Global Reflections on Positionality in Rural Access to Justice Research [Hardcover]

This book offers a unique look at rural access to justice through a series of personal and professional reflections by leading scholars in the field.

Engaging a position sensibility, it explores how our identities, class backgrounds, and professional privileges shape research and writing in rural places-and how those rural places in turn shape us.

This is an important collection, for while rural justice gaps are well-documented, considerably less has been written about the distinct opportunities that rural communities present for collaborative research, innovation, and policy development. The book offers us an honest, reflexive accounting of what has been done, why, and what's next to dismantle academic barriers and promote meaningful work on rural access to justice.

As a call to still deeper engagement with rurality, this book will inspire readers to consider rural place in their studies of law-and to consider their own place in scholarship on access to justice.

Michele Statzis Associate Professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School and Affiliated Faculty with the
University of Minnesota Law School, USA.
Daniel Newmanis Professor at the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University, UK.

1. Introduction,Rebecca Sandefur (Arizona State University, American Bar Foundation , USA)
2. Claiming the South,Elizabeth Chambliss (University of South Carolina, USA)
3. From the Valleys to the Academy,Daniel Newman (Cardiff University UK)
4. Improving Access...Delivering Justice? Insights from Empirical Legal Research on (Rural) Access to Justice,Leslie S Ferraz (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime)
5. Indigenous Communities and Reparative Reflexivity in Socio-legal Studies,Brieanna Watters (Universlc_