Rural Sociology

Papers
(The median citation count of Rural Sociology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage*24
The Gendered Spaces and Experiences of Female Faculty in Colleges of Agriculture*23
Exclusion from Educational Opportunity in Diversifying Rural Contexts*21
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Rural Issues20
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Liminal Belonging in El Nuevo South: The Geographies of Inclusion and Exclusion for Hispanic Young Adults within Northwest Arkansas*17
Perspectives of Agroforestry Practitioners on Agroforestry Adoption: Case Study of Selected SARE Participants☆16
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Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline☆13
2024 RSS Presidential Address: Reconceptualizing Rurality and Nurturing Rural Sociological Souls☆13
The Enduring Price of Place: Revisiting the Rural Cost of Living☆13
Rural College Graduates: Who Comes Home?*12
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridg12
Differential Access in Mortgage Credit: The Role of Neighborhood Spatial and Racial Stratification11
Geographical Tensions Within Municipalities? Evidence from Swedish Local Governments☆11
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Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences, by HughCampbell, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 216 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐3501‐2054‐9.11
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras*11
The End of the Village, by Nick R.Smith, Barnard College: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 324 pp. $27.00 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1092‐1.10
Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster*8
Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America☆8
The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindness, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest☆8
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Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults' Intentions to Stay for Employment☆8
Narratives and Self‐Reflective Process of Lifestyle Migrants: The Quest for the “Good Life”*8
Mind the Gaps: Examining Youth's Reading, Math and Science Skills Across Northern and Rural Canada*7
Wild Wind, Social Storm: “Energy Populism” in Rural Areas? An Exploratory Analysis of France and Italy*7
Building a Resilient Twenty‐First‐Century Economy for Rural America, by Don E.Albrecht, Logan, UT: Utah State University Press, 2020. 218 pp. $21.95 (paper). ISBN:978‐1‐60732‐941‐1.6
The Watersheds Speak: The Voice of Ecosystems in Northern New York's Environmental Movements☆6
State Populism in Rural Hungary*6
Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First, by TerryLeahy, New York: Routledge, 2019. 246 pp. $42.36 (paper). ISBN:9780367665753.6
The Dignity of Nonworking Men*5
Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West*5
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Influence of Internet Use on Farmers' Low‐Carbon Production Practices: The Mediating Role of Capital Endowment☆5
Cosmopolitan Rurality, Depopulation, and Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in 21st‐Century Japan, by John W.Traphagan, Amherst: Cambria Press, 2020. 296 pp. $109.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐62196‐502‐2.5
School Closures and Rural Population Decline*5
No One Size Fits All. Women Commercial Farm Employment and Fertility in Ethiopia: A Study of Saudi Star and MERTI Agricultural Development Farms☆5
“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life*5
Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach☆5
Ethnoracial Diversity and Segregation in U.S. Rural School Districts*4
The Role of ICT in Maintaining Social Cohesion: Understanding the Potential of Digital Initiatives for Social Networks in Rural Areas☆4
Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age—An Island Perspective*4
Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi‐Factored Phenomenon☆4
Centering Indigenous Brilliance in “The Stories We Tell”☆4
Global Markets, Risk, and Organized Irresponsibility in Regional Australia: Emergent Cosmopolitan Identities Among Local Food Producers in the Liverpool Plains☆4
Inter‐County Migration and the Spatial Concentration of Poverty: Comparing Metro and Nonmetro Patterns*4
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Modernization, Political Economy, and Limits to Blue Growth: A Cross‐National, Panel Regression Study (1975–2016)*3
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Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965, by CherisseJones‐Branch, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2021. 227 pp. $29.96 (cloth). ISBN:3
The Expanding Search for Work: The Gender Gap in Livelihood Choices among the Rural Chinese, from 1989 to 2015☆3
Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆3
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy: Appalachian Medical Student Perceptions of Practice☆3
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge University Press, 2020. 33
Class and Vulnerability to Debt in Rural India: A Statistical Overview*3
Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan☆3
COVID‐19 in Rural America: Impacts of Politics and Disadvantage*2
A Fair Comparison: Women's and Men's Farms at Seven Scales in the United States☆2
Rural Development in the Digital Age: Exploring Information and Communication Technology through Social Inclusion☆2
Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self‐Rated Health in the Amazon*2
The Farming Question: Intergenerational Linkages, Gender and Youth Aspirations in Rural Zambia☆2
Reversing the Gaze: Developing Indigenous and Western Media Frames to Compare Coverage of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the News Media*2
The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile☆2
The Cambridge Handbook of Environmental Sociology, edited byKatharineLegun, Julie C.Keller, MichaelCarolan and Michael M.Bell, New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2020. 1200 pp. $360 (2 Volume H2
“You're Poor, so You're Not Going to Do Anything:” Socioeconomic Status and Capital Accumulation as a Means to Access Higher Education for Rural Youth☆2
How Rural is Rural Populism? On the Spatial Understanding of Rurality for Analyses of Right‐wing Populist Election Success in Germany*2
Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan, by KimikoTanaka and Nan E.Johnson, Durham, North Carolina:Carolina Academic Press, 2021. 168 pp. $30 SC. ISBN: 9781531018610.2
Seeing Green: Lifecycles of an Arctic Agricultural Frontier☆2
“Can I Speak to the Bossman?” Sources of Stress, Behavioral Adaptations, and Role Incongruency in Female Farmers☆2
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Eliminating Stereotypes: Villages as Desirable Spaces for Partying among Spanish Youth☆2
Market Concentration and Natural Resource Development in Rural America2
The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture, by Karen E.Hayden, New York: Lexington Books, 2022. Paperback $39.99. ISBN: 978‐1‐4985‐4762‐8.2
Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations☆2
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From Brexit to VOX: Populist Policy Narratives about Rurality in Europe and the Populist Challenges for the Rural‐Urban Divide*2
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Young Women's and Men's Opportunity Spaces in Dairy Intensification in Kenya*2
“People that are Supporting [the] Whole Sector are on their Knees”; Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Change are Occupational Stressors for Irish Farmers☆2
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Village England: A Social History of the Countryside, by TrevorWild, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. xix + 204 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐350‐17726‐0.1
Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development, by K.Philip, James Currey, Suffolk: Woodbridge, 2018.1
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“Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?”: Underground Landscapes & Place‐Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities☆1
Fractured Communities: Risk, Impacts, and Protest Against Hydraulic Fracking in U.S. Shale Regions, edited by Anthony E.Ladd, New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2018. 303 pp. $33.95 (paper). ISB1
Eco‐Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World*1
Community Landscape Preferences for Reuse of Soviet‐Era Post‐Agricultural Brownfields—What's the Difference?*1
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Jim Crow Sociology: The Black and Southern Roots of American Sociology, byEarl WrightII, Cincinnati, OH: University of Cincinnati Press, 2020. 250 pp. $50.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐947602‐57‐1.1
Performing Rurality in Online Community Groups*1
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Exploring Climate Change Perspectives. An Analysis of Undergraduate Students' Place‐Based Attachment in Appalachia, USA1
Rural Residence, Motorcycle Access, and Contraception Use in South and Southeast Asia☆1
Successful Aging in a Rural Community in Japan, by KimikoTanaka and Nan E.Johnson, Kawanehonchō: Carolina Academic Press, 2021. 168 pp. $30 SC. ISBN: 9781531018610.1
Student Debt and Geographic Disadvantage: Disparities by Rural, Suburban, and Urban Background*1
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Advances in Rural Criminology: A Review of Three Recently Published Books1
The Changing Landscape of Affordable Housing in the Rural and Urban United States, 1990–2016*1
Bridging Agrarianism: The Potential of Value‐Added Craft Cider Production to Support Rural Livelihoods in the Pacific Northwest*1
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Rurality and Crises of Democracy: What Can Rural Sociology Offer the Present Moment?*1
Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry: A Gender‐Sensitive Comparison of Farmer and Farmworker Perspectives☆1
Freedom Farmers: Agricultural Resistance and the Black Freedom Movement, by Monica M.White, Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018. 208 pp. $14.99 (e‐book). ISBN: 978‐1‐4696‐4370‐0.0
Remittances and Livestock Management in Agropastoral Households in Rural Kyrgyzstan: Telecoupled Impacts of Globalization☆0
Gene‐Edited Food Adoption Intentions and Institutional Trust in the United States: Benefits, Acceptance, and Labeling☆0
For the Children: Notions of Childhood in Women's Narratives of Home in Rural Newfoundland*0
Groundwater Citizenship: Well Owners, Environmentalism, and the Depletion of the High Plains Aquifer, by BrockTernes, New York, NY: Lexington Books, 2022. 224 pp. Hardback $100, e‐book $45. ISBN (Hard0
Countryside, Borderlands, Nature—Public Art beyond the City☆0
Farmers' Social Capital in Agricultural Decision‐Making☆0
“The Volunteering Days is Gone”: All‐Hazard Incarcerated Firefighters and Rural Disinvestment☆0
Population Redistribution Trends in Nonmetropolitan America, 2010 to 2021☆0
China's New Urbanization: Inequality and the New Chinese Dream, by JiabaoSun, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. 167 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐8386‐0776‐0.0
Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference☆0
Bank on it: Do Local Banks Contribute to Rural Community Prosperity?*0
Labor and Sustainability: The Role of Farm Labor Practices in Shaping Antibiotic Use☆0
Rural Lifestyles and Life Politics: Reimagining Modernity in the Development of a Future Village in China0
Indigenous Perspectives on Dismantling the Legacies of Settler Colonialism in Rural Sociology☆0
The Geology, Ecology, and Human History of the San Luis Valley, by Jared MaxwellBeeton, Charles NicholasSaenz, and Benjamin JamesWaddell, Louisville: University Press of Colorado, 2020. 518 pp. $36.950
Informal Modes of Social Support among Residents of the Rural American West during the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆0
Exploring Distressed Cashew‐Nut Farmland Rentals Among Ethnic Groups in Binh Phuoc Province, Vietnam0
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Bonding Social Capital of Rural Women in Southwest Iran: Application of Social Network Analysis*0
Misrecognition and Well‐being in Culturally White Northern New England☆0
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Physical Separation, Social Distance, and Kinship Sentiments: An Exploration of Rural Parent–Teacher Relations in China0
Hardship in the Heartland: Associations Between Rurality, Income, and Material Hardship*0
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Emerging Post‐Carbon Productivism and Rural Transformation—A Case of Aquavoltaic Policy in Taiwan*0
Testing and Expanding the Concept of Traditional and Contemporary Localism in Rural Local Food Systems with Ozark Wild Harvesters☆0
Sustainable Agri‐Food Systems: Case Studies in Transitions Towards Sustainability from France and Brazil, by ClaireLamine, London: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2021. 208 pp. $115.00 (hardback). ISB0
The Lies of the Land: Seeing Rural America for What It Is—And Isn't, by StevenConn, Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press, 2023. 320 pp. $29.00 (cloth). ISBN: 978‐0‐226‐82690‐5.0
“Driving Down a Road and Not Knowing Where You're At”: Navigating the Loss of Physical and Social Infrastructure After the Camp Fire*0
Political Minority Identity Maintenance and Parenting in a Rural Small Town☆0
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Spatializing Solidarity: Agricultural Cooperatives as Solidarity Transformers in Cuba*0
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A Growing Willow: The Six Rs Indigenous Research Framework—Stories of the Native American Faculty Journey in STEM*0
“They Will Be Like a Swarm of Locusts”: Race, Rurality, and Settler Colonialism in American Prepping Culture*0
Data‐Driven Sustainability: Metrics, Digital Technologies, and Governance in Food and Agriculture*0
Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post‐COVID‐19 Pandemic☆0
The Link between Internet Activity and Community Experience in Rural Utah☆0
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What's Good for the Land is Good for the Farmer: Investigating Conservation‐Related Variables as Predictors of Farmers' Job Satisfaction☆0
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Climate Change, Agrarian Distress, and the Feminization of Agriculture in South Asia*0
Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance☆0
“Homophobia” in the Country? Rural America and the Stigmatization ofLGBTQPeople: An Empirical Test of Norm‐Centered Stigma Theory0
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Barriers of Women in Acquiring Leadership Positions in Agricultural Cooperatives: The Case of Cambodia☆0
Right‐Wing Rural Populisms: Comparative Analysis of Two European Regions*0
Towards an Emplaced Vocabulary of Motive: Senses of Place and Land Sale Decision‐Making in the Northern Great Plains*0
“Go Back To Where You Came From!”: Moral Economy of Land and the Politics of Belonging in Coastal Tanzania☆0
How Gender Dynamics Shape Off‐farm Work in Upland Southwest China☆0
Brokering Rural Community Food Security: An Organizational Network Case Study in Central Appalachia*0
Critical Rural Theory: A Decade of Influence on Rural Education Research☆0
The Chain of Equivalent Demands in the Rise of Rural Neo‐populism. Introduction to Special Issue0
Growing Food, Feeding Disease: Primary Sector Specialization and Malaria Incidence in Less‐Developed Countries0
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Does Increasing Ethnic Diversity Challenge the Rural Idyll? An Analysis of Frames on Ethnic Diversity in Relation to Rurality in the Flemish Written Press (Belgium)*0
The Built Environment and Social and Emotional Support among Rural Older Adults: The Case for Social Infrastructure and Attention to Ethnoracial Differences☆0
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How Does Community Leadership Contribute to Rural Environmental Governance? Evidence from Shanghai Villages*0
A Guide to the American Community Survey (ACS) for the Rural Researcher: Unpacking the Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Using Secondary Data for Rural Research☆0
“It Wasn't Like a Big Light Bulb Moment”: Factors that Contribute to Changing Minds on Climate Change0
Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development, by KatePhilip, Woodbridge: James Currey, 2018. xvi+222 pp. 22 figs. 1 tab. £60 (Hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐8470‐1176‐3.0
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Uneven Growth and Unexpected Drivers of Ethnoracial Diversity across Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan America☆0
State Capitalism under Neoliberalism: The Case of Agriculture and Food in Brazil, edited by AlessandroBonanno and Josefa Salete BarbosaCavalcanti, London, UK: Rowman & Littlefield, 2019. 184 pp. $0
Framing Prior Consultation in Brazil: Ethnographic Perspectives on Limits of Participation and Multi‐Cultural Politics, byCharlotteSchumann, Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2018. 333 pp. $45.00 (paper).0
Police Encounters for Behavioral Health‐Related Reasons in Rural and Remote Communities: A Canadian Study☆0
A Sociology of Empathy and Shared Understandings: Contextualizing Beliefs and Attitudes on Why People Use Opioids0
Gleaning Rural Journalism: Rural Journalists' Agricultural and Environmental Reporting Utilizing Community Storytelling Networks☆0
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Organic Resistance: The Struggle over Industrial Farming in Postwar France, by VenusBivar, Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018. xiv + 224 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐4696‐4110
Community‐Based Social Enterprises as Actors for Neo‐Endogenous Rural Development: A Multi‐Stakeholder Approach☆0
Migration Across Metro‐Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages☆0
Wrestling with the Past and Mapping the Future: A Call to the Field0
Recent Transformation of Marginal Rural Areas in the Sudetes Mountains in Poland—Drivers and Effects of Changes in Perception of their Inhabitants☆0
Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability, and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India, by AndrewFlachs, Tucson: The University of Arizona Press, 2019. 225 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 970
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The Rural Primitive in American Popular Culture: All Too Familiar, by Karen E.Hayden, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2021. 123 pp. $90.00 (hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐4985‐4760‐4.0
Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York☆0
“Keeping Things under the Rug”: Racial Dynamics in the Context of Large Immigration Raids in Rural Mississippi☆0
Environmental Policy Preferences and Economic Interests in the Nature/Agriculture and Climate/Energy Dimension in the Netherlands0
Young Farmers in “The New World of Work”: The Contribution of New Media to the Work Engagement and Professional Identities*0
No Perfect Birth: Trauma and Obstetric Care in the Rural United States, by KristinHaltinner, New York: Lexington Books, 2021. 192 pp. $95.00 (Hardback). ISBN: 978‐1‐7936‐4393‐3.0
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Residents' Perceptions of a Future Olympic Bid in Heber, Utah*0
The Cows May Safely Graze: Placing Expert‐Lay Relationships at the Center of Overcoming the Expert‐Lay Knowledge Divide*0
Self‐Employment, the COVID‐19 Pandemic, and the Rural–Urban Divide in the United States☆0
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Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*0
Better Living by Their Own Bootstraps: Black Women's Activism in Rural Arkansas, 1914–1965, by CherisseJones‐Branch, Fayetteville: The University of Arkansas Press, 2021. 227 pp. $29.96 (cloth). ISBN:0
More Snakes Than Ladders: Mass Schooling, Social Closure, and the Pursuit of Taraqqi (Social Mobility) in Rural Pakistan☆0
Agriculture for Economic Development in Africa Evidence from Ethiopia, by Naoto Emelie RohneTill, Springer Nature Switzerland AG, 2022. ISBN: 978‐3‐031‐07900‐9.0
Disrupting Political Polarization: The Role of Politics in Explanations of Farm Loss in Southern Wisconsin☆0
Dualities of Place among Rural and Urban Periphery Homegrown Adults in Israel☆0
Land Tenure and Security: State‐Peasant Relations in the Amhara Highlands, Ethiopia, by SveinEge (ed.), Rochester: James Currey, 2019. 207 pp. $95.00 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1847012241.0
Dividing Paradise: Rural Inequality and the Diminishing American Dream, by JenniferSherman, Oakland: University of California Press, 2021. 288 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐520‐30514‐4.0
Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa, by NaminataDiabate, Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN: 9481478006886.0
A Systematic Analysis of Statewide Reports on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.: What We Know and Where to Go from Here☆0
What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos*0
Rooted Resistance: Agrarian Myth in Modern America, by RossSinger, Stephanie H.Grey, and JeffMotter, Fayetteville: The University of ArkansasPress, 2020. 310 pp. $20.96 (paper). ISBN: 9‐781‐68226143‐90
Rural–Urban/Suburban Differences in the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Delinquency☆0
Does Geography Matter? A Regional Analysis of Early Transfer within Ontario Post‐Secondary Education*0
Migration Behaviors and Educational Attainment of Metro and Non‐Metro Youth☆0
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States*0
Engagement for Life's Sake: Reflections on Partnering and Partnership with Rural Tribal Nations☆0
Living in the Digital Periphery—Old People in Rural Israel Talk About Information Technology0
Family Farmers as Agents in the Struggle for Survival: A Case Study from Turkey☆0
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Digitalization and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: A Case Study from Indonesia*0
Conservation Intentions and Place Attachment among Male and Female Forest Landowners*0
Saviors and Services: The Interface of Neoliberal Deprivation, Hegemonic Christianity, Social Exclusion, and Rural Church Resource Provision☆0
What Women Do, Believe in, and Financially Contribute—What Matters More in Couples' Decision Making? Gender Inequality in Ghana's Small‐Scale Fisheries☆0
Breaking Patriarchal Succession Cycles: How Land Relations Influence Women's Roles in Farming☆0
Shared Ideals, But Persistent Barriers: Improving Tribal‐University Research Engagement to Strengthen Native Nation Building and Rural Development☆0
Nowhere Else to Go: Housing Insecurity in a Hispanic‐Majority Rural County During the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆0
Modern Technology in Rural Policing: Qualitative Analysis of Police Officers in Rural China☆0
Food Expensiveness in Scotland's Remote Areas: An Analysis of Household Food Purchases☆0
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Eviction and the Rental Housing Crisis in Rural America☆0
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