ABSTRACT
Part of a collection about ‘positionality’ in access to justice research, this personal essay reflects on the role of time in place attachment and, relatedly, in definitions of rurality and access to justice. While most access to justice research defines rurality in socio-spatial terms, by reference to characteristics such as population density and remoteness from population centers, the essay suggests that much of what is distinctive about ‘rural’ access to justice stems from the shared history among people who live in a particular place; thus, rurality is as much an historic category as a geographic one.
Chambliss, Elizabeth, Claiming the South (January 12, 2025), in Claiming the South, in Global Reflections on Positionality in Rural Access to Justice Research (Michele Statz and Daniel Newman, eds, Hart Publishing 2025), https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/global-reflections-on-positionality-in-rural-access-to-justice-research-9781509972821/.
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