Roundup: July 13, 2021
Recent Publications
Daniel Lichter (Cornell), Domenico Parisi (Mississippi State), and Michael Taqunio (Mississippi State) published Inter-County Migration and the Spaital Concentration of Poverty: Comparing Metro and Nonmetro Patterns in Rural Sociology.
In Neolocalism and Beyond—Sexing Up Rural Places, Tuomas Hokaniemi, Henna Syrjälä, Niklas Lundström, and Arto Rajala (all University of Vassa) examine the marketing of rural Finland.
Jeffrey Selbin (UC-Berkley), Gus Tupper (Policy Advocacy Clinic), and Cristina Mendez (Policy Advocacy Clinic) published Blood from a Turnip: Money as Punishment in Idaho in the Idaho Law Review.
In Defining Dependence: The Natural Resource Community Typology, J. Tom Mueller (Utah State University) focuses on what it means for communities to be dependent on natural resource development.
Elizabeth Tsang, Jessica Barnes, and Ashley Dayer (all of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) published A Web-Based Approach to Stakeholder Analysis for Identifying and Understanding Broader Constituencies in Wildlife Conservation in Society & Natural Resources.
News & Commentary
Adam Liptak published Supreme Court Rules Against Union Recruiting on California Farms in the New York Times
William Rinehart published The Digital Divide, Digital Equity, and the Nature of the Problem, the second post in a series exploring access to broadband. The first post is available here.
Darryl Fears published A Harvest for the World, a piece on Leah Penniman’s work fighting racism in agriculture.
Dirck Steimel published this report for Iowa Farm Bureau on Iowa farmers’ usage of cover crops.
Events
For scholars working under the broad law and rurality umbrella, please be sure to check out the recently posted Call For Papers for the Project’s upcoming Law and Rurality Workshop, co-hosted (and really led) by Hannah Haksgaard at the University of South Dakota Knudson School of Law. The virtual workshop is October 29, 2021, and submissions are due August 20, 2021. Post with more information on this page.