Participation Type
Panel
Session Title
Session 11.05 Transformations in Spaces for Engagement and Scholarship
Presentation #1 Title
Defining Place Across Generations of Appalachian Scholarship
Presentation #1 Abstract or Summary
This panel will present recent scholarship from a publishing project entitled Appalachia Revisited: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Regional Continuity and Change (forthcoming U Press of Kentucky). Schumann will analyze past and present strategies of defining place in Appalachian scholarship. Loeffler will discuss non-profit strategies to build local capacity via housing and infrastructure policies. Piser will analyze participatory action research methods in the context of political ecology theories. Puckett will describe local development projects in reference to neoliberal politics of development in Virginia.
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #1
Dr. William Schumann is an assistant professor of anthropology and director of the Allegheny Institute for Natural History at the University of Pittsburgh at Bradford,
Presentation #2 Title
Strength in Numbers: FAHE
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #2
Dr. Diane N. Loeffler earned her Doctorate in Social Work from the University of Kentucky in 2006. Dr. Loeffler is currently a Lecturer in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky where she teaches across the undergraduate curriculum and in the Community and Social Development concentration at the MSW level.
Presentation #3 Title
Participation and Transformation in Appalachian
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #3
Gabriel Piser is an advanced doctoral student in Comparative Studies at the Ohio State University and holds an MS from SUNY-Binghamton. He uses cultural studies to better understand contemporary political and ecological conflicts.
Presentation #4 Title
Constructing a “Knowledge Commons” in Virginia Appalachia: Community/University Constructions of Resistance to Neoliberal Economics
At-A-Glance Bio- Presenter #4
Dr. Anita Puckett (Ph.D. University of Texas) is associate professor of anthropology at Virginia Polytechnic University where she directs the Appalachian Studies Program.
Defining Place Across Generations of Appalachian Scholarship
Corbly Hall 467
This panel will present recent scholarship from a publishing project entitled Appalachia Revisited: Cross-Disciplinary Perspectives on Regional Continuity and Change (forthcoming U Press of Kentucky). Schumann will analyze past and present strategies of defining place in Appalachian scholarship. Loeffler will discuss non-profit strategies to build local capacity via housing and infrastructure policies. Piser will analyze participatory action research methods in the context of political ecology theories. Puckett will describe local development projects in reference to neoliberal politics of development in Virginia.
