Full Description
This book offers a unique look at rural access to justice through a series of personal and professional reflections by leading scholars in the field.
Engaging a "position sensibility", it explores how our identities, class backgrounds, and professional privileges shape research and writing in rural places—and how those rural places in turn shape us.
This is an important collection, for while rural justice gaps are well-documented, considerably less has been written about the distinct opportunities that rural communities present for collaborative research, innovation, and policy development. The book offers us an honest, reflexive accounting of what has been done, why, and what's next to dismantle academic barriers and promote meaningful work on rural access to justice.
As a call to still deeper engagement with rurality, this book will inspire readers to consider rural place in their studies of law—and to consider their own place in scholarship on access to justice.
Contents
1. Introduction: Why Positionality Matters to Rural Access to Justice, Rebecca Sandefur (Arizona State University, American Bar Foundation , USA)
2. Race, Rurality, and Marginalization in the American South, Lauren Sudeall (Georgia State University College of Law USA)
3. From the Valleys to the Academy, Daniel Newman (Cardiff University UK)
4. The Language of a Place, Michele Statz (University of Minnesota Medical School, USA)
5. Farms, Floods and Fires: Considerations of Access to Justice in the Australian Context, Alistair Harkness (University of New England, Australia)
6. My Past is My Present: Teaching In and Writing About a Home Community, Hannah Haksgaard (University of South Dakota School of Law, USA)
7. Claiming the South, Elizabeth Chambliss (University of South Carolina School of Law, USA)
8. The Slain South African Police Officer's Legacy Lives On: A Tortuous, Unexpected and Incredible Historical Journey of a Rural Criminologist, Witness Maluleke (University of Limpopo South Africa)
9. An Escape to Rurality, Maybell Romero (Tulane University Law School, USA)
10. Experiences on (Rural) Access to Justice in Brazil, Leslie Ferraz (United Nations, Brazil)
11. "Do What Has to Be Done": The Codes We Live By and How they Shape Relationships and Research on Rural Access to Justice, Hillary Wandler (University of Montana School of Law, USA)
12. Legal Pluralism and Human Rights Concerns, Wilfredo Ardito (Department of Law of Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú, Peru)
13. Data Collection in the Settler Countryside: Reflecting on Positionality and 'Dense Aquaintanceship', Brieanna Watters (University of Minnesota, USA)
14. Conclusion: Positionality and Place, Mark Fathi Massoud (U California Santa Cruz, USA)
