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 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
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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*36
The Gendered Spaces and Experiences of Female Faculty in Colleges of Agriculture*29
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Rural Issues21
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Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline18
Perspectives of Agroforestry Practitioners on Agroforestry Adoption: Case Study of Selected SARE Participants18
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2024 RSS Presidential Address: Reconceptualizing Rurality and Nurturing Rural Sociological Souls15
The Enduring Price of Place: Revisiting the Rural Cost of Living15
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridg14
Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences, by HughCampbell, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 216 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐3501‐2054‐9.14
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras*13
Geographical Tensions Within Municipalities? Evidence from Swedish Local Governments12
Unraveling and Navigating Paradoxical Tensions in Integrating Livestock Health Monitoring Systems: Case Studies From Chinese Farms10
Rural College Graduates: Who Comes Home?*10
The End of the Village, by Nick R.Smith, Barnard College: University of Minnesota Press, 2021. 324 pp. $27.00 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐5179‐1092‐1.9
Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster*9
Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults' Intentions to Stay for Employment8
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Colonizing Canis lupus: Wolf Management as a Settler Colonial Project7
Narratives and Self‐Reflective Process of Lifestyle Migrants: The Quest for the “Good Life”*7
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Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK7
Differential Access in Mortgage Credit: The Role of Neighborhood Spatial and Racial Stratification7
The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindness, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest7
Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First, by TerryLeahy, New York: Routledge, 2019. 246 pp. $42.36 (paper). ISBN:9780367665753.6
Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience By AnnM. Eisenberg, Cambridge University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $34.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐10‐898440‐96
The Watersheds Speak: The Voice of Ecosystems in Northern New York's Environmental Movements6
Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America☆6
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
“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life*5
No One Size Fits All. Women Commercial Farm Employment and Fertility in Ethiopia: A Study of Saudi Star and MERTI Agricultural Development Farms5
The Dignity of Nonworking Men*5
Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West*5
Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi‐Factored Phenomenon4
The Role of ICT in Maintaining Social Cohesion: Understanding the Potential of Digital Initiatives for Social Networks in Rural Areas4
Influence of Internet Use on Farmers' Low‐Carbon Production Practices: The Mediating Role of Capital Endowment4
Catching Up Yet Still Falling Behind: Sources, Heterogeneity, and Implications of the Modest Female Educational Disadvantage in Rural China4
Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach4
Centering Indigenous Brilliance in “The Stories We Tell”4
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The Urban–Rural Digital Divide in Internet Access and Online Activities During the COVID‐19 Pandemic4
School Closures and Rural Population Decline*4
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge University Press, 2020. 33
The Impact of Rural Development Policy on Social Capital: Measurement, Heterogeneity, and Implications for Collective Action3
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 20153
Modernization, Political Economy, and Limits to Blue Growth: A Cross‐National, Panel Regression Study (1975–2016)*3
The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile3
Global Markets, Risk, and Organized Irresponsibility in Regional Australia: Emergent Cosmopolitan Identities Among Local Food Producers in the Liverpool Plains3
Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆3
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Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan3
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 H3
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy: Appalachian Medical Student Perceptions of Practice☆3
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Class and Vulnerability to Debt in Rural India: A Statistical Overview*3
Eliminating Stereotypes: Villages as Desirable Spaces for Partying among Spanish Youth3
Market Concentration and Natural Resource Development in Rural America3
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The Changing Landscape of Affordable Housing in the Rural and Urban United States, 1990–2016*2
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The Farming Question: Intergenerational Linkages, Gender and Youth Aspirations in Rural Zambia2
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A Fair Comparison: Women's and Men's Farms at Seven Scales in the United States2
“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 Youth2
From Brexit to VOX: Populist Policy Narratives about Rurality in Europe and the Populist Challenges for the Rural‐Urban Divide*2
“Can I Speak to the Bossman?” Sources of Stress, Behavioral Adaptations, and Role Incongruency in Female Farmers2
Advances in Rural Criminology: A Review of Three Recently Published Books2
Community Landscape Preferences for Reuse of Soviet‐Era Post‐Agricultural Brownfields—What's the Difference?*2
Rural Development in the Digital Age: Exploring Information and Communication Technology through Social Inclusion2
Seeing Green: Lifecycles of an Arctic Agricultural Frontier2
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
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
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Reversing the Gaze: Developing Indigenous and Western Media Frames to Compare Coverage of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the News Media*2
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Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self‐Rated Health in the Amazon*2
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Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations2
“People that are Supporting [the] Whole Sector are on their Knees”; Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Change are Occupational Stressors for Irish Farmers2
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
Bridging Agrarianism: The Potential of Value‐Added Craft Cider Production to Support Rural Livelihoods in the Pacific Northwest*1
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).1
Exploring Climate Change Perspectives. An Analysis of Undergraduate Students' Place‐Based Attachment in Appalachia, USA1
Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry: A Gender‐Sensitive Comparison of Farmer and Farmworker Perspectives1
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Performing Rurality in Online Community Groups*1
Rural Residence, Motorcycle Access, and Contraception Use in South and Southeast Asia1
“Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?”: Underground Landscapes & Place‐Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities1
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
Rurality and Crises of Democracy: What Can Rural Sociology Offer the Present Moment?*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
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Eco‐Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World*1
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“They Don't Want to Know; They Don't Want to Hear”: Social Distance Between Leaders and Low‐Income Community Members in a Rural Indiana Community0
Data‐Driven Sustainability: Metrics, Digital Technologies, and Governance in Food and Agriculture*0
Climate Change, Agrarian Distress, and the Feminization of Agriculture in South Asia*0
Shared Ideals, But Persistent Barriers: Improving Tribal‐University Research Engagement to Strengthen Native Nation Building and Rural Development0
A Sociology of Empathy and Shared Understandings: Contextualizing Beliefs and Attitudes on Why People Use Opioids0
More Snakes Than Ladders: Mass Schooling, Social Closure, and the Pursuit of Taraqqi (Social Mobility) in Rural Pakistan0
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States*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
“It Wasn't Like a Big Light Bulb Moment”: Factors that Contribute to Changing Minds on Climate Change0
Does Caregiver Well‐Being Differ by Rurality and State Policy Environment? Identifying a Well‐Being Typology for Rural, Suburban, and Urban Caregivers0
Family Farmers as Agents in the Struggle for Survival: A Case Study from Turkey0
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
For the Children: Notions of Childhood in Women's Narratives of Home in Rural Newfoundland*0
Disrupting Political Polarization: The Role of Politics in Explanations of Farm Loss in Southern Wisconsin0
Population Redistribution Trends in Nonmetropolitan America, 2010 to 20210
Growing Food, Feeding Disease: Primary Sector Specialization and Malaria Incidence in Less‐Developed Countries0
“Keeping Things under the Rug”: Racial Dynamics in the Context of Large Immigration Raids in Rural Mississippi0
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
Exploring Distressed Cashew‐Nut Farmland Rentals Among Ethnic Groups in Binh Phuoc Province, Vietnam0
“The Volunteering Days is Gone”: All‐Hazard Incarcerated Firefighters and Rural Disinvestment0
Who We Are Is Where We Are: Making Home in the American Rust Belt, by Amanda McMillanLequieu, New York: Columbia University Press, 2024. 384 pp. $32.00 (paper). ISBN: 9780231198752.0
Misrecognition and Well‐being in Culturally White Northern New England0
Residents' Perceptions of a Future Olympic Bid in Heber, Utah*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
Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*0
Dualities of Place among Rural and Urban Periphery Homegrown Adults in Israel0
Rural Lifestyles and Life Politics: Reimagining Modernity in the Development of a Future Village in China0
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
Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa, by NaminataDiabate, Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN: 9481478006886.0
Gleaning Rural Journalism: Rural Journalists' Agricultural and Environmental Reporting Utilizing Community Storytelling Networks0
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
The Cows May Safely Graze: Placing Expert‐Lay Relationships at the Center of Overcoming the Expert‐Lay Knowledge Divide*0
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
Nowhere Else to Go: Housing Insecurity in a Hispanic‐Majority Rural County During the COVID‐19 Pandemic0
Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post‐COVID‐19 Pandemic0
Digitalization and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: A Case Study from Indonesia*0
Living in the Digital Periphery—Old People in Rural Israel Talk About Information Technology0
What's Good for the Land is Good for the Farmer: Investigating Conservation‐Related Variables as Predictors of Farmers' Job Satisfaction0
“Go Back To Where You Came From!”: Moral Economy of Land and the Politics of Belonging in Coastal Tanzania0
Food Expensiveness in Scotland's Remote Areas: An Analysis of Household Food Purchases0
Political Minority Identity Maintenance and Parenting in a Rural Small Town0
Migration Across Metro‐Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages0
What Women Do, Believe in, and Financially Contribute—What Matters More in Couples' Decision Making? Gender Inequality in Ghana's Small‐Scale Fisheries0
Rural Life, Rural Healthcare, and Telehealth: An Interpretive Phenomenology Study0
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Conservation Intentions and Place Attachment among Male and Female Forest Landowners*0
Stolen Pride: Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right, by ArlieHochschild, New York: The New Press, 2024. 383 pp. $30.99 (hardcover). ISBN: 978‐1‐62097‐643‐3.0
Recent Transformation of Marginal Rural Areas in the Sudetes Mountains in Poland—Drivers and Effects of Changes in Perception of their Inhabitants0
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A Growing Willow: The Six Rs Indigenous Research Framework—Stories of the Native American Faculty Journey in STEM*0
Eviction and the Rental Housing Crisis in Rural America0
Farmers' Social Capital in Agricultural Decision‐Making0
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Migration Behaviors and Educational Attainment of Metro and Non‐Metro Youth0
Physical Separation, Social Distance, and Kinship Sentiments: An Exploration of Rural Parent–Teacher Relations in China0
Informal Modes of Social Support among Residents of the Rural American West during the COVID‐19 Pandemic0
Indigenous Perspectives on Dismantling the Legacies of Settler Colonialism in Rural Sociology0
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
Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference0
What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos*0
Towards an Emplaced Vocabulary of Motive: Senses of Place and Land Sale Decision‐Making in the Northern Great Plains*0
Bonding Social Capital of Rural Women in Southwest Iran: Application of Social Network Analysis*0
How Does Community Leadership Contribute to Rural Environmental Governance? Evidence from Shanghai Villages*0
Critical Rural Theory: A Decade of Influence on Rural Education Research0
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Environmental Policy Preferences and Economic Interests in the Nature/Agriculture and Climate/Energy Dimension in the Netherlands0
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
The Link between Internet Activity and Community Experience in Rural Utah0
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Neo‐Rurals and Tourism in the Context of Rural Crisis in Southern Europe. Case Study in the Sierra de Aracena (Andalusia, Spain)0
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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
Breaking Patriarchal Succession Cycles: How Land Relations Influence Women's Roles in Farming0
Police Encounters for Behavioral Health‐Related Reasons in Rural and Remote Communities: A Canadian Study0
Uneven Growth and Unexpected Drivers of Ethnoracial Diversity across Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan America0
Saviors and Services: The Interface of Neoliberal Deprivation, Hegemonic Christianity, Social Exclusion, and Rural Church Resource Provision0
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Community‐Based Social Enterprises as Actors for Neo‐Endogenous Rural Development: A Multi‐Stakeholder Approach0
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
Modern Technology in Rural Policing: Qualitative Analysis of Police Officers in Rural China0
Gene‐Edited Food Adoption Intentions and Institutional Trust in the United States: Benefits, Acceptance, and Labeling0
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Young Farmers in “The New World of Work”: The Contribution of New Media to the Work Engagement and Professional Identities*0
Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York0
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Barriers of Women in Acquiring Leadership Positions in Agricultural Cooperatives: The Case of Cambodia0
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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
“Homophobia” in the Country? Rural America and the Stigmatization ofLGBTQPeople: An Empirical Test of Norm‐Centered Stigma Theory0
A Guide to the American Community Survey (ACS) for the Rural Researcher: Unpacking the Conceptual and Technical Aspects of Using Secondary Data for Rural Research0
Bank on it: Do Local Banks Contribute to Rural Community Prosperity?*0
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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
Hardship in the Heartland: Associations Between Rurality, Income, and Material Hardship*0
How Gender Dynamics Shape Off‐farm Work in Upland Southwest China0
The Built Environment and Social and Emotional Support among Rural Older Adults: The Case for Social Infrastructure and Attention to Ethnoracial Differences0
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
The Chain of Equivalent Demands in the Rise of Rural Neo‐populism. Introduction to Special Issue0
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
Labor and Sustainability: The Role of Farm Labor Practices in Shaping Antibiotic Use0
A Systematic Analysis of Statewide Reports on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples in the U.S.: What We Know and Where to Go from Here0
Remittances and Livestock Management in Agropastoral Households in Rural Kyrgyzstan: Telecoupled Impacts of Globalization0
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Emerging Post‐Carbon Productivism and Rural Transformation—A Case of Aquavoltaic Policy in Taiwan*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
Does Geography Matter? A Regional Analysis of Early Transfer within Ontario Post‐Secondary Education*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
Wrestling with the Past and Mapping the Future: A Call to the Field0
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
Engagement for Life's Sake: Reflections on Partnering and Partnership with Rural Tribal Nations0
Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance0
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
Self‐Employment, the COVID‐19 Pandemic, and the Rural–Urban Divide in the United States0
Countryside, Borderlands, Nature—Public Art beyond the City0
Testing and Expanding the Concept of Traditional and Contemporary Localism in Rural Local Food Systems with Ozark Wild Harvesters0
Rural–Urban/Suburban Differences in the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Delinquency0
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