The Slums of Aspen : Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden / David Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park.
2011
JV6930.A76 P37 2013
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The Slums of Aspen : Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden / David Pellow, Lisa Sun-Hee Park.
Author
Park, Lisa Sun-Hee, author.
ISBN
9780814768044
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New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2011]
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©2011
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English
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In English.
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1 online resource : 5 black and white illustrations
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10.18574/nyu/9780814768044.001.0001 doi
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JV6930.A76 P37 2013
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305.9 23
Summary
Winner, Allan Schnaiberg Outstanding Publication Award, presented by the Environment & Technology section of the American Sociological AssociationEnvironmentalism usually calls to mind images of peace and serenity, a oneness with nature, and a shared sense of responsibility. But one town in Colorado, under the guise of environmental protection, passed a resolution limiting immigration, bolstering the privilege of the wealthy and scapegoating Latin American newcomers for the area's current and future ecological problems. This might have escaped attention save for the fact that this wasn't some rinky-dink backwater. It was Aspen, Colorado, playground of the rich and famous and the West's most elite ski town. Tracking the lives of immigrant laborers through several years of exhaustive fieldwork and archival digging, The Slums of Aspen tells a story that brings together some of the most pressing social problems of the day: environmental crises, immigration, and social inequality. Park and Pellow demonstrate how these issues are intertwined in the everyday experiences of people who work and live in this wealthy tourist community. Offering a new understanding of a little known class of the super-elite, of low-wage immigrants (mostly from Latin America) who have become the foundation for service and leisure in this famous resort, and of the recent history of the ski industry, Park and Pellow expose the ways in which Colorado boosters have reshaped the landscape and altered ecosystems in pursuit of profit and pleasure. Of even greater urgency, they frame how environmental degradation and immigration reform have become inextricably linked in many regions of the American West, a dynamic that interferes with the efforts of valorous environmental causes, often turning away from conservation and toward insidious racial privilege.
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Pellow, David, author.
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Nation of Nations ; ; 2
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Table of Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Logic of Aspen
2 The Ultimate Elite Retreat
3 Living in Someone Else's Paradise
4 Nativism and the Environmental Movement
5 Advocacy and Social Justice Workers
Conclusion
Notes on Our Research Methods
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction
1 The Logic of Aspen
2 The Ultimate Elite Retreat
3 Living in Someone Else's Paradise
4 Nativism and the Environmental Movement
5 Advocacy and Social Justice Workers
Conclusion
Notes on Our Research Methods
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors