Roundup: February 15, 2021
Ganesh Sitaraman, Morgan Ricks, and Christopher Serkin (all of Vanderbilt Law) have posted, Regulation and the Geography of Inequality, forthcoming in the Duke Law Journal. The authors argue that increasing growth in so-called superstar cities - often at the expense of rural and other left-behind places - is not simply the result of “inexorable economic trends” but rather stems from a series of regulatory choices that have been made in areas of transportation, communications, trade, and antitrust. To address growing geographic inequality, the authors argue for “reincorporating geographic factors into federal regulatory policymaking in transportation, communications, trade, antitrust, and other domains.”
Friend of the Project Adam Calo (if you missed his powerful recent talk as part of our ongoing Rural Law and Policy seminar series, you can view it here) has now launched his new podcast, Landscapes. The first episode includes an interview with the also-fabulous Malcolm Combe (Strathclyde, Law) about Scottish land reform and, more generally, the role of property law in shaping rural landscapes. It is so good. Highly recommend.
The University of Iowa’s Injury Prevention Research Center has chimed in with an essay on how rural might be defined for public health purpose—or, more specifically, for purposes of addressing rural injuries and violence.
Caroline Nye (Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter) has just published The Farm Worker and the ‘Drift to the Land’. Roots, Routes, Opportunities and Constraints to Career Pathways in Farming in the Journal of Rural Studies.
The BBC has some thoughts on why the world is “running out of farmers.”
Upcoming Events
Colorado Humanities is hosting a community conversation event entitled, Change in Rural Colorado, from 7-9pm CST on February 24, 2021. More information, including free registration, here.
The Brunnier Art Museum at Iowa State University has opened a new special exhibit entitled, Compelling Ground: Landscapes, Environments, and Peoples of Iowa, which will be available from Monday, January 25 through Friday, July 23, 2021. More information, including about an accompanying interdisciplinary publication, here.