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Rurality and Crises of Democracy: What Can Rural Sociology Offer the Present Moment? by Schafft, Kai A.

“…This article discusses the growing political divide in the United States and how ideological polarization has increasingly assumed spatial dimensions, as rural…”
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The Relationship between Marcellus Shale Gas Development in Pennsylvania and Local Perceptions of Risk and Opportunity by Schafft, Kai A., Borlu, Yetkin, Glenna, Leland

“…Recent advances in gas and oil drilling technology have led to dramatic boomtown development in many rural areas that have endured extended periods of economic…”
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Opportunity, Ambivalence, and Youth Perspectives on Community Change in Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region by Schafft, Kai A., Biddle, Catharine

“…Across vast swaths of mostly rural Pennsylvania, dramatic social, economic, and environmental transformations have occurred in the last five years as these…”
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Reconceptualizing rapid energy resource development and its impacts: Thinking regionally, spatially and intersectionally by Schafft, Kai A., Brasier, Kathryn, Hesse, Arielle

“…Boomtown development refers to rapid economic and demographic change typically associated with energy development and natural resource extraction…”
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Race, Ethnicity, and Twenty‐First Century Rural Sociological Imaginings: A Special Issue Introduction by Carrillo, Ian, Quisumbing King, Katrina, Schafft, Kai A.

“…This article, which also serves as the introduction for this special guest‐edited issue, examines the history of Rural Sociology's scholarly engagement with…”
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Educational Sorting and Residential Aspirations Among Rural High School Students: What Are the Contributions of Schools and Educators to Rural Brain Drain? by Petrin, Robert A., Schafft, Kai A., Meece, Judith L.

“…An extended body of research has documented the outmigration of the "best and brightest" youth from rural areas. Some of this scholarship has suggested that…”
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Turning Their Back on Kids: Inclusions, Exclusions, and the Contradictions of Schooling in Gentrifying Rural Communities by SHERMAN, JENNIFER, SCHAFFT, KAI A.

“…In this ethnographic case study of amenity-driven rural development, we illustrate how the school as a local institution can provide social, cultural, and…”
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"This Is a Good Neighborhood. This Ain't No Pittsburgh!": Conflicting Narratives of Opioid Misuse within Rural School Districts and Communities by Burfoot-Rochford, Ian, Schafft, Kai A

“…Purpose: This study examines the local and institutional factors that shape how educators and educational leaders in western Pennsylvania have understood and…”
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Roma political agency and spaces of social inclusion and exclusion: the contradictions of Roma self-governance amidst the rise of Hungary's radical right by Schafft, Kai A., Ferkovics, Roland

“…This paper examines the perspectives of local Roma leaders regarding the ongoing impacts, contradictions and civic outcomes of Hungary's 1993 Act 77 on the…”
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A "Resource Curse" for Education?: Deepening Education Disparities in Pennsylvania's Shale Gas Boomtowns by Kelly, Matthew Gardner, Schafft, Kai A.

“…In Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale region, the recent shale gas boom profoundly reshaped communities, local institutions, and living circumstances for many…”
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School Choice, Racial Segregation, and Poverty Concentration: Evidence From Pennsylvania Charter School Transfers by Kotok, Stephen, Frankenberg, Erica, Schafft, Kai A., Mann, Bryan A., Fuller, Edward J.

“…This article examines how student movements between traditional public schools (TPSs) and charters—both brick and mortar and cyber—may be associated with both…”
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Local Impacts of Unconventional Gas Development within Pennsylvania's Marcellus Shale Region: Gauging Boomtown Development through the Perspectives of Educational Administrators by Schafft, Kai A., Glenna, Leland L., Green, Brandn, Borlu, Yetkin

“…Using survey and interview data gathered from educators and educational administrators, we investigate school and community impacts of unconventional gas…”
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Rural Education As Rural Development: Understanding the Rural School-Community Well-Being Linkage in a 21st-Century Policy Context by Schafft, Kai A.

“…Despite the significant proportions of rural Americans, schools, and public school students situated in the geographic peripheries of an increasingly…”
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Exploring school choice and the consequences for student racial segregation within Pennsylvania’s charter school transfers by Frankenberg, Erica, Kotok, Stephen, Schafft, Kai, Mann, Bryan

“…Using individual-level student data from Pennsylvania, this study explores the extent to which charter school racial composition may be an important factor in…”
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Busted amidst the Boom: The Creation of New Insecurities and Inequalities within Pennsylvania's Shale Gas Boomtowns by Schafft, Kai A., McHenry‐Sorber, Erin, Hall, Daniella, Burfoot‐Rochford, Ian

“…In the middle of the first decade of this century new technological innovations enabled the extraction of natural gas through the use of hydraulic fracturing…”
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Mobilities, Fixities and Stabilities in Rural Pennsylvania's Natural Gas Boomtowns: Re‐Conceptualising Boomtown Development Through a Mobilities Lens by Burfoot‐Rochford, Ian, Schafft, Kai A.

“…The mobilities ‘turn’ within human geography and the social sciences has drawn attention to the ways in which social connections and interactions variously…”
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'Make My Day, Shoot a Teacher': tactics of inclusion and exclusion, and the contestation of community in a rural school-community conflict by McHenry-Sorber, Erin, Schafft, Kai A.

“…Far from being the harmonious and homogenous communities of popular imagination, rural communities often are characterised by stark differences in…”
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Taking away David's sling: environmental justice and land-use conflict in extractive resource development by Kennedy, Amanda, Schafft, Kai A., Howard, Tanya M.

“…Exploring cases of gas and coal extraction in Australia and the U.S.A., this paper considers instances in which legal and political frameworks have been used…”
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Social and political correlates of adult and dependent-child COVID-19 vaccination behavior in rural America by Tom Mueller, J., Tickamyer, Ann, Thiede, Brian C., Schafft, Kai, Graefe, Alan

“…This paper describes the individual-level correlates of self and dependent-child COVID-19 vaccination behavior among adults in rural America. We draw on the…”
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Place and Purpose in Public Education: School District Mission Statements and Educational (Dis)Embeddedness by Schafft, Kai A., Biddle, Catharine

“…Local control of schooling has been considered a defining feature of the American school system; however, in the past several decades public schooling has also…”
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