I'm Afraid of That Water

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.

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

• IntroductionPart I. “I’m Afraid of That Water”: A West Virginia Disaster and Water Crisis1. The Elk River Spill: On Water and Trust2. Exploring the (Human) Nature of Disaster3. Toward a Collaborative Ethnography4. Chemical Spill EncounteredPart II. On Place: To Stay or Not to Stay5. Blues BBQ6. Citizen Response: On Leaving and Staying7. In and Out of AppalachiaInterlude. Exploring the (Human) Nature of Disaster; Impact and Responsesart III. On Making and Remaking Community8. Activism and Community9. WVWaterHistory.com and Producing Digital Resources on a Water Crisis10. What Does a Water Crisis Sound Like?11. Can We Trust the Water System Now? Some UpdatesEpilogueAfterwordNotesList of ContributorsIndex