Roundup: November 12, 2021
Recent Publications
A recent volume of the Journal of Affordable Housing & Community Development includes some excellent articles on vacant rural property and rural housing concerns, including Ann M. Eisenberg’s (Law, South Carolina) Market-Anticipatory Approaches to Rural Property Vacancy and Kelly Owen & Scott Crain’s (both Northwest Justice Project) Rural Housing in the Crosshairs: How USDA Affordable Housing is Targeted for Market Rate Conversion and What Advocated Can Do to Preserve It.
Sarah Ruth Sippel published a joint review of Madeleine Fairbairn’s Fields of Gold: Financing the Global Land Rush and Stefan Ouma’s Farming as Financial Asset: Global Finance and the Making of Institutional Landscapes in Agrarian Questions.
Ahmed A. Arif, Oluwaseun Adeyemi, Sarah B. Laditka, James N. Laditka (all Public Health Sciences, University of North Carolina at Charlotte), and Tyrone Borders (Nursing, University of Kentucky) published Suicide Mortality Rates in Farm-related Occupations and the Agriculture Industry in the United States in the American Journal of Industrial Medicine.
Andrew Flachs (Anthropology, Purdue) published Charisma and Agrarian Crisis: Authority and Legitimacy at Multiple Scales for Rural Development in the Journal of Rural Studies.
News & Commentary
Taylor Brorby has published Boys and Oil: Growing Up Gay in a Fractured Land, an “honest memoir about growing up gay amidst the harshness of rural North Dakota.”
In this collection on The Daily Yonder, Liz Carey explores how monsters, myths, and legends provide a look at the unique culture and community of rural places.
Jared Strone published a piece on an Iowa farm co-op’s $6,000 fine for ammonia discharge.
The World Bank Group has published a study entitled Socioeconomic Transition in the Appalachia Coal Region: Some Factors of Success.
Thanks, also, to The Daily Yonder for highlighting the Rural Reconciliation Project in this article, Research Examining Rural America Asks Tough Questions About the Past and Future.
Events & Recordings
A recording of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Heuermann Lecture titled Myth Busting: Cattle and Climate is available here.