I am pumped to finally have the first day of my Law in Rural America seminar at @UMichLaw today!!!!!!! This week we're asking, what is rural anyway? For those following along, here's what we're reading to figure out an answer...
First, Michael Ratcliff from the @uscensusbureau has written concise and useful overviews of how the folks with the Census have historically defined rural. Check out this brief: www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/refer… and this multi-authored one: www2.census.gov/geo/pdfs/refer…
Of course, no #RuralLaw syllabus would be complete without work from @lisareneepruitt. This week I've assigned a chapter she wrote on the "rural lawscape" in an edited collection on legal geography: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf… ...
... and a section of Pruitt's classic article, Rural Rhetoric: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
All of this is paired with a chunk of Debra Lyn Bassett's article, Ruralism, in which she delineates ways in which rural communities experience an anti-rural bias in American law and culture. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
TL;DR: Here's two news articles--the first from @AmandaLKool at the @dailyyonder, Speak Your Piece: Who You Callin’ Metropolitan? dailyyonder.com/speak-piece-ca… and...
...the second from Kenneth Johnson at the @ConversationEDU, Where is ‘rural America,’ and what does it look like? theconversation.com/where-is-rural… 🙌/fin
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