In reflecting on the last two decades of publications by Australian rural studies scholars in three major disciplinary journals, this article argues that the field of Australian rural sociology has failed to address racial inequality and class difference. While we note a burgeoning of feminist rural research challenging the historical emphasis on the white male farmer, this too has tended to occlude class and race, as is demonstrated in our analysis of the national ‘Invisible Farmer’ project. Accordingly, we point to a need to bring anti-racist work and scholarship to bear on our subdiscipline. In particular, we call for Australian rural studies scholars to engage with Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander scholarship to interrogate whiteness as a category of difference and to open a discussion about relinquishing settler power, including in the academy. We emphasise the need for actions to understand and challenge the continuing dominance and privilege of whiteness and the fundamentally classed colonial project in Australian rural studies.

在回顾澳大利亚农村研究学者在最近的三本主要学科期刊上发表的最近二十年中，本文认为，澳大利亚农村社会学领域未能解决种族不平等和阶级差异。尽管我们注意到女权主义农村研究的兴起正在挑战历史上对白人男性农民的重视，但正如我们对国家“看不见的农民”项目的分析所证明的那样，这也倾向于阻碍阶级和种族。因此，我们指出有必要将反种族主义的工作和学术带入我们的子学科。特别是，我们呼吁澳大利亚农村研究学者与原住民和/或托雷斯海峡岛民奖学金一起，探讨将白人视为差异的一个类别，并就放弃移民权利的问题展开讨论，包括在学院里。我们强调需要采取行动来理解和挑战白人的持续统治和特权以及澳大利亚乡村研究中的基本殖民主义项目。