“We made the choice to stick it out”: Negotiating a stable home in the rural, American Rust Belt

- Home is a combination of material resources, social construction, and embodied experiences.
- By considering home in resource-extractive contexts, we gain insight into patterns of response to economic change.
- Stability of home relies on non-economic narratives, since resource extraction was notoriously unstable.
- Support for new mining motivated by residents' desire for renewed sense of 'home,' beyond hopes for direct employment.