Our music is taken from the song “Pourquoi je pas?”, and is kindly provided by Chocolat Billy, a band based in Bordeaux, France. To find out more about them, visit their pages on Bandcamp, Facebook and the Free Music Archive.
Todd Nesbitt is a professor of geography at Lock Haven University in Pennsylvania.
Todd’s research interests span a diverse range of topics, including Appalachia, globalization, and environmental geography. He has also developed courses on topics like sustainability in Appalachia and the path towards peace in Northern Ireland.
Todd received his PhD from the West Virginia University in 1997.
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EPISODE RESOURCES
Take Me Home, Country Roads (Audio)
by John Denver
YouTube
From Corn Liquor to State Pride – Origins of ‘West by God Virginia’
by Liz McCormick
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
West Virginia: America’s Third World Nation
by Diane M. Francis
Huffington Post
The Resource Curse of Appalachia
by Eliza Griswold
New York Times
Want to Avoid the Resource Curse? Build a Mineral Permanant Fund
Ted Boettner
West Virginia Center on Budget & Policy
What is mountaintop removal mining?
Earthjustice
From Polluted to Playground: It’s Taken 25 Years to Clean Up the Cheat River
by Brittany Patterson
West Virginia Public Broadcasting
New River Gorge is Now a National Park and Preserve
National Park Service
Yesterday’s People: Life in Contemporary Appalachia
by Jack E. Weller
University of Kentucky Press
The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto
by W.W. Rostow
Cambridge University Press
ARC’s POWER Initiative
Appalachian Regional Commission
Rerum Novarum: Encyclical of Pepe Leo XIII
Vatican website
Rerum novarum
Wikipedia
G.K. Chesterton’s Distributism
by Dale Ahlquist
The Distributist Review
Hilaire Belloc
New World Encylopedia
Small is Beautiful by E. F. Schumacher
Wikipedia
West Virginia Community Development Hub
Official website
Mondragon Corporation
Wikipedia
Economic democracy: why handing power back to the people will fix our broken system
by Andrew Cumbers
The Conversation
José María Arizmendiarrieta
Wikipedia
Dorothy Day biography
The Catholic Worker Movement
Mother Jones biography
AFL-CIO
The Evergreen Cooperatives of Cleveland
Official website
Co-op Cincy
Official website
Appalachia Cooperates Initiative
Official website
Reimagine Appalachia
Official website
MORE BY TODD NESBITT
West Virginia: A Case for Economic Distributism in Appalachia
by J. Todd Nesbitt
Journal of Appalachian Studies
Ethnography and Participatory Rural Appraisal in Central Appalachia
by J. Todd Nesbitt
Journal of Appalachian Studies
Review: Two Continents, One Culture: The Scotch-Irish in Southern Appalachia by Stephen Brown et al.
by J. Todd Nesbitt
West Virginia History: A Journal of Regional Studies
Review: Southern West Virginia and the Contradiction of Coal by Rebecca R. Scott
by J. Todd Nesbitt
Appalachian Journal
Review: Culture, Environment, and Conservation in the Appalachian South by Benita J. Howell
by J. Todd Nesbitt
Journal of Appalachian Studies
Review: Where There Are Mountains: An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians by Donald Edward Davis
by J. Todd Nesbitt
Journal of Appalachian Studies