Kimberly E. Zarecor: La vida en pequeñas ciudades en declive
Life in Shrinking Small Towns: Politics and Place in the American Midwest.
Small rural towns are losing population worldwide due to the changing global economy, and their residents often feel neglected. This has led many of them into the arms of populist politicians who promise a return to old ways of life. The results can be seen in the United States with the election of Donald Trump and in Europe with the current leaders of many countries, including Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The neoliberal response has been to support economic growth strategies as the only positive path forward and to view the declining population as the main cause of problems in these towns. This lecture will focus on a new research project that offers an alternative answer to the shrinking small settlements in a landscape coming to terms with depopulation, emphasizing better strategies such as improving quality of life, interpersonal relationships, and supporting community initiatives.
Kimberly E. Zarecor is a professor of architecture at Iowa State University, where she teaches architecture and design. She holds an M.Arch. and Ph.D. in architecture from Columbia University. She is the author of Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) / Utváření socialistické modernity: bydlení v Československu v letech 1945-1960 (Academia, 2015). Her work has also been published in edited volumes, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogs. She is currently researching and writing about areas with shrinking populations, postsocialist industrial towns in the former Soviet bloc, and small rural communities in the American Midwest.
The lecture is open to the public.
Small rural towns are losing population worldwide due to the changing global economy, and their residents often feel neglected. This has led many of them into the arms of populist politicians who promise a return to old ways of life. The results can be seen in the United States with the election of Donald Trump and in Europe with the current leaders of many countries, including Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic. The neoliberal response has been to support economic growth strategies as the only positive path forward and to view the declining population as the main cause of problems in these towns. This lecture will focus on a new research project that offers an alternative answer to the shrinking small settlements in a landscape coming to terms with depopulation, emphasizing better strategies such as improving quality of life, interpersonal relationships, and supporting community initiatives.
Kimberly E. Zarecor is a professor of architecture at Iowa State University, where she teaches architecture and design. She holds an M.Arch. and Ph.D. in architecture from Columbia University. She is the author of Manufacturing a Socialist Modernity: Housing in Czechoslovakia, 1945-1960 (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2011) / Utváření socialistické modernity: bydlení v Československu v letech 1945-1960 (Academia, 2015). Her work has also been published in edited volumes, conference proceedings, and exhibition catalogs. She is currently researching and writing about areas with shrinking populations, postsocialist industrial towns in the former Soviet bloc, and small rural communities in the American Midwest.
The lecture is open to the public.
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