Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South: University and Community Partnerships

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253 Index Aberdeen (MD): chemical weapons disposal in, 156, 161 absentee landownership, 1, 39 academic-activist collaborations: in Anniston (AL) environmental justice activism, 15, 149–52, 167; benefits of, 5–6, 66–67, 110, 127–30, 233–34; in CCRC, 13, 110, 112–13, 114–17, 127–30; in CCT, 13–14, 132, 134–38, 141, 142–44; commonsense intuition legitimized in, 181–82; failed partnerships, 237–38; impact of, in universities, 6; in Madison County (KY) anti-incineration movement, 181–82, 190–91; models for, 229–31; power disparities in, 32, 218; public policy influenced by, 131–32; relationships in, 42–44, 234–35; social capital in, 235. See also participatory action research; specific partnerships Ace Magazine, 102 ACENet, 220 Adams, Sandra, 100 Adkins, Lilly, 88 African Americans: in Anniston (AL), 14–15, 147–48, 150–51, 155–56, 162–63; and CCT, 133–34, 135, 137; chip mill jobs and, 111; industrial hog farm locations and, 13–14, 133, 138; land loss litigation by, 141–42; PCB contamination and, 14–15, 155–56. See also Anniston (AL) environmental justice movement; Concerned Citizens of Tillery (CCT) Ahmadu Bello University (Nigeria), 220 air stripping, 69 Alabama: Appalachian Land Ownership Study in, 1, 39, 42; CCRC partnerships in, 121; landownership and taxation in, 47 Alabama Department of Environmental Management (ADEM), 159 Alexandria (AL), 157 American Land Forum Magazine, 47 American Social History Project, 51 Anniston (AL): chemical industry in, 147, 148, 150; CWWG group in, 149; location of, 147; media coverage of, 156–57; military facilities in, 147, 148, 151; PCB contamination in, 14–15, 148, 150, 151–52, 157, 234; poverty rate in, 151; racial/class divides in, 14–15, 147–48, 150–51, 155–56, 162–63 Anniston (AL) environmental justice movement: academic-activist collaboration in, 15, 149–52, 167; alliances of, 152–53, 154, 155–56, 160–62; chemical weapons disposal focus of, 5, 149–51, 154–57, 158–67; environmental justice focus of, 149, 152–53, 154, 164; march for environmental justice (2002), 163–68; media coverage of, 254 Index Anniston (AL) environmental justice movement (cont.) 156–60, 162–63, 166–67; PCB cleanup focus of, 5, 149, 151–52, 155–56, 157–58, 164; public meetings, 154–55 Anniston Army Depot (AL), 147, 148, 151 Anniston City Meeting Center, 152–53, 154–55, 163 Anniston Public Library, 166 Anniston Star, 162–63, 165 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 224 Appalachia: chip mills in, 110; cultural balkanization in, 22, 23–24; environmental groups in, 2; forest products industry in, 110–11; prison privatization in, 220; War on Poverty definition of, 41 Appalachian Alliance, 40 Appalachian Land Ownership Study, 1–2, 10; historical context, 40–42; impact of, 39–40, 47–54, 56–57; insider critiques of, 54– 56; media coverage of, 47; policy recommendations in, 39, 55–56; publication of, 53; researcher relationships in, 42–44, 233; structure/process, 42–47, 55–56 Appalachian Land Ownership Task Force (ALOFT), 39, 41–42, 43, 46–47, 233 Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC): Appalachian Land Ownership Study and, 39, 41–42, 43, 44–45, 46, 56; “distressed counties” as defined by, 85; funding by, 87–88; Headwaters Project and, 195–96, 209; Martin County Project and, 87–88 Appalachian Research and Defense Fund of Kentucky (AppalReD), 50 Appalachian State University (Boone, NC), 40, 45, 53, 113 Appalachian studies, paradigm shift in, 40, 48–49, 56, 57 Appalachian Studies Association (ASA), 48 Appalachian Voices, 122 Appalachian Volunteers, 41 Appalshop, 97, 199, 220 Arch Coal Company, 103–4 Arch Mineral, 101–2 Asian Development Research Institute (India), 220 Askins, Donald, 40 Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (ACWA), 179–80, 187–89 Associated Press, 100 Auburn University (Auburn, AL), 13, 115–16, 129, 152, 234 Bailey, Conner, 2, 12–13, 110, 115–16, 127, 128, 129, 238 Balancing the Scales (KFTC newspaper), 104 Ball, Earl, 96 Banks, Alan, 16–17, 56, 199, 208 Barton, Allen, 77 bat, Indiana (species), 95, 97, 99 Beaver, Patricia, 42, 43, 48, 53 Bechtel Corporation, 188 Bell County (KY), 200; coal heritage in, 22 Bell County Health Department, 25 Belmont Report (1978), 30 Benham (KY), 93, 101–2 Bennholdt-Thomsen, Veronica, 225 Berea College (Berea, KY), 41, 98, 176, 182 Berry, Wendell, 103, 229, 241 best management practices (BMPs), 118 Bickford, James E., 101 Big Branch Coal Waste Impoundment (Martin County, KY), 75–76 Index 255 Big Sandy River, 76 Birmingham News, 157 Bishop, Bill, 63 Black Mountain (Harlan...