{"title":"Someone Else's “Country”: American Roots Music and Rural Identity in Sardinia, Italy","authors":"Kristina M. Jacobsen","doi":"10.1002/nad.12121","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines rural North American expressive culture vis-a-vis country music and language reclamation within minoritarian language contexts. Drawing on my previous ethnographic fieldwork performing and learning Navajo on the Navajo Nation, I explore how rural identities circulate transnationally in and through spoken and sung performances of country “roots” music in my more recent field site of Sardinia, Italy. In both Sardinia and on the Navajo Nation, this musical genre acts as a medium for heritage language reclamation and consequently allows for reconnection to a rural sense of self.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"82-85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12121","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44851753","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amenity Migration Revisited","authors":"Tom Özden-Schilling","doi":"10.1002/nad.12102","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12102","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The dismantling of government research throughout rural North America has altered the ways environmental scientists understand their ties to rural places like northwest British Columbia. As growing numbers of researchers have leveraged their professional mobility to move to small mountain towns and other rural locales—a process known as “amenity migration”—many have increasingly described their role in these transformations through idioms of personal commitment and individual expertise. At times, these articulations have overshadowed other migratory strategies enacted in response to the neoliberalization of resource extraction and environmental governance in the region, including those of First Nations technicians and blue collar workers in extractive industries. The kinds of jobs that draw experts to live and work in places like northwest British Columbia have shifted away from full-time government positions into consulting and contract work. In the process, researchers’ growing tendency to present their movements as intentional processes has obscured the ways neoliberal reform redistributes compulsion and choice among residents of the new rural north.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"131-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47279477","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sweet Knoll","authors":"Kathryn M. Dudley","doi":"10.1002/nad.12110","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12110","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Rurality in the Anthropocene is a tactical mode of existence in imperiled ecologies. Neither a strategic enterprise nor an identity politics, it is rooted in geopolitical histories and a congeries of feral ontologies: ways of being, communicating, and understanding in multispecies worlds that are rife with conflict, struggles for survival, and unexpected moments of grace. As a relational construct, rurality indexes the intersubjective copresence of more-than-human beings who materially and affectively sustain futurity in landscapes ravaged by extractive industries and climate change. This essay, based on interviews with public land ranchers in Oregon, conjures rurality as an ethnographic encounter in three registers involving wild horses, small-scale ranchers, and a bewitched anthropologist.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"143-145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12110","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48576690","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Linking Rural and Urban Circular Economies through Reuse and Repair","authors":"Brieanne Berry, Cindy Isenhour","doi":"10.1002/nad.12103","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12103","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Increasing resource scarcity and what has been called “the end of cheap nature” are prompting policymakers and scholars to foster more circular economies to reduce waste and lengthen the lifespan of material goods. Our essay critically examines the political and economic relationships between urban and rural geographies in the context of secondhand economies. Practices of bartering, swapping, selling, and repairing used goods have long been important to rural people and places, but the increasing commodification of discards risks upending rural livelihoods and ways of being as goods move toward urban centers. We explore the relationship between rural and urban reuse economies and suggest how future scholars of rural North America might contribute to strengthening and supporting localized reuse practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"112-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12103","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49463636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"#WeNeedANewCounty: Enduring Division and Conquest in the Indigenous Southwest","authors":"Teresa Montoya","doi":"10.1002/nad.12116","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12116","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Pernicious threats to tribal sovereignty and Indigenous empowerment at local scales of governance have often evaded the scrutiny applied to other formations of the settler state. To illustrate this point, I draw on recent attempts to divide and redistrict county jurisdictions that overlap with the Navajo Nation. I argue that such efforts become a pretext to treat Navajo citizens as an economic liability and to exclude them from upwardly mobile settler polities in historically racialized ways. As a result, rural politics becomes a crucial site for understanding the contemporary struggles of the 573 federally recognized tribal nations in the United States. I conclude that considerations of rurality must be attentive to how histories of dispossession continue to surface in and permeate the present political moment.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"75-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12116","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42995504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sanctuary-Making as Rural Political Action","authors":"Elan Abrell","doi":"10.1002/nad.12107","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12107","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay compares different sanctuary-making projects in North America, including animal sanctuaries and sanctuary communities for undocumented immigrants, to examine how they may contribute to better rural futures. Specifically, it argues that sanctuary as a simultaneously spatial and ideological mode of being could provide the basis for a broader counterhegemonic challenge to violent practices of exploitation targeted at a range of different others.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"109-111"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12107","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49648500","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Manufacturing Home","authors":"Nicholas Shapiro","doi":"10.1002/nad.12113","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12113","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Making the colonist’s home mobile, disregarding local ecologies and building practices, is foundational to the settler-colonial project. This article tracks the mobile home from its role as a key architecture of occupation and settlement by the British Empire to being a superlative embodiment of hydrocarbon-infused commodities and homes after World War II. As the violences of mobile home ownership are coterminous with the violences of settler colonialism, an equitable vision of affordable housing cannot stop at achieving racial parity for toxic/classist loans (for often toxic homes) or greater protections for colonial land tenure.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"121-124"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12113","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46787734","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Grid Country","authors":"Canay Özden-Schilling","doi":"10.1002/nad.12098","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>What appears today to rural Americans as the vector of their difference besides the mainstays of farming and ranching? Through what optics do we see our rural and urban senses of belonging? I argue that electric grids provide one answer. Across the contiguous United States, there are groups of rural and suburban citizens who organize against the expansion of electricity's transmission infrastructure, claiming that they are unjustly suffering the consequences of electric grids’ city-based remote governance. Grid expansion in the countryside might mean property lost to eminent domain and subpar conditions for farming, consequences that rarely factor into projects that overwhelmingly prioritize meeting ever-growing electricity demand in cities. The unevenness in the governance of our shared grids, and by extension our public infrastructures, prompts citizen reflection on their senses of rural, suburban, and urban belonging. Attending to infrastructures as milieus of emergent political consciousness thus provides an opportunity to understand rural and suburban politics through a wider optic than the “red versus blue” narrative by which politics in the United States is so often understood.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"118-120"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47138382","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Rural Mobilities: Migrant Workers in Manitoba","authors":"Catherine Bryan","doi":"10.1002/nad.12112","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12112","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in rural Manitoba, this essay challenges notions of rural mobilities as either outward or novel. Looking back to Canadian histories of colonization, the essay calls for a view of rural mobilities as a continuous and consistent modality of capital accumulation and state formation.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"79-81"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12112","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46031670","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Expanse","authors":"Kristen Simmons","doi":"10.1002/nad.12120","DOIUrl":"10.1002/nad.12120","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The federal government owns more land in Nevada than any other state. While the acquisition of land as territory is central to the project of settler colonialism, this essay expands the frame by considering the atmospherics of rural America through an indigenous analytic. Reflecting on aboveground atomic testing, the growth of Air Force bases, and conservation imaginaries, the essay examines the work that goes into producing emptiness and what the dream of the expanse allows.</p>","PeriodicalId":93014,"journal":{"name":"Journal for the anthropology of North America","volume":"22 2","pages":"103-105"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1002/nad.12120","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46404778","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}