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Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 Part I. The Worst Goddamn Thing I’ve Ever Seen 19 1. Welcome to Coal River 25 2. Fighting Back . . . Again 44 3. What Are We Fighting For? 56 Part II. Banana Republic, Neoliberal Style 67 4. Strained Solidarities 71 5. The Chase 90 6. Whose Development Is It? 113 Part III. Symbolic Capital, the Commons, and Community Activism 121 7. Gender, Solidarity, and Symbolic Capital 123 8. Commons Environmentalism and Community Activism 138 Conclusion: John Henry, Efficiency, and Community 157 Epilogue 171 Appendix 177 Notes 179 Bibliography 191 Index 201 ...

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