Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields - Couverture rigide

Kasdorf, Julia Spicher; Rubin, Steven

 
9780271080932: Shale Play: Poems and Photographs from the Fracking Fields
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ISBN 10 : 0271080930 ISBN 13 : 9780271080932
Editeur : Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018

Synopsis

In Shale Play, acclaimed poet Julia Spicher Kasdorf and award-winning documentary photographer Steven Rubin explore the small towns, farms, and forests of Appalachian Pennsylvania to gather the stories of these places and the working people who inhabit them.

In the parlance of the oil and gas industry, “shale play” refers to a region exploited for its natural gas by means of hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—transient industrial processes that often occur far from the populations that benefit from them. Amid polarized claims about fracking and pressure to develop these areas around the world, this project gathers evidence from everyday life in the Marcellus Shale Play. Kasdorf and Rubin follow in the footsteps of the documentarians of the 1930s, such as the artists and writers of the Works Progress Administration, taking a deliberate and thoughtful approach to gather the stories of workers on pipelines and well pads, landowners and leaseholders, waitresses, ministers, farmers, retired miners, teachers, and neighbors. The resulting collage of vivid oral and pictorial testimony reveals the natural beauty of rural places as well as the disturbance and spectacle fracking creates.

A passionate work of witness, Shale Play invites the reader to look beyond the easy caricatures of the white working class to create an urgent, authentic representation of a sacrifice zone that fuels America.

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À propos des auteurs

Julia Spicher Kasdorf grew up in Westmoreland, Pennsylvania. She is Professor of English and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University.

Steven Rubin is Associate Professor of Art, specializing in photography, at Penn State University.

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Éditeur
Pennsylvania State University Press
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0271080930
ISBN 13 
9780271080932
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
144
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Personne responsable
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