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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
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The Gendered Spaces and Experiences of Female Faculty in Colleges of Agriculture*25
How Do Single Mothers Evaluate and Cope with Living in Rural Peripheries? Insights into the Interplay of Social and Spatial Disadvantage*25
Introduction: Indigenous Peoples and Rural Issues22
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Liminal Belonging in El Nuevo South: The Geographies of Inclusion and Exclusion for Hispanic Young Adults within Northwest Arkansas*19
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The Enduring Price of Place: Revisiting the Rural Cost of Living18
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Rural/Urban Differences: Persistence or Decline16
2024 RSS Presidential Address: Reconceptualizing Rurality and Nurturing Rural Sociological Souls14
Perspectives of Agroforestry Practitioners on Agroforestry Adoption: Case Study of Selected SARE Participants14
Geographical Tensions Within Municipalities? Evidence from Swedish Local Governments13
Rural College Graduates: Who Comes Home?*13
Farming Inside Invisible Worlds: Modernist Agriculture and its Consequences, by HughCampbell, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. 216 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐3501‐2054‐9.13
Perceptions and Experiences of Gender Transformative Approaches in Rural Honduras*13
Contention in Times of Crisis: Recession and Political Protest in Thirty European Countries, by HanspeterKriesi, JasmineLorenzini, BrunoWüest, and SiljaHäsumermann, Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridg13
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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: 978‐1‐5179‐1092‐1.11
Searching for Higher Ground: Watershed Migration and Cultural Curation in the Fallout of Disaster*11
Securing a Future in Nonmetropolitan Areas: Community and Family Influences on Young Adults' Intentions to Stay for Employment11
Narratives and Self‐Reflective Process of Lifestyle Migrants: The Quest for the “Good Life”*9
The Stories We Tell: Colorblind Racism, Classblindness, and Narrative Framing in the Rural Midwest8
Mind the Gaps: Examining Youth's Reading, Math and Science Skills Across Northern and Rural Canada*8
Differential Access in Mortgage Credit: The Role of Neighborhood Spatial and Racial Stratification8
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Wild Wind, Social Storm: “Energy Populism” in Rural Areas? An Exploratory Analysis of France and Italy*7
Food Security for Rural Africa: Feeding the Farmers First, by TerryLeahy, New York: Routledge, 2019. 246 pp. $42.36 (paper). ISBN:9780367665753.7
Early Family Formation, Selective Migration, and Childhood Conditions in Rural America☆7
The Watersheds Speak: The Voice of Ecosystems in Northern New York's Environmental Movements7
“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
Influence of Internet Use on Farmers' Low‐Carbon Production Practices: The Mediating Role of Capital Endowment6
No One Size Fits All. Women Commercial Farm Employment and Fertility in Ethiopia: A Study of Saudi Star and MERTI Agricultural Development Farms6
School Closures and Rural Population Decline*6
The Dignity of Nonworking Men*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
Multiple Paths of Influencing Factors of College Students' Intention of Returning Home for Employment from the Perspective of Configuration: A fsQCA Approach5
Inter‐County Migration and the Spatial Concentration of Poverty: Comparing Metro and Nonmetro Patterns*5
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The Role of ICT in Maintaining Social Cohesion: Understanding the Potential of Digital Initiatives for Social Networks in Rural Areas5
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
State Populism in Rural Hungary*5
Changes to Rural Migration in the COVID‐19 Pandemic☆4
Ethnoracial Diversity and Segregation in U.S. Rural School Districts*4
Centering Indigenous Brilliance in “The Stories We Tell”4
Negotiating the Gemeinschaft/Gesellschaft Dichotomy: Appalachian Medical Student Perceptions of Practice☆4
Motivations of Subsistence Farming in Hungary: Analysis of a Multi‐Factored Phenomenon4
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Global Markets, Risk, and Organized Irresponsibility in Regional Australia: Emergent Cosmopolitan Identities Among Local Food Producers in the Liverpool Plains4
Becoming a Young Farmer in the Digital Age—An Island Perspective*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:3
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The Expanding Search for Work: The Gender Gap in Livelihood Choices among the Rural Chinese, from 1989 to 20153
COVID‐19 in Rural America: Impacts of Politics and Disadvantage*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
Modernization, Political Economy, and Limits to Blue Growth: A Cross‐National, Panel Regression Study (1975–2016)*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 Youth3
The Making of an Indigenous Community and the Limits of Community: Class Differentiation and Social Ties in Southern Chile3
Energy Service Security for Public Health Resilience: Perception and Concerns in Western Upper Peninsula of Michigan3
Eliminating Stereotypes: Villages as Desirable Spaces for Partying among Spanish Youth3
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
Reversing the Gaze: Developing Indigenous and Western Media Frames to Compare Coverage of Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples in the News Media*2
Community Landscape Preferences for Reuse of Soviet‐Era Post‐Agricultural Brownfields—What's the Difference?*2
The Changing Landscape of Affordable Housing in the Rural and Urban United States, 1990–2016*2
Rural Development in the Digital Age: Exploring Information and Communication Technology through Social Inclusion2
From Brexit to VOX: Populist Policy Narratives about Rurality in Europe and the Populist Challenges for the Rural‐Urban Divide*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
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
“People that are Supporting [the] Whole Sector are on their Knees”; Uncertainty and Socioeconomic Change are Occupational Stressors for Irish Farmers2
“Can I Speak to the Bossman?” Sources of Stress, Behavioral Adaptations, and Role Incongruency in Female Farmers2
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Hydropower, Social Capital, Community Impacts, and Self‐Rated Health in the Amazon*2
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Seeing Green: Lifecycles of an Arctic Agricultural Frontier2
Market Concentration and Natural Resource Development in Rural America2
Advances in Rural Criminology: A Review of Three Recently Published Books2
Village England: A Social History of the Countryside, by TrevorWild, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2004. xix + 204 pp. $39.95 (paper). ISBN: 978‐1‐350‐17726‐0.2
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The Farming Question: Intergenerational Linkages, Gender and Youth Aspirations in Rural Zambia2
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How Rural is Rural Populism? On the Spatial Understanding of Rurality for Analyses of Right‐wing Populist Election Success in Germany*2
Heirs Property, Critical Race Theory, and Reparations2
A Fair Comparison: Women's and Men's Farms at Seven Scales in the United States2
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Farm Labor Shortage in the Pennsylvania Mushroom Industry: A Gender‐Sensitive Comparison of Farmer and Farmworker Perspectives1
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
Performing Rurality in Online Community Groups*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
Student Debt and Geographic Disadvantage: Disparities by Rural, Suburban, and Urban Background*1
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“Driving Down a Road and Not Knowing Where You're At”: Navigating the Loss of Physical and Social Infrastructure After the Camp Fire*1
Markets on the Margins: Mineworkers, Job Creation and Enterprise Development, by K.Philip, James Currey, Suffolk: Woodbridge, 2018.1
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
“Do you Know What's Underneath your Feet?”: Underground Landscapes & Place‐Based Risk Perceptions of Proposed Shale Gas Sites in Rural British Communities1
Rural Residence, Motorcycle Access, and Contraception Use in South and Southeast Asia1
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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: 978‐1‐4696‐4111
Eco‐Esteem and Depopulation: Broadening the Perspective on the Demographic Challenge in the Rural World*1
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Bridging Agrarianism: The Potential of Value‐Added Craft Cider Production to Support Rural Livelihoods in the Pacific Northwest*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
Young Farmers in “The New World of Work”: The Contribution of New Media to the Work Engagement and Professional Identities*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
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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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
How Gender Dynamics Shape Off‐farm Work in Upland Southwest China0
Physical Separation, Social Distance, and Kinship Sentiments: An Exploration of Rural Parent–Teacher Relations in China0
What Women Do, Believe in, and Financially Contribute—What Matters More in Couples' Decision Making? Gender Inequality in Ghana's Small‐Scale Fisheries0
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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
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
The Cows May Safely Graze: Placing Expert‐Lay Relationships at the Center of Overcoming the Expert‐Lay Knowledge Divide*0
What Is Rural Well‐Being and How Is It Measured? An Attempt to Order Chaos*0
Community‐Based Social Enterprises as Actors for Neo‐Endogenous Rural Development: A Multi‐Stakeholder Approach0
Living in the Digital Periphery—Old People in Rural Israel Talk About Information Technology0
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
Digitalization and Social Innovation in Rural Areas: A Case Study from Indonesia*0
A Sociology of Empathy and Shared Understandings: Contextualizing Beliefs and Attitudes on Why People Use Opioids0
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Barriers of Women in Acquiring Leadership Positions in Agricultural Cooperatives: The Case of Cambodia0
Data‐Driven Sustainability: Metrics, Digital Technologies, and Governance in Food and Agriculture*0
“Homophobia” in the Country? Rural America and the Stigmatization ofLGBTQPeople: An Empirical Test of Norm‐Centered Stigma Theory0
The Link between Internet Activity and Community Experience in Rural Utah0
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Family Farmers as Agents in the Struggle for Survival: A Case Study from Turkey0
For the Children: Notions of Childhood in Women's Narratives of Home in Rural Newfoundland*0
Nowhere Else to Go: Housing Insecurity in a Hispanic‐Majority Rural County During the COVID‐19 Pandemic0
Countryside, Borderlands, Nature—Public Art beyond the City0
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
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
“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
Climate Change, Agrarian Distress, and the Feminization of Agriculture in South Asia*0
“The Volunteering Days is Gone”: All‐Hazard Incarcerated Firefighters and Rural Disinvestment0
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They Will Be Like a Swarm of Locusts”: Race, Rurality, and Settler Colonialism in American Prepping Culture*0
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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: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
Preferences for Economic and Environmental Goals in Rural Community Development in the Western United States*0
Dualities of Place among Rural and Urban Periphery Homegrown Adults in Israel0
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
Brokering Rural Community Food Security: An Organizational Network Case Study in Central Appalachia*0
Spatializing Solidarity: Agricultural Cooperatives as Solidarity Transformers in Cuba*0
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Bonding Social Capital of Rural Women in Southwest Iran: Application of Social Network Analysis*0
Bank on it: Do Local Banks Contribute to Rural Community Prosperity?*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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Taking Communities into the Groan Zone: Subjective Wellbeing in the Face of Demographic Change, Racial Diversity, and Political Difference0
Exploring Distressed Cashew‐Nut Farmland Rentals Among Ethnic Groups in Binh Phuoc Province, Vietnam0
Engagement for Life's Sake: Reflections on Partnering and Partnership with Rural Tribal Nations0
Conservation Intentions and Place Attachment among Male and Female Forest Landowners*0
Misrecognition and Well‐being in Culturally White Northern New England0
Testing and Expanding the Concept of Traditional and Contemporary Localism in Rural Local Food Systems with Ozark Wild Harvesters0
Uneven Growth and Unexpected Drivers of Ethnoracial Diversity across Nonmetropolitan and Metropolitan America0
Environmental Policy Preferences and Economic Interests in the Nature/Agriculture and Climate/Energy Dimension in the Netherlands0
Shared Ideals, But Persistent Barriers: Improving Tribal‐University Research Engagement to Strengthen Native Nation Building and Rural Development0
Migration Across Metro‐Nonmetro Boundaries and Hourly Wages0
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“It Wasn't Like a Big Light Bulb Moment”: Factors that Contribute to Changing Minds on Climate Change0
Right‐Wing Rural Populisms: Comparative Analysis of Two European Regions*0
Emerging Post‐Carbon Productivism and Rural Transformation—A Case of Aquavoltaic Policy in Taiwan*0
Does Geography Matter? A Regional Analysis of Early Transfer within Ontario Post‐Secondary Education*0
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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
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
Farm to Food Bank: Exploring the Ties between Local Food Producers and Charitable Food Assistance0
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
Food Expensiveness in Scotland's Remote Areas: An Analysis of Household Food Purchases0
Breaking Patriarchal Succession Cycles: How Land Relations Influence Women's Roles in Farming0
The Chain of Equivalent Demands in the Rise of Rural Neo‐populism. Introduction to Special Issue0
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
Gene‐Edited Food Adoption Intentions and Institutional Trust in the United States: Benefits, Acceptance, and Labeling0
Migration Behaviors and Educational Attainment of Metro and Non‐Metro Youth0
Saviors and Services: The Interface of Neoliberal Deprivation, Hegemonic Christianity, Social Exclusion, and Rural Church Resource Provision0
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Residents' Perceptions of a Future Olympic Bid in Heber, Utah*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
Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction*0
“Go Back To Where You Came From!”: Moral Economy of Land and the Politics of Belonging in Coastal Tanzania0
Critical Rural Theory: A Decade of Influence on Rural Education Research0
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 Sociology0
Reacting to the Rural Burden: Understanding Opposition to Utility‐Scale Solar Development in Upstate New York0
Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa, by NaminataDiabate, Durham, London: Duke University Press, 2020. 272 pp. $26.95 (paper). ISBN: 9481478006886.0
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Growing Food, Feeding Disease: Primary Sector Specialization and Malaria Incidence in Less‐Developed Countries0
Modern Technology in Rural Policing: Qualitative Analysis of Police Officers in Rural China0
Informal Modes of Social Support among Residents of the Rural American West during the COVID‐19 Pandemic0
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The Built Environment and Social and Emotional Support among Rural Older Adults: The Case for Social Infrastructure and Attention to Ethnoracial Differences0
Political Minority Identity Maintenance and Parenting in a Rural Small Town0
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
How Does Community Leadership Contribute to Rural Environmental Governance? Evidence from Shanghai Villages*0
Police Encounters for Behavioral Health‐Related Reasons in Rural and Remote Communities: A Canadian Study0
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
More Snakes Than Ladders: Mass Schooling, Social Closure, and the Pursuit of Taraqqi (Social Mobility) in Rural Pakistan0
A Growing Willow: The Six Rs Indigenous Research Framework—Stories of the Native American Faculty Journey in STEM*0
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Disrupting Political Polarization: The Role of Politics in Explanations of Farm Loss in Southern Wisconsin0
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
Eviction and the Rental Housing Crisis in Rural America0
Gleaning Rural Journalism: Rural Journalists' Agricultural and Environmental Reporting Utilizing Community Storytelling Networks0
Farmers' Social Capital in Agricultural Decision‐Making0
Hardship in the Heartland: Associations Between Rurality, Income, and Material Hardship*0
Wrestling with the Past and Mapping the Future: A Call to the Field0
Amenity Migration and Community Wellbeing in Washington's Kittitas County Post‐COVID‐19 Pandemic0
Self‐Employment, the COVID‐19 Pandemic, and the Rural–Urban Divide in the United States0
Population Redistribution Trends in Nonmetropolitan America, 2010 to 20210
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
“Keeping Things under the Rug”: Racial Dynamics in the Context of Large Immigration Raids in Rural Mississippi0
Rural–Urban/Suburban Differences in the Effects of Adverse Childhood Experiences on Delinquency0
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
What's Good for the Land is Good for the Farmer: Investigating Conservation‐Related Variables as Predictors of Farmers' Job Satisfaction0
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Towards an Emplaced Vocabulary of Motive: Senses of Place and Land Sale Decision‐Making in the Northern Great Plains*0
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