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Acknowledgments ix

1 Geographies of Citizenship, Equity, Opportunity, and Choice 1

Karen R. Foster & Jennifer Jarman

 

 

I The Right to Rural Education

2 The Right to Language in Rural Nova Scotia, Canada 19

Katie K. MacLeod

3 Experiencing an Active Citizenship 35

Democratic and Inclusive Practices in Three Rural Secondary Schools in Spain

Laura Domingo-Penafiel, Laura Farre-Riera & Nuria Simo-Gil

4 Hallway Pedagogy and Resource Loss 51

Countering Fake News in Rural Canadian Schools

Ario Seto

 

 

II The Right to Rural Livelihoods

5 Stemming the Tide 71

Youth Entrepreneurial Citizenship in Rural Nova Scotia, Canada

Gregory R. L. Hadley

6 Dispossession, Environmental Degradation, and the Right to Be Rural 91

The Case of Small-Scale Fishers in Chilika Lagoon, India

Pallavi V. Das

 

 

III The Right to Rural Health

7 Reproducing the Rural Citizen 107

Barriers to Rural Birthing and Maternity Care in Canada

Sarah Rudrum, Lesley Frank & Kayla McCarney

8 Rural Food 123

Rights and Remedies for Older Persons in Canada

Kathleen Kevany & Al Lauzon

9 The Multifaceted Sense of Belonging 141

Discursive Conceptions of Home by Third Age Residents in Rural Finland

Katja Rinne-Koski & Sulevi Riukulehto

 

 

IV The Right to Rural Representation

10 Citizens or Individuals? 159

Patterns of Local Civic Engagement of Young University Graduates Living in Rural Areas in Poland

Ilona Matysiak

11 Beyond the “Rural Problem” 177

Comparing Urban and Rural Political Citizenship, Values, and Practices in Atlantic Canada

Rachel McLay & Howard Ramos

12 Defining Indigenous Citizenship 193

Free, Prior, and Informed Consent (FPIC), the Right to Self-Determination, and Canadian Citizenship

Satenia Zimmermann, Sara Teitelbaum, Jennifer Jarman

& M. A. (Peggy) Smith

 

 

V The Right to Rural Policy

13 Density Matters and Distance Matters 211

Canadian Public Policy from a Rural Perspective

Ray D. Bollman

14 Rural Citizenship Under the Impact of Rural Transformation 237

Unpacking the Role of Spatial Planning in Protecting the Right to Be Rural in Zimbabwe

Jeofrey Matai & Innocent Chirisa

15 The Right to Multiple Futures in the Shadow of Canada’s Smart City Movement 253

S. Ashleigh Weeden

16 “What Makes Our Land Illegal?” 271

Regularization and the Urbanization of Rural Land in Ethiopia

Eshetayehu Kinfu & Logan Cochrane

 

 

VI The Right to Rural Mobility

17 Exploring Rural Citizenship through Displacement 289

An Analysis of Citizenship in the Context of Refugee Resettlement and Integration in Rural Canada

Stacey Haugen

18 Local Politics of Inclusion and Exclusion 303

Exploring the Situation of Migrant Labourers and their Descendants after Land Reform in Rural Zimbabwe

Clement Chipenda & Tom Tom

19 Rural Redlining in the Danish Housing Market 321

Toward an Analytical Framework for Understanding Spatial (In)justice

Jens Kaae Fisker, Annette Aagaard Thuesen

& Egon Bjornshave Noe

20 What’s Next for the Right to Be Rural? 339

Jennifer Jarman & Karen R. Foster

 

Contributors 351

Index 365"

 

 

Description

In this collection, researchers analyze rural societies, economies, and governance in North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia through the lens of rights and citizenship, across such varied domains as education, employment, and health. The provocative concept of a “right to be rural” illuminates not only the challenges faced by rural communities worldwide, but also underappreciated facets of community resilience in the face of these challenges. The book’s central question—“is there a right to be rural?”—offers insights into how these communities are created, maintained, and challenged. The authors illustrate that citizenship rights have a spatial character, and that this observation is critical to studying and understanding rural life in the twenty-first century. Scholars and policymakers concerned with the health and well-being of rural communities will be interested in this book.

Contributors: Ray Bollman, Clement Chipenda, Innocent Chirisa, Logan Cochrane, Pallavi Das, Laura Domingo-Peñafiel, Laura Farré-Riera, Jens Kaae Fisker, Karen R. Foster, Lesley Frank, Greg Hadley, Stacey Haugen, Jennifer Jarman, Kathleen Kevany, Eshetayehu Kinfu, Al Lauzon, Katie MacLeod, Jeofrey Matai, Ilona Matysiak, Kayla McCarney, Rachel McLay, Egon Noe, Howard Ramos, Katja Rinne-Koski, Sulevi Riukulehto, Sarah Rudrum, Ario Seto, Nuria Simo-Gil, Peggy Smith, Sara Teitelbaum, Annette Aagaard Thuesen, Tom Tom, Ashleigh Weeden, Satenia Zimmermann