024 - Justin Farrell - Billionare Wilderness

A conversation with sociologist Justin Farrell about his book, Billionaire Wilderness: The Ultra-Wealthy and the Remaking of the American West (Princeton University Press, 2020).   Justin Farrell is associate professor of Sociology in the Yale School of the Environment. He is also the author of The Battle for Yellowstone: Morality and the Sacred Roots of Environmental Conflict, published by Princeton University Press in 2015. To view the new research on COVID-19 in the rural west, mentioned at the end of this episode, visit www.CovidRuralWest.org. ----more----  Podcast Notes: Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Associate Director of the Redd Center, an Associate Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University. Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.