Abstract Immigrant farmworkers from Latin America experience multiple challenges in rural
Vermont. A large body of literature has shown the benefits that collective agency can …

Civic engagement involves active participation in political and nonpolitical contexts in one's
community. Research consistently demonstrates that sociodemographic factors …

This article brings together education, rural sociology, and political economic perspectives to
examine the role of Appalachia in ongoing conversations about civic polity and dynamics of …

This article discusses the growing political divide in the United States and how ideological
polarization has increasingly assumed spatial dimensions, as rural areas have become …

The natural and built environment of rural communities in southwestern Uruguay have been
recently impacted by the intensification and expansion of agriculture. A large body of …

Even as the 2016 elections brought increased public attention to rural life, stereotypes and
misconceptions abound. One of these misperceptions is the generalization that prices are …

Theories of the environmental state–treadmill of production and ecological modernization–
have dominated discussion of the political economy of environmental change. While the …

In popular discourse, Alabama is often taken as a metonym for Trump's America: emblematic
of the misogynist, racist and xenophobic politics of the populist groundswell. I interrogate this …

The most significant political fact of the latest elections within the European Union is the
growth, in all states, of right‐wing “populist” political formations. Alongside this, one of the …

While recent scholarship on rural politics in the United States has focused almost exclusively
on right-wing populism, capital's power over the land has also spurred nonpartisan …