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Title: “Not Allowed to Inherit My Kingdom”: Amenity Development and Social Inequality in the Rural West
Citation Type: Journal Article
Publication Year: 2018
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Abstract: This article, based on 84 in-depth interviews and 10 months of ethnography, focuses on the rural Washington community of “Paradise Valley,” whose economic bases in mining, ranching, and logging declined by the end of the twentieth century. Recently, economic development has focused on amenity-based tourism and second-home ownership, as well as attracting wealthy in-migrants. Job growth has been concentrated in construction and service sectors, particularly low-paid, part-time, and seasonal jobs in hospitality, retail, and food services. The community has changed from a relatively homogenous population of working-class residents to a more diverse and divided community. The article explores outcomes of these changes, including gentrification and housing shortages, unemployment and underemployment, and a social divide in which the community's longtime and working-class residents are marginalized. I explore these social consequences of amenity-based development, illustrating the ways in which the social divide is reproduced and the gradual disenfranchisement of those with roots in earlier social and economic systems in the valley, focusing on the changing meanings and uses of different types of symbolic capital.
Url: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ruso.12168/full
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Authors: Sherman, Jennifer
Periodical (Full): Rural Sociology
Issue: 83
Volume: 83
Pages: 174-207
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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Migration and Immigration
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