Roundup: June 7, 2021
Recent Publications
Alexandra Aylward (Montana State University-Bozman), Brenda Barrio (University of North Texas), and Catherine Kramarczuk Voulgarides (CUNY) have published Exclusion from Educational Opportunity in Diversifying Rural Context in Rural Sociology. This article explores the issuance of federal citations for racial/ethnic disproportionality within special education in rural school districts in New York.
Emily Reisman (University of Buffalo) and Madeleine Fairbairn (University of California, Santa Cruz) published Agri-Food Systems and the Anthropocene in The Annals of the American Association of Geographers.
Bradley R. Finney has published Agricultural Law Stifles Innovation and Competition in the Alabama Law Review. This article argues agricultural exceptionalism stifles technological innovations related to water pollution and hinders competition within the agricultural industry. Finney calls for changes that more fairly apportion liability, encourage the agricultural industry to adapt its operations, and spur competition.
Anja Jorgensen, Mia Arp Fallov, and Rikke Skovgaard Nielsen (all of Aalborg University) have published ‘Just ask Eric’: On the Importance of Governance Efficacy, Territorial Ties and Heterogenous Networks for Rural Development in Sociologia Ruralis. The authors build on interviews from rural Denmark to explore “how referential features of group life (spatial areas, relations, shared pasts) generate action.”
News & Commentary
Shoshanah Inwood, Andrea Rissing, and Florence Becot (all of Ohio State) published Family Farms are Struggling with Two Hidden Challenges: Health Insurance and Child Care in The Conversation.
Raj Patel published Why Aren’t We Talking About Farmers in India? in the Boston Review. The article asserts the importance of ensuring the Modi administration does not choke discussion of proposed agricultural alternatives.
As part of LPE’s symposium on the Law and Political Economy of Meat, Nathan Rosenberg and Bryce Wilson Stucki published Don’t Trust the Antitrust Narrative on Farms. Claire Kelloway and Sandeep Vaheesan published Antimonopoly is about Democratizing the Food System (and the Rest of the Economy) in response.
Events
The University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznan, Poland is hosting an online international academic conference on June 30, 2021. The title is Agricultural, Food, and Environmental Law in the Face of Challenges Regarding Food Security. Details are here.
West Virginia University Libraries hosted a virtual conversation with Nicholas Stump (WVU Law), the author of Remaking Appalachia. A recording is available here.