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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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage*	65
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Rural Issues	37
Impacts of Extreme Weather on Farmer Mental Health	22
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Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline^☆	13
The Enduring Price of Place: Revisiting the Rural Cost of Living^☆	12
Perspectives of Agroforestry Practitioners on Agroforestry Adoption: Case Study of Selected SARE Participants^☆	11
Unraveling and Navigating Paradoxical Tensions in Integrating Livestock Health Monitoring Systems: Case Studies From Chinese Farms	10
2024 RSS Presidential Address: Reconceptualizing Rurality and Nurturing Rural Sociological Souls^☆	10
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.	10
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridg	10
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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
Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults' Intentions to Stay for Employment^☆	9
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras^*	9
Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster^*	9
Geographical Tensions Within Municipalities? Evidence from Swedish Local Governments^☆	9
Narratives and Self‐Reflective Process of Lifestyle Migrants: The Quest for the “Good Life”*	8
The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindness, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest^☆	8
Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First, by TerryLeahy, New York: Routledge, 2019. 246 pp. $42.36 (paper). ISBN:9780367665753.	7
Colonizing Canis lupus: Wolf Management as a Settler Colonial Project	7
Differential Access in Mortgage Credit: The Role of Neighborhood Spatial and Racial Stratification	7
The Watersheds Speak: The Voice of Ecosystems in Northern New York's Environmental Movements^☆	7

Reviving Rural America: Toward Policies for Resilience By Ann M.Eisenberg, Cambridge University Press, 2024. 224 pp. $34.99 (paperback). ISBN: 978‐1‐10‐898440‐9	7
Producing but Not Consuming? Food Provisioning in Remote, Rural Areas of the UK^☆	7
Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America☆	7
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The Dignity of Nonworking Men*	6
Influence of Internet Use on Farmers' Low‐Carbon Production Practices: The Mediating Role of Capital Endowment^☆	6
Catching Up Yet Still Falling Behind: Sources, Heterogeneity, and Implications of the Modest Female Educational Disadvantage in Rural China	6
“It's On All the Time in Our House:” Police Scanners and Everyday Rural Life*	6
Saving the Wild or Saving the Cowboy? Cultural Conflict between the Old and Nouveau West*	6
Beyond “Deaths of Despair”: Narratives of Distress and Risk‐Taking Behaviors Among Rural Working‐Class Men	5
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Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi‐Factored Phenomenon^☆	5
Landowner Perspectives on Large‐Scale Solar Leasing: Decision‐Making and Agricultural Implications in Rural New York State	5
Centering Indigenous Brilliance in “The Stories We Tell”^☆	5
Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach^☆	5
The Rural Lawyer: How to Incentivize Rural Law Practice and Help Small Communities ThriveBy HannahHaksgaard, Cambridge, United Kingdom; New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2025. 204 pp. $30.99.	5
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The Role of ICT in Maintaining Social Cohesion: Understanding the Potential of Digital Initiatives for Social Networks in Rural Areas^☆	5
The Urban–Rural Digital Divide in Internet Access and Online Activities During the COVID‐19 Pandemic	4
The Farm Workforce Modernization Act: Finding Common Ground at the Crossroads of Immigration and Labor Policy	4
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge University Press, 2020. 3	4
Rural Versus Urban: The Growing Divide That Threatens Democracy. By SuzanneMettler & Trevor B.Brown. Princeton University Press, 2025. $29.95 (harback). ISBN: 978‐0‐69‐126438‐7	4
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy: Appalachian Medical Student Perceptions of Practice☆	4
The Impact of Rural Development Policy on Social Capital: Measurement, Heterogeneity, and Implications for Collective Action	4
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Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆	4
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:	4
The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile^☆	3
Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan^☆	3
The Expanding Search for Work: The Gender Gap in Livelihood Choices among the Rural Chinese, from 1989 to 2015^☆	3
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.	3
Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations^☆	3
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Eliminating Stereotypes: Villages as Desirable Spaces for Partying among Spanish Youth^☆	3
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 H	3
“People that are Supporting [the] Whole Sector are on their Knees”; Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Change are Occupational Stressors for Irish Farmers ^☆	3
A Fair Comparison: Women's and Men's Farms at Seven Scales in the United States^☆	3
“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^☆	3
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Material Hardship Across Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in the United States : 2013–2021	3
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Farmers' Perspectives on Participatory Breeding of Native Maize in Mexico: A Rural Application to Q‐Methodology	3
Unpacking Gendered Access to Land: Intrahousehold Sharing of Land Rights in Rural Tamil Nadu	3
The Farming Question: Intergenerational Linkages, Gender and Youth Aspirations in Rural Zambia^☆	2
“Can I Speak to the Bossman?” Sources of Stress, Behavioral Adaptations, and Role Incongruency in Female Farmers^☆	2
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Conditions of Possibility for Deep Social Change—Imaginaries Concerning Normality in a Finnish Online Discussion on Self‐Sufficiency	2
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“Good Old Boys From Good Old Families”: Rural Criminal–Legal Involvements and the Reproduction of Social Inequality	2
Advances in Rural Criminology: A Review of Three Recently Published Books	2
Reversing the Gaze: Developing Indigenous and Western Media Frames to Compare Coverage of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the News Media*	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
Rural Development in the Digital Age: Exploring Information and Communication Technology through Social Inclusion^☆	2
Is Rural America Older Than Urban America? The Answer Depends on the Decade	2
Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development, by K.Philip, James Currey, Suffolk: Woodbridge, 2018.	1
Community Landscape Preferences for Reuse of Soviet‐Era Post‐Agricultural Brownfields—What's the Difference?*	1
Governing the Rural Idyll: The Multifaceted Roles of Government in the Politics of Enhanced Commodification	1
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Gene‐Edited Food Adoption Intentions and Institutional Trust in the United States: Benefits, Acceptance, and Labeling^☆	1
Rural Residence, Motorcycle Access, and Contraception Use in South and Southeast Asia ^☆	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
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Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry: A Gender‐Sensitive Comparison of Farmer and Farmworker Perspectives^☆	1
“Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?”: Underground Landscapes & Place‐Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities^☆	1
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Community in Context: The Effect of the Local Community on the Experience of Community	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
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
Community as Story: Identity, Place, and Narrative in San Juan County, Utah, USA	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
Eco‐Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World*	1
Population Redistribution Trends in Nonmetropolitan America, 2010 to 2021^☆	0
On Repeat? The Logic of Agricultural Modernization, the Choices of Tanzanian Small‐Scale Farmers, and Implications for the Second Green Revolution	0
Indigenous Perspectives on Dismantling the Legacies of Settler Colonialism in Rural Sociology^☆	0
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Police Encounters for Behavioral Health‐Related Reasons in Rural and Remote Communities: A Canadian Study^☆	0
Emerging Post‐Carbon Productivism and Rural Transformation—A Case of Aquavoltaic Policy in Taiwan*	0
Informal Modes of Social Support among Residents of the Rural American West during the COVID‐19 Pandemic^☆	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
Will Work for Food: Labor Across the Food Chain, By Laura‐AnneMinkoff‐Zern and Teresa M.Mares, Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2025. 320 pp. $29.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐0‐52‐039161‐	0
“Keeping Things under the Rug”: Racial Dynamics in the Context of Large Immigration Raids in Rural Mississippi^☆	0
“The Volunteering Days is Gone”: All‐Hazard Incarcerated Firefighters and Rural Disinvestment^☆	0
More Snakes Than Ladders: Mass Schooling, Social Closure, and the Pursuit of Taraqqi (Social Mobility) in Rural Pakistan^☆	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
Shared Ideals, But Persistent Barriers: Improving Tribal‐University Research Engagement to Strengthen Native Nation Building and Rural Development^☆	0
Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post‐COVID‐19 Pandemic^☆	0
Migration Across Metro‐Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages^☆	0
Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York^☆	0
What's Good for the Land is Good for the Farmer: Investigating Conservation‐Related Variables as Predictors of Farmers' Job Satisfaction^☆	0
The Link between Internet Activity and Community Experience in Rural Utah^☆	0
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Family Farmers as Agents in the Struggle for Survival: A Case Study from Turkey^☆	0
Young Farmers in “The New World of Work”: The Contribution of New Media to the Work Engagement and Professional Identities*	0
Labor and Sustainability: The Role of Farm Labor Practices in Shaping Antibiotic Use^☆	0
Self‐Employment, the COVID‐19 Pandemic, and the Rural–Urban Divide in the United States^☆	0
Bank on it: Do Local Banks Contribute to Rural Community Prosperity?^*	0
Residents' Perceptions of a Future Olympic Bid in Heber, Utah*	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
Growing Food, Feeding Disease: Primary Sector Specialization and Malaria Incidence in Less‐Developed Countries	0
Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference^☆	0
What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos*	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
Critical Rural Theory: A Decade of Influence on Rural Education Research^☆	0
America's Empty Homes: The Overlooked Rural and Nonmetropolitan Housing Vacancy Problem	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
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
“It Wasn't Like a Big Light Bulb Moment”: Factors that Contribute to Changing Minds on Climate Change	0
Neo‐Rurals and Tourism in the Context of Rural Crisis in Southern Europe. Case Study in the Sierra de Aracena (Andalusia, Spain)	0
Rural–Urban/Suburban Differences in the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Delinquency^☆	0
Measuring Perceptions of Rural America: An Integration of Exploratory and Confirmatory Factor Analysis	0
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Barriers of Women in Acquiring Leadership Positions in Agricultural Cooperatives: The Case of Cambodia^☆	0
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Engagement With Biodiversity: Are Farmers Different From the Wider Community?	0
Countryside, Borderlands, Nature—Public Art beyond the City^☆	0
Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance^☆	0
“Go Back To Where You Came From!”: Moral Economy of Land and the Politics of Belonging in Coastal Tanzania^☆	0
A Growing Willow: The Six Rs Indigenous Research Framework—Stories of the Native American Faculty Journey in STEM*	0
Community‐Based Social Enterprises as Actors for Neo‐Endogenous Rural Development: A Multi‐Stakeholder Approach^☆	0
Food Expensiveness in Scotland's Remote Areas: An Analysis of Household Food Purchases^☆	0
Migration Behaviors and Educational Attainment of Metro and Non‐Metro Youth^☆	0
Modern Technology in Rural Policing: Qualitative Analysis of Police Officers in Rural China^☆	0

Saviors and Services: The Interface of Neoliberal Deprivation, Hegemonic Christianity, Social Exclusion, and Rural Church Resource Provision^☆	0
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Rural Life, Rural Healthcare, and Telehealth: An Interpretive Phenomenology Study	0
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Recent Transformation of Marginal Rural Areas in the Sudetes Mountains in Poland—Drivers and Effects of Changes in Perception of their Inhabitants^☆	0
Nowhere Else to Go: Housing Insecurity in a Hispanic‐Majority Rural County During the COVID‐19 Pandemic^☆	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
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
Does Caregiver Well‐Being Differ by Rurality and State Policy Environment? Identifying a Well‐Being Typology for Rural, Suburban, and Urban Caregivers	0
A Not‐So‐Just Transition? Examining the Effects of Coal Sector Decline on Life Expectancy in U.S. Counties	0
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
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
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Disrupting Political Polarization: The Role of Politics in Explanations of Farm Loss in Southern Wisconsin^☆	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
Dualities of Place among Rural and Urban Periphery Homegrown Adults in Israel^☆	0
Misrecognition and Well‐being in Culturally White Northern New England^☆	0
Trailer Park America: Reimagining Working‐Class Communities. By LeontinaHormel, New Brunswick, Camden, and Newark, New Jersey; London: Rutgers University Press, 2023. 284 pp. $37.95 (hardback). ISBN:	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. $36.95	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). ISB	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
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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Agrarian Frames, Farm Financial Crisis, and Farmer Stress: A Qualitative Comparison of Small‐Scale Farmers	0
“Homophobia” in the Country? Rural America and the Stigmatization ofLGBTQPeople: An Empirical Test of Norm‐Centered Stigma Theory	0
The Chain of Equivalent Demands in the Rise of Rural Neo‐populism. Introduction to Special Issue	0
Political Minority Identity Maintenance and Parenting in a Rural Small Town^☆	0
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Farmers' Social Capital in Agricultural Decision‐Making^☆	0
Accounting for Culture in Evaluations of Climate‐Induced Noneconomic Losses and Damages: Case Studies With Three Indigenous Communities From Rural Fiji	0
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“Long‐Term Temporary” Disaster Recovery Housing: Living in RVs Post‐Wildfire	0
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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 Community^☆	0
Engagement for Life's Sake: Reflections on Partnering and Partnership with Rural Tribal Nations^☆	0
Breaking Patriarchal Succession Cycles: How Land Relations Influence Women's Roles in Farming^☆	0
Uneven Growth and Unexpected Drivers of Ethnoracial Diversity across Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan America^☆	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
Women's Vulnerabilities to Climate Insecurity and Violence: Household‐Level Evidence From Bangladesh	0
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Remittances and Livestock Management in Agropastoral Households in Rural Kyrgyzstan: Telecoupled Impacts of Globalization^☆	0
When Vulnerability Is Mistaken for Justice: Just Readiness and the Political Grammars of Colorado's Coal Transition	0
Testing and Expanding the Concept of Traditional and Contemporary Localism in Rural Local Food Systems with Ozark Wild Harvesters^☆	0
Gleaning Rural Journalism: Rural Journalists' Agricultural and Environmental Reporting Utilizing Community Storytelling Networks ^☆	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 (Hard	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
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The Financialization of Agriculture in Brazil: Land Concentration and Foreignization	0
How Gender Dynamics Shape Off‐farm Work in Upland Southwest China^☆	0
The Built Environment and Social and Emotional Support among Rural Older Adults: The Case for Social Infrastructure and Attention to Ethnoracial Differences^☆	0
Rural Lifestyles and Life Politics: Reimagining Modernity in the Development of a Future Village in China	0
Towards an Emplaced Vocabulary of Motive: Senses of Place and Land Sale Decision‐Making in the Northern Great Plains^*	0
How Does Community Leadership Contribute to Rural Environmental Governance? Evidence from Shanghai Villages*	0
Eviction and the Rental Housing Crisis in Rural America^☆	0
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Does Geography Matter? A Regional Analysis of Early Transfer within Ontario Post‐Secondary Education*	0
Environmental Policy Preferences and Economic Interests in the Nature/Agriculture and Climate/Energy Dimension in the Netherlands	0