In Growing Superdiverse, Growing Apart – Modes of Incorporation of International Migrants in Rural Areas, authors Jakub Stachowski and Bente Rasmussen (both of the Department of Sociology and Political Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway) analyze rural resident perceptions of international migration.

In “Sustainable development and sacrifice in the rural North,” author Arvid Stiernström (Department of Urban and Rural Development, Division of Rural Development, Institutionen för stad och land, Uppsala, Sweden) examines the narratives and concepts used surrounding mining in rural communities.

Second in our series of infographics produced in Emily Prifogle's Law in Rural America seminar is by Alaska native and recent graduate of Michigan Law, Mitchel Forbes, with thoughts on "over-goverance" in rural Alaska and tips for dissolving local municipal governments:

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.

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.