina Donour -- 19. Experience and expertise : confronting climate change in the Andes / Lisa B. Markowitz -- 20. Sustainable livelihoods in extreme lands / Dipak R. Pant -- "Aragon mill" / Si Kahn -- 21. Comparing rural livelihood transitions in the Catalan and Sardinian regions of Europe and the Appalachian region of the United States / Domenica Farinella, Ann Kingsolver, Ismael Vaccaro, and Oriol Beltran -- "Wild rose of the mountain" / Si Kahn -- 22. Honey corridors in the Nilgiri Biosphere Reserve and Appalachian coal production areas / Tammy Horn Potter and Kunal Sharma -- "The gap).

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