Applying Days of Destruction to a McDowell, WV County Profile

Abstract

The project will outline terms like sacrifice zones and leverage points and apply the importance of understanding them in a sociological context with real world examples. This will focus on multiple county profiles around an instance of a sacrifice zone to describe the conditions of a community’s physical health, social factors, risks the community faces, and points of resilience more accurately. Both scholarly and non scholarly credible news related research and data will be used as sources to frame the findings. The project takes inspiration from Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt by Chris Hedges and Joe Sacco.