Roundup: October 1, 2021
Recent Publications
Elizabeth Weeks (Georgia Law) has published One Child Town: The Health Care Exceptionalism Case Against Agglomeration Economies in the Utah Law Review. This article dives directly into debates about “saving rural America” versus "facilitating migration away from dying places,” with a focus on rural health care as lens to interrogate these broader policy choices.
Alan Romero (Wyoming Law) has published Identifying Rural Roads in the Indiana Law Review. The article discusses the rules regarding the creation and elimination of public roads with a focus on county roads.
Audrey McFarlane’s (University of Baltimore Law) article Black Transit: When Public Transportation Decision-Making Leads to Negative Economic Development is forthcoming in the Iowa Law Review.
Quantitative Assessment of Agricultural Sustainability Reveals Divergent Priorities Among Nations has been published in One Earth. In an attempt to remedy the difficulty in defining and measuring sustainable agriculture, the article presents the Sustainable Agriculture Matrix (SAM), analyzes where progress is being made, and identifies priorities for needed improvement. An overview of the article has been published on the University of Maryland’s Center of Environmental Science Website.
Anelysa M. Weiler (Sociology, University of Victoria) has published Bridging Agrarianism: The Potential of Value-Added Craft Cider Production to Support Rural Livelihoods in the Pacific Northwest in Rural Sociology.
Kai A. Schafft (Education Policy Studies, Penn State) has published Rurality and Crises of Democracy: What Can Rural Sociology Offer the Present Moment? in Rural Sociology.
Achieving Food System Resilience Requires Challenging Dominant Land Property Regimes has been published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems.
Adrienne R. Brown (Sociology, University of New Hampshire) has published “Driving Down a Road and Not Knowing Where You’re At”: Navigating the Loss of Physical and Social Infrastructure After the Camp Fire in Rural Sociology.
Carrie Chennault (Anthropology & Geography, Colorado State) has published Relational Life: Lessons from Black Feminism on Whiteness and Engaging New Food Activism in Antipode.
News & Commentary
Chris Helzer published a look at what being a land manager requires in What Makes a Good Land Manager? on The Prairie Ecologist.
Jason Reynolds will serve for a third year as National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature and is set to embark on a tour to engage students in rural communities.
The Urban Institute has created a tool that offers insight into how to invest in rural communities available at Reenvisioning Rural America.
Colin Jerolmack has published They Couldn’t Drink Their Water. And Still, They Stayed Quiet. in The New York Times.
Ryan McCrimmon published a piece in Politico discussing how Covid-19 showed why America’s cheap and efficient meat supply might be a problem.
The Fort Dodge, Iowa-based New Cooperative Inc. was hacked by a cybercrime cell. David Uberti (Wall Street Journal) and Jacob Bogage and Laura Reiley (The Washington Post) published stories on the cyberattack.
The University of Arizona Center for Rural Health has published its September 2021 newsletter. Related to rural health, the University of Iowa Injury Prevention Research Center’s section on rural injuries provides many resources.
Events & Recordings
The 2022 Agriculture, Food, and Human Values Society and Association for the Study of Food and Society Conference is entitled “Cultivating Connections: Exploring Entry Points into Sustainable Food Systems” and will take place May 18-22, 2022. Registration and more information available here.
The Sustainable Economies Law Center hosted a panel discussion on approaches to democratic governance entitled “You’re (Not) the Boss of Me” on September 28th at 1:30 pm PDT. More information here.