This week’s digest summarizes Levi Van Sant and @landstuff.bsky.social's work on “a right to the rural,” inspired by the well-known “right to the city” framework: www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

Our latest digest shares @haksgaard.bsky.social & Bryce Drapeaux’s work identifying alarmingly few licensed attorneys who serve Native American communities in South Dakota. Read more on their findings and potential solutions to the access to justice crisis here:

📢 New Book Review! We’re pleased to feature a guest book review by Ann M. Eisenberg of @amleq.bsky.social’s Who We Are is Where We Are — a powerful exploration of place and identity, homemaking and survival in the Rust Belt.

Our August roundup highlights new research on how rurality and race shape college experiences, a case study on the impact of “neo-rurals” in small communities, insights on rural broadband adoption challenges, an upcoming webinar on rural health strategies, and more!

Our newest digest summarizes research on rural environmental sustainability efforts across Cascadia. Erika Allen Wolters, Brent S. Steel, Tamara Krawchenko, and Sadaf Farooq explore local approaches to balancing economic needs with ecological responsibility. www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

📢 We're excited to share a new commentary by @cassieforky.bsky.social on how rurality affects eviction and how policymakers, often focused on urban areas, might begin to address the unique challenges of the rural eviction crisis:

To understand rural criminal justice, researchers need more than stats—they need a way to grasp the social fabric of rural communities. Our latest digest highlights Michele Statz & @profwillgarriott.bsky.social‬’s case for ethnography as one such tool.

Our recent digest features Eduardo Villavicencio-Pinto's work exploring how Chile’s rural land regime—shaped by both concentration and fragmentation—threatens sustainability amid climate change.

How can law schools better prepare students for rural legal practice? Our latest digest looks at Ashli Tomisich’s critique of traditional legal education and how experiential learning could benefit future rural lawyers and communities.

📢 New commentary! We're thrilled to feature a guest piece by Ann M. Eisenberg on how long-ignored economic and policy shifts shaped political realignment and why rural discontent matters. Check it out here: www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

New Roundup! We're back, highlighting recent rural-focused scholarship and reporting—including pieces on the intersection of race and rurality in health outcomes, black lung disease in Appalachia, an upcoming virtual roundtable on rural voting information deserts, and more:

One last digest before we take a short summer publishing break! Our latest dives into @kenanfikri.bsky.social's ‪ research on why some US counties remain persistently poor—even when jobs are growing. Find out more here:

How should water rights evolve in the US West given an ongoing "megadrought" and the rapid urbanization of the region? Our latest digest looks at a recent piece by Stephanie Stern & A. Dan Tarlock on how federal policy changes could address current needs.

Check out our digest sharing the 5 key principles @annesosin.bsky.social‬ and Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song identify in their recent work offering new directions for policy, practice, and research to reverse the decline of rural public health:

Check out our digest of ‪@fhisey.bsky.social‬, Melissa Heppner, and Andrea Olive’s qualitative study on how social acceptance and material resources complicate the return of bison to the Canadian plains. Read more on how land, animals, and history intersect:

Our first roundup of the summer shares recent scholarship including Elena Faieta, Zhexin Feng, and Michel Serafinelli on rural employment trends in Western Europe, Shivalika Madgulkar and Jampel Dell’Angelo on land grabbing, news and commentary, a webinar rec, and upcoming rural-related events:

Our digest of Elizabeth Kronk Warner and Jesús A. Salazar's article on shared stewardship shares their insights on the role of tribal governments in the management of U.S. public lands and identifies opportunities for future collaboration.

Our latest digest shares the work of @ruraldemography.bsky.social‬, @jtommueller.bsky.social‬, Brian C. Thiede, and Daniel T. Lichter examining the underappreciated role of diversity in nonmetropolitan areas and identifying patterns underlying recent changes to rural demographics.

That's us! Join us! Workshop November 15, 2025; abstracts due August 29, 2025.

How might we understand the place-based policy efforts of the Biden administration? Our digest on @gretegans.bsky.social‬'s taxonomy of ‘Bidenomics’ classifies 4 major policy types targeting regional inequality and is a great place to start:

This week's digest features an examination of the statistics of winning and losing adverse possession claims on US forestland by Hui Wang and Changyou Sun:

Our latest digest shares the work of Mathilde Cohen and Amy Cohen using Maine's 2021 constitutional amendment to a right to food to explore what happens when the idea of a right to food is framed as a personal liberty.

Our latest digest highlights the work of @drxdunlap.bsky.social, Benjamin K. Sovacool, and Bojana Novaković, considering the impact rapid spread of solar panel projects have on often overlooked rural people and the desert habitat they call home.

This month's roundup shares scholarship by @emilyreisman.bsky.social, @landstuff.bsky.social, @zeniakish.bsky.social on agrarian platform capitalism, news and commentary on recent rural-related happenings, a map of news access across the state of Nebraska, and more!

This week's digest shares the work of @jcallahanbryant.bsky.social and @j-farrell.bsky.social, urging a closer look at conservative thought in relation to the natural environment and the theoretical underpinnings of its connection to nature.

What role can technology play in maintaining social cohesion in rural communities? Our latest digest features Rita Helena Phillips' closer look into community relationships in Upper Austria during the lockdowns of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Our newest digest highlights the work of Loka Ashwood, Aimee Imlay, Lindsay Kuehn, Allen Franco, and Danielle Diamond, offering the first analysis and guide to the right-to-farm laws that have been adopted by states across the country over the last 50 years.

Wondering about the state of rural journalism? Check out our latest digest featuring the research of Jessica Walsh, Mildred F. Perreault, @acadianjprof.bsky.social, and @ruthmoon.bsky.social, exploring how rural journalists report on the environment to their communities.

Our March roundup highlights research on public health resilience, placed-based policies (by @gretegans.bsky.social), and the right to food, in addition to sharing recent news, an upcoming "Shaping the Future of Food" webinar from @iatp.bsky.social, and a podcast rec.

Check out our latest digest sharing work by Brian Highsmith on how regulation of the railroad industry in the 19th century offers insights into addressing the location incentive megadeals of today.

New digest features the work of Astrid Cullmann, Julia Rechlitz, Greta Sundermann, and Nicole Wägner analyzing the costs of removing nitrates from the public water supply in Germany.

Rescheduled! Due to winter weather conditions in Nebraska, we are moving this play reading and discussion back one week, to March 11. Details here: www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/... @rural-reconcile.bsky.social

Our latest digest highlights Jonathan D. Rosenbloom's take on "sacrifice zones." Rather than designating a wasteland, "sacrifice zones" could offer a legal mechanism to address climate factors and allow for the restoration of ecosystems.

This month's roundup highlights articles on rural infrastructure, car dependency, and public health, recent news and commentary, a podcast recommendation about community colleges as rural economic drivers and more! #rural

Excited to share our latest digest featuring recent work by our very own Project Director @jessicashoemaker.bsky.social this week! Read about the relationship between property law and human placemaking and how a clearer language can help sort out what is at stake. #rural

Our latest digest features the work of Julie C. Keller, Blake Harrison, and Corey Lang on how land trusts in New England struggle to meet the needs of farmers and gardeners of marginalized backgrounds. #rural

Our January roundup shares recent scholarship on the limitations of sociology's conception of land, rural areas as demographic holdouts, plus more research, news items, and a discussion about how best to report on contentious issues in rural communities.

Our first digest of the year shares the of work by Tobias Franz and Angus McNelly exploring the relationship between finance capital, mineral extraction, and the environmental and the societal implications of the green transition:

Rural land ownership in Jotwell!

Our last roundup of the year shares recent scholarship on Irish women and farm ownership, intergenerational farm succession in the United States, agrarian-urban frontiers in India, plus more research, news, and commentaries. We'll be back in a few weeks to welcome 2025! #rural

Our latest digest highlights Wendy Pfrenger's work exploring Critical Rural Theory as it applies to rural education research and offers new approaches for understanding the impact of increasing urbanization on rural people and communities. #rural

This post will charm you for your Friday morning: workshop recap and photos from the beautiful old capitol building at the University of Iowa! www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

New digest shares work by @daltenwfox.bsky.social, Sophia Borgias, and Kate Berry on the positive impact of “unlikely alliances” among groups that traditionally may have been in opposition but find ways to work together to tackle critical environmental issues. #rural

Our latest digest features the creative and scholarly work of Ruth McAreavey and @hennaasikainen.bsky.social as they navigate the contours of migration and belonging through a series of walks with refugees along Hadrian’s Wall. #rural

Headed home for the holidays? About to experience your own rural-urban divide at the Thanksgiving table? We’ve got you covered with this recording and summary of our recent Rural Voter event: www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

Nebraska is the only state with 100% publicly-owned power. In the midst of a massive energy transition, what can we learn from this novel electric system? Energy expert Ryan McKeever (UNL Law '24) shares important insights. www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/...

This week's roundup shares recent work by Matthew M. Brooks and Shelley Clark (@mcgillu.bsky.social) on family formation in rural America, Grete Gansauer on place-based policies, and news & commentary on changing rural populations. #rural ##https://www.ruralreconcile.org/ruralreview/roundup110824

Looking forward to our Fall 2024 Law and Rurality Workshop in a few weeks. Schedule now public, with great appreciation to our friends and local hosts at the University of Iowa for putting these final details together: www.ruralreconcile.org/programs/fal...

Today at noon CT! Join us from wherever you are: go.unl.edu/ruralvoter

We're delighted to welcome two fantastic members to the RRP Team: Grace Tracy and Katelyn Miller, both second-year @UNLCollegeofLaw students, who are joining us as our newest research assistants!