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.
Statz: How to Address Rural Access to Justice
In The Scandal of Particularity: A New Approach to Rural Attorney Shortages and Access to Justice, author Michele Statz (Minnesota Medical School/Law) discusses the challenges of fully understanding the rural attorney shortage and its impact on rural communities through interviews from those involved in the justice system in various rural and tribal communities.
Roundup: June 19, 2024
A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.
Call for Papers: Law and Rurality Workshop
Announcing the Fall 2024 Law and Ruraity Workshop Call or Papers. Workshop on Friday, November 15, 2024, and submission deadline of August 16, 2024.
Reading List: Reckoning with Rural Pasts
A reading list of rural-related literature curated by the Rural Reconciliation Project. This collection focuses on rural violence and notions of justice in rural communities.
Roundup: May 10, 2024
A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.
Dana Fritz: Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape (video)
Event announcement. Join Dana Fritz, Hixson-Lied Professor of Art, Art History and Design, for an important reflection on how humans make, shape, and understand landscapes. Like a virtual fieldtrip to the Nebraska Sandhills, but through the lens of the most thoughtful and introspective of guides, visual artist Fritz will discuss and share photographs from her new book, “Field Guide to a Hybrid Landscape.” The book examines, in provocative ways, the unique hand-planted forest of the Bessey Ranger District and now includes some of the last images captured before the 2022 wildfires near Halsey. Event on February 21, 2024, at 4pm at the University of Nebraska College of Law.
Roundup: April 19, 2024
A periodic collection of recent research, analysis, and other notable rural items.
Turnock & Mulrooney: Image and Performance Enhancing Drug Usage and Services in Rural Regions
In Exploring the Impacts of Rurality on Service Access and Harm Among Image and Performance Enhancing Drug (IPED) Users in a Remote English Region, Luke A. Turnock (Social and Political Sciences, University of Lincoln, UK) and Kyle J. D. Mulrooney (Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, University of New England, Australia) consider the underexplored geographic and cultural impacts of rurality on IPED usage, particularly in relation to access to harm reduction service.
