The Rural Review
An online journal produced in conjunction with the Rural Reconciliation Project.
The Rural Review publishes digests of important academic contributions, program information, blog-style commentary, and periodic roundups of rural items from across academic disciplines and scholarly media.
Contributions from interested authors are welcome. Find our author guidelines here.
Young and Billings: The Data on Civil Justice Needs in Rural America and Beyond
This digest summarizes recent empirical research by Young and Billings on civil access to justice needs, considering the impact of intersectional identity factors from queerness to disability, rurality, and parental status.
Comfort: Political Macroenvironments and Cultural Information Protection
This digest summarizes recent research by Comfort on governmental communication within tribal nations in the US, with a focus on environmental and natural resource issues.
Eisenberg: Rural Disaffection & the Regulatory State
This digest summarizes recent legal scholarship by Ann Eisenbergy article that argues we should take seriously rural political alienation and disaffection as symptoms, at least in part, of legitimate objections to both regulatory overreach and, in some cases, abandonment. She frames rural tensions as calling for a response based on governmental legitimacy and fairness for all.