Pushed out : contested development and rural gentrification in the US West
Title:
Pushed out : contested development and rural gentrification in the US West
Author:
Summary:
"What happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses? When new money comes in, who gets left behind? Pushed Out offers a rich portrait of Dover, Idaho, whose transformation from "thriving timber mill town" to "economically depressed small town" to "trendy second-home location" over the past four decades embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities. Sociologist Ryanne Pilgeram explores the structural forces driving rural gentrification and examines how social and environmental inequality are written onto these landscapes. Based on in-depth interviews and archival data, she grounds this highly readable ethnography in a long view of the region that takes account of geological history, settler colonialism, and histories of power and exploitation within capitalism. Pilgeram's analysis reveals the processes and mechanisms that make such communities vulnerable to gentrification and points the way to a radical justice that prioritizes the economic, social, and environmental sustainability necessary to restore these communities."-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
A brief history of the last 62 million years -- Water, water, everywhere -- Shit rolls downhill -- It's not over in Dover -- Anarchists on the beach -- A mill lake moment -- A tale of two Dovers.
Physical Description:
xv, 194 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 24 cm
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Publisher:
University of Washington Press,
Publication Date:
2021
ISBN:
9780295748689
9780295748696
Publication Information:
Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2021]
©2021
Call Number:
307.1 PILGERAM