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Curated Track: Rural Geography Specialty Group Curated Track

Description:

Rural and peripheral regions are home to diverse populations with complex socio-environmental vulnerabilities and assets which have been relatively underexplored in the field of geography. Much research in the field of rural geography has documented demographic, cultural, political, and economic trends in peripheral regions of the Global North with the assumption that such regions are older, whiter, poorer than their urban counterparts. Yet by privileging certain trends in the Global North, this narrative obscures the full diversity of the rural condition and fails to capture the full extent of injustice experienced in remote places.

This session aims to elevate voices and topics typically underrepresented in rural geography and rural studies. The RGSG aims to convene a paper session which widens the discipline’s perspective by centering the intersection of rurality and systemic injustice. We invite paper submissions which explore the following subject areas:

· Black, brown, and indigenous rural geographies

· The rural Global South

· Legacies of colonialism in rural and remote places

· Environmental justice and climate justice in rural settings

· Queerness, rural space, and rural culture

· Ableism and rurality

· Youth movements, feminism, and unlikely politics in rural places

· Other papers which broadly explore rural expressions of societal inequality and injustice, with preference given to topics historically underexplored in the field of rural studies.

Non-Presenting Participants