She writes about the relationship of people to their rural and environmental surroundings, with the politics of justice weaving a common thread across her work. She’s worked on designing participatory solutions to water pollution by drawing on the diverse knowledge of experts in many forms: local, governmental, and scholarly. Her recent scholarship on large hog confinements documents the use of legal strategies by farmer-investors to sidestep democratic processes in siting facilities. Loka’s co-editing a Special Issue in the Journal of Rural Studieson the rural as a dimension of environmental injustice. She currently is writing a book that documents the alternative politics of rural protest that affront conjoined corporate and state environmental injustices.