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Exploring environmental privilege in Aspen

“If environmental racism and injustice are abundant and we can readily observe them around the world, then surely the same can be said for environmental privilege,” they state in the book’s introduction. “We cannot have one without the other; they are two sides of the same coin.”

And the sociology professors suggest an image of Aspen should be on one side of that coin.

“We believe in order to understand poverty we need to go not to the ghetto but to Aspen; in order to understand the Mexican border and immigration politics, we need to move beyond the barrios and instead go to Aspen; in order to understand the ugliness of racism and nativism, we need to go to Aspen,” they write.

The pair of academics found that the inequalities of Aspen “are stark and ever present. The visual images that gloss Aspen magazine covers feature stretch Range Rover limousines, black-tie fund-raisers, world-class ski slopes, and film celebrities who live part of the year in multimillion dollar, single-family homes.

The authors of “The Slums of Aspen” say that the resort’s slums are best represented by the crowded and dilapidated mobile home parks between Basalt and Parachute where many local Latino workers live. But while their research showed them that Aspen’s slums are indeed slums in the traditional sense, the sociologists say it’s now more important to look at the top of the Roaring Fork River valley.

“The case of Aspen illustrates the importance of understanding poverty and environmental inequality by getting out of the ghetto and into places where racial and economic privilege are enjoyed,” the pair of academics write in “The Slums of Aspen.” “That certain communities face greater environmental harm is indeed a social problem, but the accompanying social problem is that others benefit from this harm through environmental privilege.”

And they say resolutions passed in 1999 and 2000 by Aspen and Pitkin County demanding federal limits on immigration were racist and hypocritical given the resort’s heavy reliance on Latino workers to make beds, cook meals and mow lawns.

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