Acknowledgments | xi |
“Hard Times” Si Kahn | |
1. Introduction: Listening to Voices across Global Mountain Regions - Ann Kingsolver and Sasikumar Balasundaram | 3 |
“Mother Jones' Farewell (I Was There)” Si Kahn | |
2. After Coal, through Film: Welsh and Appalachian Mining Communities - Tom Hansell and Patricia Beaver | 27 |
“Wigan Pier” Si Kahn | |
3. Mountains, Coal, and Life in British Columbia and West Virginia - Paul S. Ciccantell | 45 |
4. Black Diamonds - Crystal Good | 59 |
5. Historicizing Poverty and Marginalization in the Southern Mountain Regions of Malawi - Tony Milanzi | 63 |
“Momma Was a Union Woman” Si Kahn | |
6. Voices for Community Rights in Amazonia - Monica Chují | 75 |
“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 | 83 |
“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 | 121 |
“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 | 151 |
“Black Gold” Si Kahn | |
10. Environment, Health, and Justice: Tracing the Connections in Global Mountain Regions - Mary K.Anglin, Gregory Button, and Dolores Molina-Rosales | 163 |
“When the Morning Breaks” Si Kahn | |
11. Circulating News in Rural China and Appalachia - Al Cross and You You | 179 |
12. Thinking about the Future: Global Mountain Students and Educational Choices - Jane Jensen, Marco Pitzalis, Mir Afzal Tajik, and Alan J. DeYoung | 193 |
13. Jirga: Everyday Peace-Building in Rural Mountain Communities of Pakistan - Sajjad Ahmad Jan | 209 |
14. Mapping and Measuring Digital Divides in Mountain Regions: Global and Local Knowledge and Silences - Stanley D. Brunn and Maria Paradiso | 215 |