Steven Stoll (Author)
Environmental History
Volume: 26
Issue: 1
Pages: 23-28
Edition Details: Special Issue: Go Tell it on the Mountain: A Forum on Appalachia's Environmental History
Language: English
Most recent books about Appalachia speak to its capitalist transformation, whether that series of events is set during the rule of the British Empire or after the Civil War. Appalachia offers a case unlike that of New England or New York City. But, as soon as we make this distinction, we enter the realm of models and ideas. Since organizing work in order to produce capital follows patterns that extend across space and time, there is always tension between generalized characteristics and specific cases. There are plenty of models and ideas to choose from. Eastern capitalists regarded the southern mountains as a (pick one) crucial periphery, resource frontier, or internal colony; its history illustrates creative destruction, the production of space, spatial fixes, the world system, or underdevelopment in the writings of Immanuel Wallerstein, Andre Gunder Frank, Henri Lefebvre, David Harvey, or Neil Smith. We might be reading political ecologists or economic anthropologists, like Marshall Sahlins, David Graeber, or Stephen Gudeman. These authors describe how capital seized environments and ensnared people to form new divisions of labor, continually remaking space in its image.
...MoreArticle Swanson, Drew A.; Steven Stoll; Kathryn Newfont; Joyce Barry; Timothy Silver (2021) Forum: Appalachia’s Environmental History. Environmental History (pp. 7-8).
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