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Research Summary: The Living Room of a Rural Community

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Research Summary: The Living Room of a Rural Community
The University of Guelph is home to a wide diversity of research on rural people, places, and environments. As a leader in rural research, this video series facilitates knowledge sharing across rural Ontario and beyond. This video highlights recent research by Lucas Berek completed in 2025 titled The Living Room of a Rural Community. This thesis examines the actors, processes, and COVID-19 influences shaping economic development in the Town of New Tecum...

Reclaiming the “Right to Be Rural”: New Chapter Explores Community Power in Changing Times

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Reclaiming the “Right to Be Rural”: New Chapter Explores Community Power in Changing Times
A newly published chapter in Critical Futures: Community-Engaged Research in a Time of Social Transformation (University of Toronto Press) invites readers to rethink what it means to live, work, and thrive in rural places today. Written by Sean Markey, Ashleigh Weeden, Ryan Gibson, Greg Halseth, and Laura Ryser, “Community-Engaged Research and the ‘Right to Be Rural’” challenges long-held assumptions that cast rural communities as outdated, declining, or s