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Idaho Humanities Council Inquiring Idaho Speaker: Ryanne Pilgeram
Friday, January 24th at 6:00pm
Presenting on her book, Pushed Out, this presentation focuses on what happens to rural communities when their traditional economic base collapses and new money comes in. This presentation offers Dover, Idaho, as a case study of transformation from “thriving timber mill town” to “economically depressed small town” to “trendy second-home location” and discusses how Dover embodies the story and challenges of many other rural communities.
The presentation 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, the presentation uses an ethnographic lens to put this story in a long view of the region that takes account of geological history, settler colonialism, and histories of power and exploitation within capitalism. With a focus on the processes and mechanisms that make communities vulnerable to gentrification, the conversation that follows the presentation is an opportunity for communities to discuss the future of their homes with an eye toward the economic, social, and environmental sustainability necessary to building thriving rural places.
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
218 E Park St, McCall, ID, United States, Idaho 83638
