Amanda McMillan Lequieu

Who We Are Is Where We Are

Making Home in the American Rust Belt

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Produktbeschreibung

Through the cases of the former steel manufacturing hub of southeast Chicago and a shuttered mining community in Iron County, Wisconsin, Amanda McMillan Lequieu traces the power and shifting meanings of the notion of home for people who live in troubled places.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Columbia University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm
• ISBN-13: 9780231198752
• ISBN-10: 0231198752
• Artikelnr.: 70142646

Autorenporträt

Amanda McMillan Lequieu is an assistant professor of sociology at Drexel University.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Capitalism Makes Place: Constructing an Industrial Home
2. Home Without the Company: Deindustrializing the American Midwest
3. How to Stay in the Rust Belt: Work, Choice, and Home in the Decade After
Company Closure
4. Stories of House, Landscape, Community: Narrating the Declining Action
of Deindustrialization
5. Natural Resource Futures in Iron County
6. Tangled Landscapes in Southeast Chicago
Conclusion
Appendix A: Notes on Methods
Appendix B: Teach This Book
Notes
Index