Table of Contents

• Introduction
• Part I. “I’m Afraid of That Water”: A West Virginia Disaster and Water Crisis
• 1. The Elk River Spill: On Water and Trust
• 2. Exploring the (Human) Nature of Disaster
• 3. Toward a Collaborative Ethnography
• 4. Chemical Spill Encountered
• Part II. On Place: To Stay or Not to Stay
• 5. Blues BBQ
• 6. Citizen Response: On Leaving and Staying
• 7. In and Out of Appalachia
• Interlude. Exploring the (Human) Nature of Disaster; Impact and Responses
• art III. On Making and Remaking Community
• 8. Activism and Community
• 9. WVWaterHistory.com and Producing Digital Resources on a Water Crisis
• 10. What Does a Water Crisis Sound Like?
• 11. Can We Trust the Water System Now? Some Updates
• Epilogue
• Afterword
• Notes
• List of Contributors
• Index

About the Author

Luke Eric Lassiter is a professor of humanities and anthropology and director of the graduate humanities program at Marshall University. He is the author of Invitation to Anthropology, The Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography, and, with Elizabeth Campbell, Doing Ethnography Today.
 
Brian A. Hoey is a professor of anthropology and associate dean of the honors college at Marshall University and author of Opting for Elsewhere.
 
Elizabeth Campbell is chair of the department of curriculum and instruction at Appalachian State University. She is the coeditor of Re-imagining Contested Communities and coauthor of Doing Ethnography Today.
 

Reviews

A great example of a multiauthored and intersubjective ethnography of toxic suffering, this book is a model for future disaster ethnographies." — Peter Little, Rhode Island College