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struggles for a post-coal future in an Appalachian valley
Published in 1982, John Gaventa's award-winning Power and Powerlessness examined the dominance of the absentee coal industry in Central Appalachia. Gaventa and Gabe Schwartzman update the story through coal's decline and into the present while focusing on how power relations and community mobilizing have changed and evolved during this era of transition. Their analysis tracks the impact on a place where a fossil fuel-based economy shaped political and social structures for over a century. As they show, new forms of power emerged while old ones remained, and both affected the popular struggle for a future that's both just and more inclusive. Original and timely, Power and Just Transitions merges historical perspective with interviews and engagement to look at how coal's decline impacted power and resistance in an Appalachian community.
Introduction: the challenge of just transitions -- 1. Intersecting inequalities and the failed promise of development -- 2. Setting the context: power, resistance, and the rise and decline of King Coal -- 3. Power and transitions -- 4. Old powerholders cling on: how the coal industry fights to maintain its dominance -- 5. Protecting the hegemony of coal: the rise of the conservative right -- 6. Financialization and the rise of corporate conservatism -- 7. Building collective power from below -- 8. Bottom up meets top down: a new policy moment? -- Conclusion: an interregnum between past and future?
Includes bibliographical references and index.