The New Decentralists: The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Politics of Localism in Appalachia, 1968-2000
by Jinny A Turman
West Virginia University Press, 2026
Paper: 978-1-959000-88-4 | eISBN: 978-1-959000-89-1 (all) | eISBN: 978-1-959000-90-7 (PDF)
ABOUT THIS BOOK
How some “back-to-the-landers” fled alienating urban, bureaucratic places for rural Appalachia in pursuit of self-reliance, liberation, and community, only to later find themselves vulnerable to a rising tide of national conservatism that minted new political elites on the state and local level at odds with their progressive social ideas and environmental values.
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