Just Rural Futures

Just Rural Futures is a collective thought project of the Rural Geography Specialty Group (RGSG) of the American Association of Geographers, which aims to counter-narrate what it means to be rural in the 21st century.

Too often, rural areas—in the Global North, Global South, and the Global Semi-periphery—are stereotyped, imagined, and researched as one-dimensional, anachronistic spaces. A project of the Rural Geography Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers, the Just Rural Futures blog aims to counter this narrative by building a new one: where rural areas are rich, diverse, socially complex, innovative, creative spaces at the forefront of social, environmental and political change. The writing you will find here takes up this charge by problematizing justice, equity, diversity, inclusion, belonging, and other indicators of social change as they are expressed in peripheral spaces and communities around the globe.

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Blog co-editors

Just Rural Futures is co-edited by Aída Guhlincozzi (Assistant professor, University of Missouri, Left Up), Grete Gansauer (Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Pittsburgh, Right Up), Lavanya Gupta (Ph.D. candidate, Tata Institute Of Social Sciences, India and RGSG Student Representative, Left Down), Thabo Sebobi, MA Student, Binghamton University, New York and RGSG Student Representative)

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The Just Rural Futures blog is a collective thought project with feminist and anti-racist orientations to re-narrate what it means to be rural in the 21st century. It is organized by American Association of Geographers' Rural Geography Specialty Group.

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The Just Rural Futures blog is a collective thought project of the Rural Geography Specialty Group (RGSG) of the American Association of Geographers to counter-narrate what it means to be rural in the 21st century.