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100 1  Conlogue, William,|eauthor. 
245 10 Undermined in coal country :|bon the measures in a working
       land /|cBill Conlogue. 
264  1 Baltimore :|bJohns Hopkins University Press,|c2017. 
300    1 online resource 
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504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  Preface: Working the Face ; Note; Acknowledgments; 
       Timeline; One: Campus as Question ; Two: Wood ; Three: 
       Fire ; Four: In the Gaps ; Five: Body Language ; Six: On 
       Broken Ground ; Seven: Burying Books ; Conclusion: Working
       Home ; Notes; Works Cited; Index ; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H;
       I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z; 
       Photographs. 
520    "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. Once dominated by the boom-and-
       busts of coal mining, the valley's shared history touches 
       communities as far-flung as the Pacific Northwest, the 
       Gulf Coast shorelines, and the mountains of West Virginia.
       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, including heavy deforestation, geological 
       disruption, and mine fires, 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 
       describes a fascinating paradox: because of coal mining, 
       the city and college have suffered, but the United States 
       has grown stronger. Examining higher education through the
       lens of an unstable region still reeling from its 
       industrial heritage, Undermined in Coal Country defends 
       the study of literature and history as parts of an 
       interdisciplinary web of meaning. 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"--|cProvided by 
       publisher. 
520    "Unearthing new ways of thinking about place, pedagogy, 
       and the environment, "On the Measures" argues that place 
       is unstable. To study dimensions of place, the book 
       explores two working landscapes: 1) Scranton, Pennsylvania,
       an undermined, former coal-mining city, and 2) Marywood 
       University, a Scranton institution that confronts the 
       aftermath of mining. Scranton and Marywood have endured 
       the narrative of extraction that the Anthracite Region 
       once celebrated. Recounting removal of parts of this place
       to feed other places, the story defines loss here as gain 
       there: the city and college have suffered but the United 
       States has grown stronger. The tale ends badly, however, 
       because the narrative arcs toward exhaustion; the 
       storyline offers little about renewal. Growing up with 
       this narrative, Scrantonians have been fleeing the city 
       for decades; the dominant trend among young people has 
       long been to learn here to move elsewhere. Too few 
       environmental humanists have sufficiently examined the 
       primary place where many work: the university. When they 
       do, they often do not link the university to its local, 
       regional, and national environmental contexts. In 
       exploring where Conlogue teaches, he shows how bound up 
       places of learning are with unsettling sites of resource 
       extraction. Defending the study of literature and history,
       "On the Measures" shows university students that the 
       disciplines they study are parts of an interdisciplinary 
       web of meaning that includes the contexts of the places 
       where they learn"--|cProvided by publisher. 
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610 20 Marywood University|xHistory. 
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650  0 Anthracite coal mines and mining|xSocial aspects
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650  0 Anthracite coal mines and mining|xEnvironmental aspects
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650  7 LITERARY CRITICISM|xGeneral.|2bisacsh 
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650  7 Ecology.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00901476 
650  7 Social conditions.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01919811 
651  0 Scranton (Pa.)|xHistory. 
651  0 Scranton (Pa.)|xSocial conditions. 
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776 08 |iPrint version:|aConlogue, William.|tUndermined in coal 
       country.|dBaltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2017
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