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Reframing the Gender Hierarchy: Challenging the Patriarchy Through Visual Analysis of Photos on Agriculture Organization Websites 重构性别等级：对农业组织网站照片的视觉分析对父权制的挑战

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RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-10-21 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70074

Linda Wirf, Sarina Kilham, Hanabeth Luke, Catherine Allan

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Pathways for Contesting Gender Norms in Rural Development: A Case Study in Colombia 农村发展中反对性别规范的途径：以哥伦比亚为例

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-10-16 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70073

Maria Alejandra García, Maria Claudia Lopez, Lucero Radonic

{"title":"Pathways for Contesting Gender Norms in Rural Development: A Case Study in Colombia","authors":"Maria Alejandra García, Maria Claudia Lopez, Lucero Radonic","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70073","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70073","url":null,"abstract":"The Fifth Sustainable Development Goal on gender equality remains distant in rural areas of low‐and middle‐income countries, where restrictive gender norms persist. While empowerment is promoted as a means of transforming these norms, little is known about how such transformations unfold or about the unintended negative consequences they may generate. We propose an analytical approach to understand how the resources provided by development programs translate into women gaining agency and contesting gender norms, which could lead to norm transformation, and how these processes can trigger negative consequences. We implemented the approach in a case study in Colombia, drawing on a large qualitative sample of 65 interviews with rural women and men. By integrating two distinct areas of scholarship, Gender and Development and Feminist Political Ecology, we identify four pathways through which resources from development programs foster agency while simultaneously producing adverse effects, including verbal intimate partner violence. This study presents an analytical approach useful for scholars and practitioners in development. It also offers empirical evidence of the pathways through which gender norms are contested and highlights the need for strategies to address the unintended negative consequences that may arise when promoting women's empowerment.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"10 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149198910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Childcare and Farm Children's Safety Conundrum 儿童保育和农场儿童的安全难题

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-10-03 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70069

Florence A. Becot, Sarah Ruszkowski

{"title":"The Childcare and Farm Children's Safety Conundrum","authors":"Florence A. Becot, Sarah Ruszkowski","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70069","url":null,"abstract":"What stops farm families from adopting safety practices despite knowing about dangers on the farm? This is a key tension that scholars have worked to resolve to tackle persistently high rates of farm injuries. Using the socio‐ecological model and data from focus groups and a photovoice activity with respectively 68 and 33 farm women from three U.S. states, we used the example of childcare to map out the multiplicity of factors shaping the use of a recommended child safety practice. Participants constantly pointed to the multiplicity of factors they considered. While primary caregivers ultimately made the decisions, practical considerations connected to meso and macro level factors appeared most influential. While limited, variations related to the childcare landscape across the study states highlight the previously underappreciated role of institutional arrangements in shaping farm safety decisions. Contrary to the common portrayal that farm families do not want help, many participants expressed a desire for more childcare options and financial support. While follow‐up studies based on larger samples are needed, implications from the findings are two‐fold. Related to farm safety programming, they suggest the importance of framing focused on practical solutions. From a policy perspective, addressing childcare supply challenges may be more effective in reducing farm children's injuries than regulatory and punitive measures.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149093425","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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The Asymmetric Development of Remote Areas in Texas 德克萨斯州偏远地区的不对称发展

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-09-28 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70071

Matthew Thomas Clement

{"title":"The Asymmetric Development of Remote Areas in Texas","authors":"Matthew Thomas Clement","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70071","url":null,"abstract":"Drawing on the reciprocal dynamics of the growth machine framework, we test whether there was a bidirectional association between road construction and land development in remote, non‐metropolitan census tracts in Texas between 2010 and 2019, during a time when these areas experienced countering land‐use pressures from resource extraction economies, exurbanization, recreational tourism, border infrastructure projects, as well as demographic and economic contraction. Furthermore, we leverage the notion of asymmetry to assess whether these countering pressures shifted the balance of the feedback loop between road construction and land development. For the analysis, we utilize recently updated satellite imagery from the National Land Cover Database's Impervious Descriptor data set, which provides longitudinal information about changes in road and non‐road human built impervious surfaces. Covering the Years 2010–2019, using two waves of first‐differenced values, we estimate two types of models: cross‐lagged structural equation models and temporally lagged first‐differenced spatial regression models. In both types, with the full sample ( n = 245) the results show a significant asymmetric yet reciprocal association between road construction and land development; however, after removing influential cases, only the test for asymmetry is significant, showing that prior road construction significantly spurs later land development, but the subsequent response of road construction to prior land development effectively vanishes. We frame these findings in light of the uneven development of remote, non‐metropolitan areas of Texas.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"198 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123209","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Place Character and the Local Welfare State: Counties' Social Services and Public Provisions Across Rural and Urban Communities 地方特征与地方福利状态：县在城乡社区的社会服务和公共服务

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-09-26 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70070

Paige Kelly, Linda M. Lobao

{"title":"Place Character and the Local Welfare State: Counties' Social Services and Public Provisions Across Rural and Urban Communities","authors":"Paige Kelly, Linda M. Lobao","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70070","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70070","url":null,"abstract":"Relatively little attention has been given to rural local governments' social safety net and public service provisions. We develop a framework to explain how the character of communities influence social and other public services provided by local governments and why rural–urban differences may exist. Theoretically, our framework links conceptualizations of place character with welfare state theory. We illustrate our framework using original primary data collected for 1086 counties spanning the USA. The character of communities varies along economic, sociopolitical, and governmental lines. These same factors influence the services that county governments provide, with results for sociopolitical factors and local government capacity tending to follow welfare state theory. But contrary to views of a binary metro‐nonmetro divide: big‐city metro counties diverge most from others, especially remote rural counties, and possess characteristics that make them much better equipped to protect the local social safety net even as they engage in competitive economic development; suburban metros are closer to their nonmetro counterparts in service provision and governance; and counties overall face operating pressures. Our findings indicate that future work should consider spatial inequality in the social safety net across graduations of rural–urban communities and whether gaps with big‐city metros are intensifying.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"245 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149123965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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“So, Why Did You Return?”: The Journey Back to the Periphery From the Perspective of Local Returnees “那么，你为什么回来？”：从本土海归的视角看回归边缘的旅程

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70068

Mirit Haybi Barak, Yael Grinshtain

{"title":"“So, Why Did You Return?”: The Journey Back to the Periphery From the Perspective of Local Returnees","authors":"Mirit Haybi Barak, Yael Grinshtain","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70068","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70068","url":null,"abstract":"Rural and peripheral settings are diverse and context‐dependent, yet many are shaped by varying combinations of geographic distance, population size, access to resources and opportunities, and forms of social and community connectedness. These characteristics vary across contexts and may be associated with different configurations of disadvantage, marginalization, and place‐based strengths. The current study focused on the Israeli Northern periphery, aiming to trace the journeys of those born in the periphery as they move away and then return. It explores their perspectives on living outside the periphery, their reasons for returning, and their experiences upon returning. This study employs phenomenological methods and was conducted through semi‐structured interviews with 17 local returnees. A thematic analysis identified three main categories that characterize the locals' journey outside the periphery and back: outside the periphery is perceived as both fulfilling and allowing for a recognition of the strengths of the periphery; motivations for returning, which include economic and familial considerations on a practical level, and a sense of responsibility and recognition of local needs on a symbolic level; and life in the periphery after returning, which encompasses judgments from others about their return, the ambivalence of profit versus compromise, and local agency through action, entrepreneurship, and personal development. This complex journey is analyzed through the theoretical framework of Social Identity in relation to social action and collective action, highlighting the interviewees' sense of belonging and love for their community and its residents.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148946716","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Mapping the Gender Gap in Italian Agriculture From Plains to Peaks, 2012 and 2021 绘制意大利农业从平原到高峰的性别差距，2012年和2021年

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-09-12 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70065

Rina Vuciterna, Stefano Corsi

{"title":"Mapping the Gender Gap in Italian Agriculture From Plains to Peaks, 2012 and 2021","authors":"Rina Vuciterna, Stefano Corsi","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70065","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70065","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines how gender gaps in Italian agriculture changed between 2012 and 2021 and whether those changes differed across plains, hills, and mountains. We argue that gender gaps in agriculture are terrain‐conditioned: the same resources carry different value across ecological zones because physical, infrastructural, and institutional conditions interact with gendered access to land, water, and markets. Using harmonized Italian Farm Accountancy Data Network (FADN) microdata, we estimate design‐weighted indicators in constant 2021 euros for women‐ and men‐managed farms at the national level and across altimetric belts. Both groups underwent a shared process of restructuring—greater organizational formalization, lower reliance on family‐only labor, wider use of rented land, and rising capital intensity—yet these common shifts did not produce a uniform pattern of convergence. Instead, gender differences varied across terrains: women‐managed farms gained operated area in every belt but converted it into revenue and margins unevenly, most visibly in the mountains, where substantial land expansion coincided with only modest income gains and a declining irrigated share. Reading these patterns through feminist rural sociology and feminist political ecology, the paper shows that gender inequality in Italian agriculture is better understood as a terrain‐conditioned outcome of gendered resource access than as a single national divide.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148946720","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Rural Poverty and Social Stigma: Homeless in America's Dairyland 农村贫困与社会耻辱：美国奶牛场的无家可归者

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-09-07 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70067

Erin Gaede

{"title":"Rural Poverty and Social Stigma: Homeless in America's Dairyland","authors":"Erin Gaede","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70067","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70067","url":null,"abstract":"To explain the stigma around homelessness, scholars often focus on its physically visible forms in urban centers. However, in rural contexts, people experiencing homelessness are often unseen: they are doubling up with friends and family, living in vehicles or abandoned buildings, and camping in state parks. As such, rural homelessness is often referred to as “hidden.” This hiddenness makes theories built on physical visibility partial and unable to account for the stigma around homelessness in rural contexts. Based on 6 months of ethnographic fieldwork and 37 in‐depth interviews in five rural counties in Wisconsin, this paper finds that the stigmatization of homelessness in rural areas hinges on its social hypervisibility . The scarcity of social service infrastructure forces people experiencing homelessness to depend on their social ties for support, making their struggles known to others, even when they are not directly observed. S ocial hypervisibility contributes to stigma by hindering opportunities to exit homelessness, including discouraging individuals from seeking help. These findings demonstrate that current policies not only fail to support people experiencing homelessness in rural areas but also exacerbate stigma, thereby intensifying the marginalization of people in poverty.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"51 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148909184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Formal and Informal Support Structures in Rural Military Veteran Entrepreneurship: An Ecological Systems Analysis 农村退伍军人创业的正式和非正式支持结构：一个生态系统分析

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-09-01 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70066

Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao

{"title":"Formal and Informal Support Structures in Rural Military Veteran Entrepreneurship: An Ecological Systems Analysis","authors":"Michael Lotspeich‐Yadao","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70066","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Military veteran entrepreneurship is central to federal transition policy, yet its institutional ecosystem was built for urban, growth‐oriented firms. Designed around formal capital pipelines, credentialing infrastructure, and institutionalized networks, the programmatic model was never built for places where relationships are the primary market infrastructure. What remains unspecified is its failure architecture—how it breaks down, for whom, and why. Drawing on interviews with 27 rural veteran entrepreneurs and 8 ecosystem actors across the Midwest, we apply ecological systems theory as a generative framework across ecological levels, from which we elaborate four mechanisms. Analysis reveals how institutional failures originate and compound across levels; when and why bonding capital substitutes for failed institutional bridging; how surname operates as ascriptive market trust that military mobility disrupts; and how unconditional disability compensation functions as an income floor that preserves entrepreneurial entry. While formal infrastructure shapes who can begin, relational and ascriptive resources increasingly determine who succeeds. A designed system can be redesigned once its failure points are specified—and that redesign requires treating bonding capital, ascriptive trust, and unconditional income floors as structural features of rural veteran entrepreneurship rather than individual workarounds.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"142 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148899639","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Labor Force Nonparticipation in Rural and Urban America: An Examination of Prime‐Working‐Age Men and Women, 2000–2024 美国农村和城市劳动力不参与：2000-2024年主要工作年龄男性和女性的考察

IF 2.3 3区社会学

RURAL SOCIOLOGY Pub Date : 2026-08-21 DOI: 10.1111/ruso.70062

Tim Slack, Arijita Pal, Heather M. Rackin

{"title":"Labor Force Nonparticipation in Rural and Urban America: An Examination of Prime‐Working‐Age Men and Women, 2000–2024","authors":"Tim Slack, Arijita Pal, Heather M. Rackin","doi":"10.1111/ruso.70062","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/ruso.70062","url":null,"abstract":"Labor force participation is pivotal for the economic health of individuals, families, communities, and the nation. Conversely, labor force nonparticipation represents a major challenge to economic vitality. In this study, we investigate temporal trends for those not in the labor force (NILF) among prime‐working‐age (25–54) men and women during the first quarter of the 21st century, with a focus on differences between rural and urban residents. We also seek to establish whether and how the demographic, educational, and health profiles of the population account for such trends. Drawing on data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplement from 2000 to 2024, we estimate a series of sex‐specific linear probability models predicting the probability that an individual is NILF as a function of our explanatory variables and controls. The analysis reveals two broad findings. First, among prime‐working‐age men, the probability of NILF is consistently higher in rural areas and the gap is growing. Two factors are associated with a substantial share of this gap, though they do not fully attenuate it: lower education and poorer health in rural areas. Second, among prime‐working‐age women, the probability of labor force nonparticipation is initially similar in rural and urban contexts, before a higher probability of NILF emerges in rural areas during the final decade. After controlling for other factors, however, the trend shifts to higher initial probabilities of NILF in urban areas and toward residential convergence over time. Two factors are associated with this shift: lower education and poorer health in rural areas. These trends hold critical implications for rural wellbeing in the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":47924,"journal":{"name":"RURAL SOCIOLOGY","volume":"46 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2026-08-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148767964","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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