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Slums of Aspen Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden

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ISBN-10: 1479834769

ISBN-13: 9781479834761

Edition: 2013

Authors: Lisa Sun-Hee Park, David Pellow

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Environmentalism 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…    
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Book details

List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: New York University Press
Publication date: 7/22/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 284
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English

John DeLamater is Conway-Bascom Professor of Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, co-author of Understanding Human Sexuality, 11th Edition .Lisa Sun-Hee Park is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Consuming Citizenship: Children of Asian Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the co-author, with David Pellow, of The Slums of Aspen: Immigrants vs. the Environment in America's Eden and Silicon Valley of Dreams: Immigrant Labor, Environmental Injustice, and the High Tech Global Economy , also available from NYU Press.

Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: Environmental Privilege in the Rocky Mountains
The Logic of Aspen
The Ultimate Elite Retreat
Living in Someone Else's Paradise
Nativism and the Environmental Movement
Advocacy and Social Justice Workers
Conclusion: Dreams of Privilege/Visions of Justice
Notes on Research Methods
Notes
References
Index
About the Authors