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| About the Author |
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| Acknowledgments |
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| Introduction |
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Issues of Social Justice in LIS Scholarship and Education |
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Research and the Appalachian Region |
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Chapter One Mystery and Wonder |
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Higher Education and the Marketplace |
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The Contradictions of My Own Position |
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13 | (2) |
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The Question of Academic Disciplines and the LIS Perspective |
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Dialectical Thinking, Critical Inquiry, and Transcendance |
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Chapter Two The Strike and Issues of Social Media |
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Understanding Collective Action |
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The Decline of Institutions and the Rise of Social Media |
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Appalachian Identity and Resistance |
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Theoretical Implications for the Field of LIS |
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Collective Action and LIS |
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Collective Identity and LIS |
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Chapter Three Theoretical and Epistemological Frameworks |
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Collective Action and Social Movements |
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Overcoming the Problem of Self-interest |
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Rationalism, Modernity, and Its Discontents |
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44 | (2) |
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46 | (2) |
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Meaning in Contradiction: Dialectical Thinking and the Critical Perspective |
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48 | (2) |
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Technology and Social Movements |
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Techno-Centrism and the Modern World |
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Social Media and Contemporary Social Movements |
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Implications for Collective Action |
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Social Media and the Promise of Democracy |
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A Critical Perspective of Social Media and Protest |
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Collective Identity, Place, and Refusal |
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Collective Identity and Social Movements |
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Social Media and Identity |
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Imagined Appalachia and Refusal/Resistance |
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Chapter Four The Puzzle of Academic Research |
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Slaying the Positivist Father |
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A Critical Perspective and the Methodological Conundrum |
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Sociopolitical Positionality |
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Using Qualitative and Interpretivist Methods for Critical Inquiry |
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The Spirit of Ethnography |
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Unruly Doubts and Tumultuous Realities |
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Chapter Five Telling the Story |
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The Importance of Storytelling |
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Part II Talking About the Union Can Be Complicated |
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Part III Caught in the Middle |
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Part IV It's the Insurance |
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Part VI A Page Went Up on Facebook |
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Part VII All the Information They Had |
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Part VIII Where Are You Going to Be? |
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Part IX 15 Things Could Happen in 10 Minutes |
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Part XI The Bigger Picture |
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Part XII It Was About the Kids |
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The Role of Social Media in the Strike |
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The Impact of Social Media on the Strike |
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107 | (2) |
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A Sense of Collective Identity |
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Chapter Six Beyond Rationalism |
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Social Media and the Strike |
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The Strike as a Successful Failure |
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The Importance of Collective Identity |
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116 | (3) |
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118 | (3) |
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Chapter Seven A Reflective Journey |
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121 | (12) |
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Research in the Midst of a Global Pandemic |
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122 | (2) |
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A Particular Form of Torture |
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124 | (2) |
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126 | (7) |
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127 | (2) |
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129 | (4) |
| References |
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| Index |
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