Studying Appalachian Studies: Making the Path by Walking

In this collection, contributors reflect on scholarly, artistic, activist, educational, and practical endeavor known as Appalachian Studies. Following an introduction to the field, the writers discuss how Appalachian Studies illustrates the ways interdisciplinary studies emerge, organize, and institutionalize themselves, and how they engage with intellectual, political, and economic forces both locally and around the world.
 
Essayists argue for Appalachian Studies' integration with kindred fields like African American studies, women's studies, and Southern studies, and they urge those involved in the field to globalize the perspective of Appalachian Studies; to commit to continued applied, participatory action, and community-based research; to embrace more fully the field's capacity for bringing about social justice; to advocate for a more accurate understanding of Appalachia and its people; and to understand and overcome the obstacles interdisciplinary studies face in the social and institutional construction of knowledge.
 
Contributors: Chris Baker, Chad Berry, Donald Edward Davis, Amanda Fickey, Chris Green, Erica Abrams Locklear, Phillip J. Obermiller, Douglas Reichert Powell, Michael Samers, Shaunna L. Scott, and Barbara Ellen Smith.

• What You Are Getting Wrong About Appalachia
• Catching Stories: A Practical Guide to Oral History
• Uneven Ground: Appalachia since 1945
• Ecotourism in Appalachia: Marketing the Mountains
• River Of Earth
• Divine Right's Trip
• The Rhetoric of Appalachian Identity (Contributions to Southern Appalachian Studies)
• Confronting Ecological Crisis in Appalachia and the South: University and Community Partnerships
• Beyond Hill and Hollow: Original Readings in Appalachian Women's Studies (Ethnicity & Gender In Appalach)
• The Tangled Roots of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Appalachian Literature (Race, Ethnicity and Gender in Appalachia)