The theme will be "Rurbanity in Nordic Landscapes" when Nordic Geographers meet in February, 2022, in Joensuu, Finland. Abstracts...

This post is going to seem to some folks like a stretch as far as rural goes.  However, a passage from Anthony Marra's The Tsar of Love ...

I'm devastated by what this multi-part series discloses about crime and justice system deficits in rural Alaska, but I'm so delighte...

Last week, Alaska state representative David Eastman of Wasilla (a suburb of Anchorage, home of Sarah Palin), commented that some women ...

I'm on vacation with spotty internet access and little time to write when I have it.  But the rural headlines are stacking up, so I'...

NPR reported this morning on the federal government's efforts to track down veterans in remote northwestern Alaska, the same day that t...

The Guardian reported this week from Newtok, Alaska , a mostly Yup'ik Eskimo village of about 350, surrounded on three sides by the Ni...

Last month, a student wrote this thoughtful post about the Arctic as rural.  That made me read this NPR story on Arctic Russia a bit more ...

In the last issue of the New York Review of Books , Ian Frazier reviews Subhankar Banerjee’s anthology Arctic Voices: Resistance...

Read the story here from yesterday's New York Times . The dateline is Kivalina, Alaska , population 377 , which is north of the Arcti...