Roundup: October 15, 2021
Recent Publications
Alexandra Aylward (Education, Montana State University), Brenda Barrio (Educational Psychology, University of North Texas), and Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides (Special Education, City University of New York) published Exclusion from Educational Opportunity in Diversifying Rural Contexts in Rural Sociology.
Lingxi Chenyang (Environmental Law Fellow, Indiana University), Andrew Currie (Yale School of the Environment), Hannah Darrin (Yale School of the Environment), and Nathan Rosenberg (Iowa Law) published Farming with Trees: Reforming U.S. Farm Policy to Expand Agroforestry and Mitigate Climate Change in Ecology Law Quarterly.
Jason Robison (Wyoming Law), Matthew McKinney (Center for Natural Resources & Environmental Policy, University of Montana), and Daryl Vigil (Water Administrator, Jacarilla Apache Nation) published Community in the Colorado River Basin in the Idaho Law Review.
Allison E. Ford (Sociology, Sonoma State University) published “They Will Be Like a Swarm of Locusts”: Race, Rurality, and Settler Colonialism in American Prepping Culture in Rural Sociology.
Philip A. Loring (Geography, Environment, and Geomatics, University of Guelph), Hannah L. Harrison (Geography, Environment, and Geomatics, University of Guelph), Valencia Gaspard (Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan), Sarah Minnes (Geography, Environment, and Geomatics, University of Guelph), and Helen M. Baulch (Environment and Sustainability, University of Saskatchewan) published Science, Data, and the Struggle for Standing in Environmental Governance in Society & Natural Resources.
Laura A. Bray (Sociology and Anthropology, North Carolina State University) published Settler Colonialism and Rural Environmental Injustice: Water Inequality on the Navajo Nation in Rural Sociology.
News & Commentary
Ashton Merck and Victoria Plutshack reflect on the lessons that can be gleaned from the New Deal-era Rural Electrification Administration (REA) in Biden’s Infrastructure Success Depends on Implementation, Not Just Ideas in The Washington Post.
Caroline Tremblay published Radically Rural: Tapping into the Rural Arts Ecosystem of Tomorrow in The Daily Yonder.
Mojtaba Sadegh, Ali Mirchi, Amir AghaKouchak, and Kaveh Madani published Avoiding Water Bankruptcy in the Drought-Troubled Southwest: What the US and Iran Can Learn from Each Other in The Conversation.
A new episode of Digging a Hole: The Legal Theory Podcast features Daniel B. Rodriguez (Northwestern Law) and Miriam Seifter (Wisconsin Law), the SLoG Law Blog, and the State Democracy Research Initiative.
The National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition’s Blog recently featured a guest post entitled Crop Insurance Rules Challenge Organic and Sustainable Farming Practices.
A consortium of scholars, led by a group at Purdue, was awarded $10 million for #DiverseCornBelt project to make Midwestern agriculture more resilient by diversifying farms, marketing and the agricultural landscape. Concerns that the project hopes to address can be found in The Urgency of Transforming the Midwestern U.S. Landscape into More than Corn and Soybean published in Agriculture and Human Values.
Mallory Daily published Tourism vs. FACOs: A New Front in the Fight Against Industrial Animal Ag in Civil Eats.
Dan Nosowitz published Agriculture Beg the Question: Is the Industry Secure? on the security of agriculture in light of recent cyberattacks on Midwestern farm cooperatives.
The Poverty of Broadband Infrastructure in Nunavut Can and Must Be Ended by Alexandra Flynn on the Centre for Free Expression’s Blog.
Events & Recordings
The Urban Institute hosted an event entitled “What Does It Take To Transform Persistent Rural Poverty into Opportunity” on October 13th from 2:30 PM to 3:30 PM. More information available here.