83rd Annual Meeting of the Rural Sociological Society

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83rd Annual Meeting of the Rural

Sociological Society

Rurality and Crises of Democracy

Virtual Paper and Panel Schedule

June 1 - July 28, 2021

Schedule-at-a-Glance 6/7/2021

Tuesday, June 1 Wednesday Thursday, June 3 FridayRIG Rural Policy RIG RIG International Develop. RIG

11:00 AM Rural Development Challenges: Land Ownership, Unemployment, and Social Welfare

11:00 AM 11:00 AM Policy, Empowerment, and Governance

11:00 AM

RIG Rural Policy RIG RIG International Develop. RIG

1:00 PM New Governance Shifts in Rural America

1:00 PM 1:00 PM International Rural Development 1:00 PM

Tuesday, June 8 Wednesday Thursday, June 10 FridayRIG RIG Youth, Ed., & Rural Vit. RIG

11:00 AM 11:00 AM Rural Education Programs 11:00 AM

RIG Population RIG RIG Youth, Ed., & Rural Vit. RIG

1:00 PM U.S. Census Bureau's Rural Resources

1:00 PM 1:00 PM Education, Mobility, and Rural Development

1:00 PM

Tuesday, June 15 Wednesday Thursday, June 17 FridayRIG Natural Resources RIG RIG Natural Resources RIG

11:00 AM Water and Rural Populations 11:00 AM 11:00 AM Natural Resources in Diverse Societies

11:00 AM

RIG NatRes & Rural Race Eth. RIG RIG Natural Resources RIG

1:00 PM Rural Sociology on Stolen Land. Settler-Colonialism and Natural Resources in America

1:00 PM 1:00 PM Debating From the Inside Out: Author Meets Critic Panel with Jill Harrison

1:00 PM

Week 1. May 30 - June 5

Week 2. June 6 - 12

Week 3. June 13 - 19


Tuesday Wednesday Thursday, June 24 FridayRIG Rural Poverty

11:00 AM Geographic and Social Insight into Rural Poverty

Tuesday, June 29 Wednesday, June 30 Thursday, July 1 FridayRIG Comm., Health & Fam. RIG Comm., Health & Fam. RIG Comm., Health & Fam. RIG

11:00 AM In Consideration of Industry and Place

11:00 AM In Consideration of Health and Wellbeing

11:00 AM In Consideration of Place 11:00 AM

RIG Comm., Health & Fam. RIG RIG Comm., Health & Fam. RIG

1:00 PM COVID Conundrums within the Community

1:00 PM 1:00 PM Life Course and the Community 1:00 PM

Tuesday, July 6 Wednesday, July 7 Thursday, July 8 FridayRIG Rural Studies RIG Gender & Sexualities RIG Rural Studies RIG

11:00 AM Grounding of Religion: Faith, Ecology and the Rural

11:00 AM The Continued Disparities Caused by Power Differences in Agriculture

11:00 AM Conceptualizing the Realities of Rurality

11:00 AM

RIG Rural Studies RIG Teaching and Curriculum RIG Rural Studies RIG

1:00 PM Civic Activism and Political Change in the Countryside

1:00 PM Digital Learning Tech in the Post-COVID Classroom

1:00 PM Law and Order - RSS 1:00 PM

Week 4. June 20 - 26

Week 5. June 27 - July 3

Week 6. July 4 - 10


Tuesday, July 13 Wednesday, July 14 Thursday, July 15 Friday, July 16RIG SAFRIG RIG SAFRIG RIG SAFRIG RIG SAFRIG

11:00 AM Pushing Back Against the Dominant Powers of Agri-food Systems

11:00 AM Causes and Consequences of Economic and Mental Crises Among the Farm Population

11:00 AM Injustices in Agriculture Labor Systems

11:00 AM Defetishizing the Family Farm: Alternative Perspectives on Farm Life

RIG SAFRIG RIG SAFRIG RIG SAFRIG RIG

1:00 PM Roadblocks and Opportunities for More Sustainable Modes of Food Production

1:00 PM Governance and Membership in Agri-food Systems

1:00 PM Dualism in Agri-food Studies 1:00 PM

RIG SAFRIG

4:00 PM Business Meeting

Tuesday, July 20 Wednesday Thursday, July 22 FridayRIG Population RIG RIG Population RIG

11:00 AM COVID'S Effects on Rural People and Places

11:00 AM 11:00 AM Changing Rural Demographics 11:00 AM

RIG Population RIG RIG Ap & Ex and Teaching RIG

1:00 PM Rural Migration 1:00 PM 1:00 PM Rural Outreach and Teaching 1:00 PM

Tuesday, July 27 Wednesday, July 28

RIG The Elders RIG The Elders

11:00 AM Voices of the Pioneers: The History of Women in RSS

3:00 PM Elder Rural Sociologists: Active Careers and Active Retirements

Week 7. July 11 - 17

Week 8. July 18 - 24

Week 9. July 25 -31


Thursday, July 29 Friday, July 30 Saturday, July 31 Sunday, August 1RSS RSS RSS RSS

12:00 - 1:15 PM

Welcome and President's Address

12:00 - 1:15 PM

Graduate Students - Panel: Academic and Non-Academic Job Market

12:00 - 1:15 PM

Plenary Speaker: Earl Wright, Booker T. Washington, Tuskegee Institute, and a Colonized Discipline: The Black and Southern Roots of Rural Sociology in the United States

12:00 - 1:15 PM

Plenary: Ruy Teixeira

1:30 - 2:45 PM

RSS 2021-2022 Full Council Mtg. (Council members, only)

1:30 - 2:45 PM

Panel: Translating Rural Sociological Scholarship to a Broader Audience

1:30 - 2:45 PM

Rurality, Race & Ethnicity: Session 1

1:30 - 2:45 PM

Awards Ceremony

3:00 - 4:15 PM

3:00 - 4:15 PM

Plenary Speaker: Raj Patel 3:00 - 4:15 PM

Rurality, Race & Ethnicity: Session 2

3:00 - 4:15 PM

Ethics Committee Report and Q & A

4:30 - 6:00 PM

4:30 - 6:00 PM

Panel: Civic Activism and Political Change in the Countryside

4:30 - 6:00 PM

Roundtable: Researching Race and Ethnicity in Rural Sociology

4:30 - 6:00 PM

RSS Business Mtg.

Tentative Schedule July 29 - August 1, 2021 (Registration Required)

2021 RSS Virtual Mtg. June 7, 2021 1


Week 1. May 30 – June 5 Tuesday, June 1 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Rural Development Challenges: Land Ownership, Unemployment, and Social Welfare Sponsoring RIG: Rural Policy Paper Titles and Authors:

Land Grabbing in the Colombian Altillanura. Dynamics of Conflict and Development, Álvaro Germán Torres Mora Structural Unemployment as a Barrier to Energy Transition: A Pareto Case for Cost-to-Retrain, Jennifer E. Rachels, Richelle Winkler, Joshua Pearce, and Laura Connolly The Relationships Between Heir Property and Civic Participations in Macon County, Alabama, Kara Woods, Robert Zabawa, and Lonnie Hannon

Tuesday, June 1 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Panel: New Governance Shifts in Rural America: Economic Development, Public Service Provisions, and the Politics of Protecting Communities’ Well Being Sponsoring RIG: Rural Policy Paper Titles and Authors:

Organizers: Paige Kelly, Linda Lobao, Mildred Warner, Xue Zhang, and Yuanshuo Xu Local governments are experiencing dramatic changes across the United States. New governance shifts are altering the ability of localities to protect their populations’ social, economic and environmental wellbeing. Simultaneously, longstanding barriers to economic development and fiscal pressures appear to have increased. While these changes have been scrutinized in select urban case-studies, there is little systematic information about how they are unfolding more broadly across the nation’s localities – both rural and urban. As a result, we know little about the degree to which fiscal pressures are mounting and how localities are coping with recent demands placed on local governments by devolution and the slow economic growth. We also know very little about how local governments are balancing new responsibilities of social redistribution and economic development and the effects this has on communities’ well-being. Finally, the urban-bias in the literature has left a dearth of information about how rural localities are faring and the unique barriers they face. The goal of this paper session is to address the gaps in the research by providing a view of new challenges faced by local governments across the United States in past decade.


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Thursday, June 3 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Policy, Empowerment, and Governance Sponsoring RIG: International Development and Studies Paper Titles and Authors:

Local Content Policies in Africa: Assessment and Roadmap to Success, Djeynaba Ba "Empowerment Can't be Translated into Maya": Perceptions of Empowerment and Gender Justice among Members of Women’s Savings Groups in Central America, Maria Vivanco, Kathleen Sexsmith, Paige Castellanos, and Leland Glenna Development, Significance, and Impact of the Farmers’ Protest Against Three Farm Laws in India, Shamsher Singh Conceptualizations of the Countryside/Urban Divide and Social Mobilization in Uruguay’s Countryside, Diego Thompson

Thursday, June 3 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: International Rural Development Sponsoring RIG: International Development and Studies Paper Titles and Authors:

Mining our Hopes and Dreams: Large-scale Mines and Rural Youth Outcomes in Peru, Carolyn Reyes Inequality in Agrarian Relations: Interrogating Structural Transformations in India Along Axis of Class and Gender, Ishita Mehrotra and Sejuti Das Gupta The Pasture, the Village, and the People: Household Food Security in the Southern Kyrgyz Highlands, Christian Kelly Scott

Week 2. June 6 – 12 Tuesday, June 8 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Special Presentation: U.S. Census Bureau’s Rural Resources Sponsoring RIG: Population Paper Titles and Authors:

Presenters: Cass Logan and Chase Sawyer, U.S. Census Bureau In this session The Community Resilience Estimates and Experimental Pulse Survey will be discussed.





Thursday, June 10 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Rural Education Programs Sponsoring RIG: Youth, Education, and Rural Vitality Paper Titles and Authors:

Online Hidden Narratives During Rural School Consolidation, Casey Jakubowski Comparing Non-English Language Education in Mississippi with Sociodemographic Characteristics, Edith-Marie Green Hearts Removed: The Impacts of Urbanormative Education Policy for Rural Politics and Community, Julia M. Miller Culturally-Inclusive STEM Learning: Mentored Internships for Native American Undergraduates at a Tribal College and a University, Carol Ward and Taylor Topham

Thursday, June 10 Time:1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Education, Mobility, and Rural Development Sponsoring RIG: Youth, Education, and Rural Vitality Paper Titles and Authors:

Stayers or Leavers? Spatial (Im)Mobility Patterns of Young University Graduates Living in Rural Areas in Poland, Ilona Matysiak Household Shocks and Children’s Education in Peru, Carolyn Reyes and Heather Randell Theory and Method for Examining Critical Rural Community Development, Garret Zastoupil

Week 3. June 13 – 19 Tuesday, June 15 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Water and Rural Populations Sponsoring RIG: Natural Resources Paper Titles and Authors:

Rural, Not Just Small: A Review of Social Inequality in Rural Drinking Water Quality Literature, Sharon Engel and Andrea Armstrong Using Scale to Understand Coastal Climate Adaptation: A Global Comparison, Karen M. O'Neill, Heather Fenyk, and Shannon Caplan What Transboundary Water Governance Can Teach Us about the Political Ecology of Social Reproduction in Settler Colonial North America, Johann Strube Developing Participatory Headwater Governance in a Changing Grassroots Democracy: A Case Study from the Headwater of Taipei Metropolis, Taiwan, Hsin-Hua Chiang, Mrittika Basu, Corinthias P. M. Sianipar, Kenichiro Onitsuka, and Satoshi Hoshino



Tuesday, June 15 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Panel: Rural Sociology on Stolen Land. Settler-Colonialism and Natural Resources in America Sponsoring RIG: Natural Resources, Rural Race and Ethnicity Paper Titles and Authors:

Moderator: Johann Strube (The Pennsylvania State University, German/Settler) Panelists, Doreen Martinez (Colorado State University, Mescalero Apache), Lindsey Schneider (Colorado State University, Turtle Mountain Chippewa), Andrew Curley (University of Arizona, Dine), and invited Clint Carroll (University of Colorado, Boulder; Cherokee). What does it mean to research rural places and natural resources in the United States—a nation born from the forceful appropriation of Indigenous land? Why has Rural Sociology as a discipline been largely silent on this injustice that continues to impact the lives of Indigenous peoples today? Why are Indigenous scholars rarely seen at RSS conferences? In what ways may Rural Sociology be complicit in the perpetuation of Settler-colonialism? How can we decolonize our discipline? These are questions that we need to address if Rural Sociology is to live up to our ideal to advance truth and social justice through scholarship. To begin this conversation, four scholars—Indigenous and allies, will share how they decolonize social science research in their work. The panel will be followed by a Q & A and a roundtable discussion in which audience members discuss their own responsibilities, anxieties, and actions towards decolonization.

Thursday, June 17 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Natural Resources in Diverse Societies Sponsoring RIG: Natural Resources Paper Titles and Authors:

Negotiating the Northwoods: Anti-establishment Rural Politics in the Northeastern United States, Claudine Pied Managing Community Forest Risk and Benefits as a Function of Democratic Society, Abbie Judice and Jason Gordon Labor Migration and the Environment: Insights from Polish Workers in Norway, Shaun A. Golding and Jakub Stachowski





Thursday, June 17 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Panel: Debating From the Inside Out: An Author Meets Critic Panel with Jill Harrison Sponsoring RIG: Natural Resources Paper Titles and Authors:

Participants: Ian Carrillo, Jill Harrison, Annabel Ipsen, Stephen Gasteyer, Loka Ashwood, and Karen O'Neill This ‘author-meets-critics’ panel engages Jill Harrison’s recently published book From the Inside Out (MIT Press, 2019). From the Inside Out investigates issues central to the theme of the Rural Sociological Society’s 2021 conference, “Rurality and Crises of Democracy.” A central aim of the book is to study why government agencies responsible for environmental regulation, such as the EPA, permit the perpetuation of injustices. State regulatory agencies continue to neglect environmental justice principles, despite social movement activists successful push to have such principles enshrined in law and federal directives. In From the Inside Out, Harrison studies the bureaucratic culture that hinders regulatory agencies’ attempts to promote environmental justice. Harrison’s fieldwork entailed more than 160 interviews with EPA staff members and environmental justice activists, and 50 hours of participant observation of agency meetings. Harrison provides of a novel account of, on the one hand, how bureaucrats within the agency defend the status quo while also weakening and impugning environmental justice directives and, on the other hand, how environmental justice reformers resist the status quo by seeking to change regulatory activities from within the bureaucracy. Harrison is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Colorado-Boulder and is the past chair of the Environmental Sociology section in the American Sociological Association.

Week 4. June 20 – 26 Thursday, June 24 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Geographic and Social Insights into Rural Poverty Sponsoring RIG: Rural Poverty Paper Titles and Authors:

Rural Lives: Understanding Financial Hardship and Vulnerability in Rural Britain, Mark Shucksmith, Polly Chapman, Jayne Glass, and Jane Atterton Addressing Geographic Economic Inequity: Can Tax Policy Narrow the Urban/Rural Divide?, Nancy E. Shurtz Quantifying Heirs Property Across the Deep South: A Geospatial Approach, Ryan Thomson and Conner Bailey Going After the Locals: Policing, Second Homeownership, and Social Inequality in Rural Upstate New York, Michael Branch Self-Reliance and Staff Surrogacy: How Rurality and Gender Shape Stigma Management for People Experiencing Homelessness, Daisy Rooks



Week 5. June 27 – July 3 Tuesday, June 29 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: In Consideration of Industry and Place Sponsoring RIG: Community, Health and Family Paper Titles and Authors:

“They Told Us It was Safe So We Believed Them”: A Case Study of Environmental Contamination, Justice, and Knowledge, India Luxton and Stephanie Malin Coal Country Despair: A Contextual Comparison of Mining Counties Across the United States, Aysha Bodenhamer and Raeven Faye Chandler Motivation Factors of Tourists in the Finger Lakes Region: Keuka and Seneca Wine Trails, Melis Kural Hog Farms and Hegemony in Rural North Carolina, Dalton Richardson

Tuesday, June 29 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: COVID Conundrums within the Community Sponsoring RIG: Community, Health and Family Paper Titles and Authors:

COVID-19 Perceptions and Behaviors Along the Rural-Urban Continuum in Utah, Jessica D. Ulrich-Schad and Jennifer Givens Are Socioeconomic-Demographic Characteristics and Health Associated with Governmental Response During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Rural Adults?, M.E.B. Garrison, I. Caldwell, T. Killian, K. Way, and Z. Moon. “The Fine Line: Rural Justice, Public Health and Safety, and the Coronavirus Pandemic”, Jennifer Sherman and Jennifer Schwartz Rural-Urban Differences in Community Resilience to COVID-19 in the United States, Katherine Ann Willyard

Wednesday, June 30 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: In Consideration of Health and Wellbeing Sponsoring RIG: Community, Health and Family Paper Titles and Authors:

Aging into Disability and Aging with Disability in Rural Counties: Implications of the Role of Community Characteristics, Megan Henly The Effect of Sexual Violence on Later-Life Reproductive Decisions, Jorden E. Jackson Linking Planning and Health in Tompkins County: Cross-Agency Collaboration to Bridge the Rural-Urban Divide, Xue Zhang, Mildred Warner, Lin Oo, Grace McCarthy, Robyn Wardell, and Jeremy Xu



Thursday, July 1 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: In Consideration of Place Sponsoring RIG: Community, Health and Family Paper Titles and Authors:

Hosting a Market is Just the First Step: Exploring the Relationship between Community Characteristics and Farmers Market Size, Ethan D. Schoolman and Justin L. Schupp ‘We’re Not Done Yet’: Public Intellectuals, Rural Communities, and Racial Equity Organizing, Alexis Grant-Panting Predicting Levels of Religious Social Capital: Do Rural or Urban Areas Matter?, Paul D. Anderson, Jr. Internet Accessibility and Daily Contacts among Rural Residents: Exploring Contextual Variations in 29 Countries, Hui-Ju Kuo, Yun-Hsuan Wu, Yeu-Sheng Hsieh, and Yang-chih Fu

Thursday, July 1 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Life Course and the Community Sponsoring RIG: Community, Health and Family Paper Titles and Authors:

Age-Friendly Rural Communities - Linking Planning, Services and Health, Xue Zhang and Mildred Warner Addressing Challenges of Age Friendly Communities in the Florida Black Belt, Dreamal Worthen and Gail Randolph





Week 6. July 4 – 10 Tuesday, July 6 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Panel: Grounding of Religion: Faith, Ecology and the Rural Sponsoring RIG: Rural Studies Paper Titles and Authors:

Participants: Michael Bell, Margaux Crider, Hannah Kass, Patrick Mooney, and Mpumelelo Ncwadi Religion is starting to come out of the clouds and back to Earth, where it began. Since the post-Bronze Age rise of large urban-based empires, the major world religions have had little to say about ecological matters. Recently, though, there has been much excitement about what is often called the “greening” of religion in which the major faiths have started to find some space for environmental concerns, generally through sacralizing the ecological as the creation of the divine. But we see something even more fundamental underway, especially in the last decade or so, what in this panel we term the “grounding” of religion. By “grounding,” we mean to include but go beyond “greening,” both morally and empirically, to include agrarian sensibilities for sustenance, place, and ancestors, and for addressing issues of rural and ecological justice. Whereas the greening of faith has generally remained pretty high up in the clouds, with little fundamental change in faith and its post-Bronze Age urban focus, movements for the grounding of faith dig more deeply into the soils of tradition – and more deeply into the rural. In this panel, we describe and debate these movements for grounding religion, focusing on Christianity, Judaism, and contemporary ancestor veneration, and their implications for the rural sociology of both urban and rural life.

Tuesday, July 6 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Civic Activism and Political Change in the Countryside Sponsoring RIG: Rural Studies Paper Titles and Authors:

“There’s Something Kind of Big in Front of Us, but We Can’t do Anything About It”: Activism at the Crossroads of Rurality and Adolescence, Anna Sorensen and Leandra Smollin Political Engagement, Emancipatory Voices, and the Challenges to Strengthen Farming Resilience in the Brazilian Metropolitan Countryside, Felipe da Silva Machado Caste, Citizenship and Governance: a Study of Gambhira of North Bengal, India, Dolon Sarkar A Stitch in Time: Collective Memory and the Social Construction of Rural Sociology’s History, Julie N. Zimmerman





Wednesday, July 7 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: The Continued Disparities Caused by Power Differences in Agriculture Sponsoring RIG: Gender and Sexualities Paper Titles and Authors:

Rethinking Food Regime as Gender Regime: Agrarian Change and the Politics of Social Reproduction in Agro-Food Systems, Diana Mincyte Climate Chance and the Feminization of Agriculture in South Asia, Emily M.L. Southard and Heather Randall Born to Rule: Patrimonial Organizations and the Treadmill of Production, Ian Carrillo Agroecology, Market Reform, and Women’s Work in Western India, Krushna Ranaware

Wednesday, July 7 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Panel: Digital Learning Tech in the Post-COVID Classroom Sponsoring RIG: Teaching and Curriculum

Moderators: Stephanie Teixeira Poit and Amanda Buday

The pandemic has called on many of us to employ creative strategies for enhancing engagement in the virtual classroom, including the use of digital communication and collaboration technologies. As many college campuses prepare for the resumption of traditional face-to-face instruction during the 2021-2022 academic year, which of your favorite digital learning technologies will you retain as you make the shift from virtual to in-person instruction? This session will be a “swap meet” style workshop for sharing resources about incorporating digital learning technologies in the traditional classroom. Participants will prepare concise resources - such as lessons, handouts, troubleshooting guides, etc. - that can be digitally exchanged with other participants, and will discuss successes and failures of experiments in online learning over the past year.

Thursday, July 8 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Conceptualizing the Realities of Rurality Sponsoring RIG: Rural Studies Paper Titles and Authors:

Rural Areas and Agriculture in a Post-industrial Society: Decouplage? Analysis of Rural Gentrification Process in Poland, Dominika Zwęglińska-Gałecka Where the Home Fires Burn: The Heart of Geographic Mobility in Rural Southern America, Mariah Moran "Its Own Little City": Service Work in Truck Stops, Michelle Williams From Snapshots to Collages: Exploring Rural Mississippi to Inform Development Policy and Practice, John J. Green



Thursday, July 8 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Law and Order - RSS Sponsoring RIG: Rural Studies Paper Titles and Authors:

The Gateway to Mass Incarceration: An Institutional Perspective on Jail Expansion, Sarah Walton Rural Resentment and the Regulatory State, Ann Eisenberg Legal Support and Services for Rural Victims, Hannah Haksgaard Theorizing Race, Justice, and Rurality after George Floyd: A Reflexive Approach, Robert Chilies, Kayla Kemp, Martha Ferrera Baca, Julia Dillavou, and Ty W. Butler Lethal Violence Across Rurality: The Case for Lethal Violence as a Form of Deaths of Despair in Rural Areas, Cameron McAlister

Week 7. July 11 – 17 Tuesday, July 13 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Pushing Back Against the Dominant Powers of Agri-food Systems Sponsoring RIG: SAFRIG Paper Titles and Authors:

Alternative Seed Systems in Vermont: Contesting the Dominance of the Agrichemical Industry, Daniel Tobin Perpetuating Polarizing Narratives about Genetically Modified Crops: Social Movements, Transnational Scripts, and Spatial Mismatch, Annabel Ipsen Competing Expectations, Alternative Agricultural Futures: EU Policy Narratives on Gene Editing in Agriculture and Food, Sonja Lindberg, Carmen Bain, and Theresa Selfa The Corporation is Dead: Reflections on my Last Conversation with Larry Busch, Michael Bell





Tuesday, July 13 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Roadblocks and Opportunities for More Sustainable Modes of Food Production Sponsoring RIG: SAFRIG Paper Titles and Authors:

Drought Tolerant Seed Use in the Eastern Corn Belt: Using Seed Dealer Interviews to Understand the Lack of Adoption, Victoria Seest and Mathew Houser Exploring System Lock-in as a Barrier for Transitioning to Organic Grain Production in Indiana, Analena Bruce, James Farmer, Michael O'Donnell, Tamara Benjamin, and Stephanie Dickinson Sustainable Intensification in Aquaculture: The Possible and the Peril, Juliana S.G. Lima and Conner Bailey Trends in Urban Agriculture: A Spatial and Historical Examination of Demographics Associated with Community Gardens and Urban Farms in Ohio, Kelsey Ryan-Simkins

Wednesday, July 14 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Causes and Consequences of Economic and Mental Crises Among the Farm Population Sponsoring RIG: SAFRIG Paper Titles and Authors:

Bridging the Gap Between Rich and Poor Farmers in the Peninsular Region of India, B.C.V.S. Shekar and P. K. Viswanathan Black Farmer Survival: Navigating Hardships to Achieve Resilience, Andrew R. Smolski and Michael D. Schulman Wellbeing and Societal Alienation Among Farmers: The Case of Flanders, Belgium, Arthur Sanders, Adam Jeroen, Lies Messely, and Charlotte Prové

Wednesday, July 14 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Governance and Membership in Agri-food Systems Sponsoring RIG: SAFRIG Paper Titles and Authors:

Local Control and Inequity: Who Gets to Define and Defend (Agri)Culture?, Margiana Petersen-Rockney Farm Membership Associations: The Life or the Death of Democracy?, Kathryn G. Anderson Mosquito Net Fishing (MNF) as a Normal Accident, Rick Welsh, David Larsen, Elizabeth Pickard, Joe Bisesi, Sadie Ryan, Joseph Makaure, and Donald Stewart



Thursday, July 15 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Injustices in Agriculture Labor Systems Sponsoring RIG: SAFRIG Paper Titles and Authors:

Workplace Preference Among Farmworkers: Piece Rate, Pesticides, and the Perspective of Fruit and Vegetable Harvesters, Rachel Soper Agricultural Apprenticeships and Internships: Implications for the Future of Farmers and Farm Laborers, Kaitlin Fischer Food Justice and Farmers’ Networks: An Examination of Coalition Building among Women Growers Across the Rural-Urban Divide in Pennsylvania, Michaela Hoffelmeyer

Thursday, July 15 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Dualism in Agri-food Studies Sponsoring RIG: SAFRIG Paper Titles and Authors:

“Organic is Capitalist and Agroecology is Socialist”: Alternative Farmers’ Approaches to Food Insecurity Beyond Dualisms, Isaac Sohn Leslie Agrifood in the Anthropocene, Douglas H. Constance and Allison M. Loconto Good Farm/Bad Farm: The Impact of Political Divisions on American Farming and Land Use Practices, Claudine Pied and Shan Sappleton





Friday, July 16 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Panel: Defetishizing the Family Farm: Alternative Perspectives on Farm Life Sponsoring RIG: SAFRIG Paper Titles and Authors:

Organizer: Michaela Hoffelmeyer Rural Sociologists have a longstanding interest in the survival of farm households. In the U.S., the “family farm” exemplifies the desired form of farm life to be supported and maintained for the benefit of rural communities. Scholars have emphasized the hardship that family farms face in maintaining a viable operation through examining off-farm employment, lack of healthcare, and mental health issues. Building on critiques of idealized notions of family farming, this panel offers a deep dive into the very institution of the “family farm.” Family farms are presented as a “natural” way to organize farm life, and as such, have undergone little scrutiny in terms of the implications for diverse populations in farming. Because various actors promote the family farm from agribusiness to the alternative agriculture movement, it is time to raise questions about how this ideal may contribute to power structures and norms in agriculture. Dr. Justine Lindemann, Dr. Amanda Shaw, Dr. Kathy Sexsmith, and Dr. Isaac Leslie will offer intersectional feminist Black, migrant, decolonial, and queer perspectives to critically reexamine how the family farm influences the agri-food system and sociological research. Panelists will examine the following questions: (1) How are Black, queer, migrant, and indigenous communities represented or reflected in current research on family farms? (2) What are the historical and contemporary influences of family farming in these communities? (3) What, if any, alternative ways of organizing farming and farm life do these communities utilize? Panelists will offer insights as to how Rural Sociology and research more broadly might bring these alternative agrarian perspectives to bear in future farming research.

Friday, July 16 Time: 4:00 pm EDT

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Week 8. July 18 – 24 Tuesday, July 20 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Panel: COVID’s Effects on Rural People and Places Sponsoring RIG: Population Paper Titles and Authors:

Panelists: Kenneth Johnson, Shannon Monnat, Tom Mueller, and Carrie Henning-Smith The panel will discuss changing demographic trends affected by COVID as well as the U.S. Census reclassification of rural/urban.

Tuesday, July 20 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Rural Migration Sponsoring RIG: Population Paper Titles and Authors:

Displacement, Migration, and Social Vulnerability: A Meta-analysis of Natural Disaster Studies, Yining Feng and Guangqing Chi Student Debt and Rural Return Migration, Alec P. Rhodes and Rachel E. Dwyer Perceived Multi-factor Environmental Risk: The Amplifying Effects of Place-based Social Communication Networks on Migration Behavior in Alaska, Jessica A. Miller, Junjun Yin, and Guangqing Chi How Do Environmental Changes and Variations Influence Migration? A Meta-regression Analysis of the Environmental Migration Literature, Shuai Zhou and Guangqing Chi

Thursday, July 22 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Changing Rural Demographics Sponsoring RIG: Population Paper Titles and Authors:

The Changing Landscape of Affordable Housing in the Rural and Urban United States, 1990-2016, Matthew Brooks 2020 Census: Sweeping Changes to Defining "Urban", Michael Commons and Jennifer Zanoni COVID19 Mortality, Racial Disparities, and Landscapes of Despair, Raeven Faye Chandler and Katrina Alford “Save the Cowboy”: Large-Scale Conservation and Early-Stage Rural Gentrification in a Western Agricultural Community, Katherine Curtis, John Canfield, and Danielle Schmidt



Thursday, July 22 Time: 1:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Rural Outreach and Teaching Sponsoring RIG: Applied and Extension & Teaching and Curriculum Paper Titles and Authors:

Unique Conference Design Supports Entrepreneurial Ecosystems in Rural Communities, C. Andrew Northrop, Mary A. Reilly, and Tyler Augst Adding Rural to Urban-Centric Sociology Curriculum, Robert Francis Using Participatory Methods to Develop a Peer-to-Peer Mentoring Program for Rural Outreach and Community Organizing to Address Disability-related Issues, Rayna Sage, Genna Mashinchi, Mary Willard, Tracy Boehm-Barrett, Lillie Greiman, Justice Ender, and Craig Ravesloot

Week 9. July 25 – 31 Tuesday, July 27 Time: 11:00 am EDT Title of Session: Panel: Voices of the Pioneers: The History of Women in RSS Sponsoring RIG: The Elders Paper Titles and Authors:

Moderator: Julie N. Zimmerman Panelists: Cornelia Flora, Louise Fortmann, Sonya Salamon, Dreamal Worthen, and Ann Tickamyer The panel includes five pioneering matriarchs discussing what rural sociology and RSS has been like for women over the years: how has rural sociology and/or RSS changed (or not changed); individuals’ stories of inclusion/exclusion, invisibility, or struggles; stories about early women rural sociologists that panel members knew.

Wednesday, July 28 Time: 3:00 pm EDT Title of Session: Panel: Elder Rural Sociologists: Active Careers and Active Retirements Sponsoring RIG: The Elders Paper Titles and Authors:

Moderator: Deborah Tootle Panelists: Curt Stofferahn, Louis Swanson, Lori Garkovich, Jan Flora, and Neal Flora This diverse panel of retired RSS members will discuss the trajectories of their distinctly active careers and how those careers morphed into active and fulfilling retirements. Panelists will talk about how they often chose the roads less traveled and how that made a difference in their lives and the lives of others. After the panel presentation, attendees are invited to join the panelists for an Alco Tourism Happy Hour of socializing. All participants are encouraged to gather at the “virtual bar” and tell a special story about their special beverage.



NOTES: This link will take you to all sessions: https://byu.zoom.us/j/94121068508?pwd=bUtKTVRNdWM3L2xYSzdZZlhTMExrdz09


Index 2021 Virtual Annual Meeting Paper and Panel Sessions Last Name First Name Page Alford Katrina 14 Anderson Kathryn G. 11 Anderson, Jr. Paul D. 7 Armstrong Andrea 3 Ashwood Loka 5 Atterton Jane 5 Augst Tyler 15 Austin Ashley 2 Ba Djeynaba 2 Baca Martha Ferrera 10 Bailey Conner 5, 11 Bain Carmen 10 Basu Mrittika 3 Bell Michael 8, 10 Benjamin Tamara 11 Bisesi Joe 11 Bodenhamer Aysha 6 Boehm-Barrett Tracy 15 Branch Michael 5 Brooks Matthew 14 Bruce Analena 11 Buday Amanda 9 Butler Ty W. 10 Caldwell I. 6 Canfield John 14 Caplan Shannon 3 Carrillo Ian 5, 9 Carroll Clint 4 Castellanos Paige 2 Chandler Raeven Faye 6, 14 Chapman Polly 5 Chi Guangqing 14 Chiang Hsin-Hua 3 Chiles Robert 10 Commons Michael 14 Connolly Laura 1 Constance Douglas H. 12 Crider Margaux 8

Curley Andrew 4 Curtis Katherine 14 Das Gupta Sejuti 2 Dickinson Stephanie 11 Dillavou Julia 10 Dwyer Rachel E. 14 Eisenberg Ann 10 Ender Justice 15 Engel Sharon 3 Farmer James 11 Feng Yining 14 Fenyk Heather 3 Fischer Kaitlin 12 Flora Cornelia (Neal) 15 Flora Jan 15 Fortmann Louise 15 Francis Robert 15 Fu Yang-Chih 7 Garkovich Lori 15 Garrison M.E.B. 6 Gasteyer Stephen 5 Givens Jennifer 6 Glass Jayne 5 Glenna Leland 2 Golding Shaun A. 4 Gordon Jason 4 Grant-Panting Alexis 7 Green Edith-Marie 3 Green John J. 9 Greiman Lillie 15 Haksgaard Hannah 10 Hannon Lonnie 1 Harrison Jill 5 Henly Megan 6 Henning-Smith Carrie 14 Hoffelmeyer Michaela 12, 13 Hoshino Satoshi 3 Houser Mathew 11 Hsieh Yeu-Sheng 7 Ipsen Annabel 5, 10

Jackson Jorden E. 6 Jakubowski Casey 3 Jeroen Adam 11 Johnson Kenneth 14 Judice Abbie 4 Kass Hannah 8 Kelly Paige 1 Kemp Kayla 10 Killian T. 6 Kuo Hui-Ju 7 Kural Melis 6 Larsen David 11 Leslie Isaac S. 12, 13 Lima Juliana S.G. 11 Lindberg Sonja 10 Lindemann Justine 13 Lobao Linda 1 Loconto Allison M. 12 Logan Cass 2 Luxton India 6 Machado Felipe da Silva 8 Makaure Joseph 11 Malin Stephanie 6 Martinez Doreen 4 Mashinchi Genna 15 Matysiak Ilona 3 McAlister Cameron 10 McCarthy Grace 6 Mehrotra Ishita 2 Messely Lies 11 Miller Jessica A. 14 Miller Julia M. 3 Mincyte Diana 9 Monnat Shannon 14 Moon Z. 6 Mooney Patrick 8 Mora Alvaaro German Torres 1 Moran Mariah 9 Mueller Tom 14 Ncwadi Mpumelelo 8

Northrup C. Andrew 15 O'Donnell Michael 11 O'Neill Karen M. 3, 5 Onitsuia Kenichiro 3 Oo Lin 6 Pearce Joshua 1 Petersen-Rockney Margiana 11 Pickard Elizabeth 11 Pied Claudine 4, 12 Prove Charlotte 11 Rachels Jennifer E. 1 Ranaware Krushna 9 Randell Heather 3, 9 Randolph Gail 7 Ravesloot Craig 15 Reilly Mary A. 15 Reyes Carolyn 2, 3 Rhodes Alec P. 14 Richardson Dalton 6 Rooks Daisy 5 Ryan Sadie 11 Ryan-Simkins Kelsey 11 Sage Rayna 15 Salamon Sonya 15 Sanders Arthur 11 Sappleton Shan 12 Sarkar Dolon 8 Sawyer Chase 2 Schmidt Danielle 14 Schneider Lindsey 4 Schoolman Ethan D. 7 Schulman Michael D. 11 Schupp Justin L. 7 Schwartz Jennifer 6 Scott Christian Kelly 2 Seest Victoria 11 Selfa Theresa 10 Sexsmith Kathleen 2, 13 Shaw Amanda 13 Shekar B.C.V.S. 11

Sherman Jennifer 6 Shucksmith Mark 5 Shurtz Nancy E. 5 Sianipar Corinthias P.M. 3 Singh Shamsher 2 Smollin Leandra 8 Smolski Andrew R. 11 Soper Rachel 12 Sorenson Anna 8 Southard Emily M.L. 9 Stachowski Jakub 4 Stewart Donald 11 Stofferahn Curt 15 Strube Johann 3, 4 Swanson Louis 15 Teixeira Poit Stephanie 9 Thompson Diego 2 Thomson Ryan 5 Tickamyer Ann 15 Tobin Daniel 10 Tootle Deborah 15 Topham Tyler 3 Ulrich-Schad Jessica D. 6 Viswanathan P.K. 11 Vivanco Maria 2 Walton Sarah 10 Ward Carol 3 Wardell Robyn 6 Warner Mildred 1, 6, 7 Way K. 6 Welsh Rick 11 Willard Mary 15 Williams Michelle 9 Willyard Katherine Ann 6 Winkler Richelle 1 Woods Kara A. 1 Worthen Dreamal 7, 15 Wu Yun-Hsuan 7 Xu Yuanshuo 1 Xu Jeremy 6

Yin Junjun 14 Zabawa Robert 1 Zanoni Jennifer 14 Zastoupil Garret 3 Zhang Xue 1, 6, 7 Zhou Shuai 14 Zimmerman Julie N. 8, 15 Zweglinska-Galecka Dominika 9

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