Roundup: September 17, 2021
Recent Publications
Ian Carrillo (Sociology, University of Oklahoma), Katrina Quisumbing King (Sociology, Northwestern University), and Kai A. Schafft (Education Policy Studies, Penn State) have published an editorial and Introduction to a special issue of Rural Sociology on Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty-First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings. The issue promises to interrogate popular imaginings of rural America as primarily a “white space” and more roboustly engage with dynamics of race, space, and rurality. Must read and follow.
Steven Deller (Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin), Brian Whitacre (Agricultural Economics, Oklahoma State), and Tessa Conroy (Agricultural and Applied Economics, University of Wisconsin) published Rural Broadband Speeds and Business Startup Rates in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. This article affirms, via quantitative analysis, “that access to broadband is increasingly relevant to rural entrepreneurship.”
Erik Gómez-Baggethun (International Environment and Development Studies, Norwegian University of Life Science) published Is There a Future for Indigenous and Local Knowledge? In The Journal of Peasant Studies.
Kaily Heitz (Geography, UC- Berkeley) published Sunflower’s Oakland: The Black Geographic Image as a Site of Reclamation in Antipode.
Diane Charlton (Agricultural Economics & Economics, Montana State), Alexander James (Economics, University of Alaska), and Brock Smith (Agricultural Economics & Economics, Montana State) published Seasonal Agricultural Activity and Crime in the American Journal of Agricultural Economics.
Regina Lafuente (Institute for Advanced Social Studies, Spanish National Research Council), Pilar Paneque (Geography, History and Philosophy, University Pablo de Olavide), and Jose Luis Cañadas (R-Hispano Community, Madrid) published The Gender Gap in Water Management Preferences: Analyzing the Influence of Environmental Concern and Political Knowledge in Society & Natural Resources.
News & Commentary
A group of diverse law professors from around the country have launched The State & Local Government Law Blog (SLoG Law Blog). David Schleicher (Yale Law) has posted this early piece discussing the scope of the blog and providing some related introductions.
Casey Parks published a poignant look at the struggles facing schools in The Tragedy of American’s Rural Schools in The New York Times.
NPR’s The Indicator from Planet Money has a new five-part series on the water crises in the American West. The first episode is available here.
Jena Brooker published Does Rural Illinois Really Need a New Gas Pipeline? in Grist.
Mary Hennigan published A Consolidated Market Leaves Ranchers Wondering What’s Next in AgWeek.
Tim Marema published Nearly 80% of Rural Farming-Dependent Counties Lost Population in Last Decade in The Daily Yonder.