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Southern Spaces
A journal about real and imagined spaces and places of the US South and their global connections

Mother Jones: Back in Alabama

...by women and children. A giant, inflatable Mother Jones stands at a rally for union members, Brookwood, Alabama, August 4, 2021. Photograph by and courtesy of William Thornton, AL.com. Truth...

Preserving the Memory of Ybor City, Florida

Introduction Founded by cigar manufacturers V.M. Ybor and Ignacio Haya in 1885, Ybor City, Florida, became the "Cigar Capital of the World" in the early twentieth century. Despite efforts by...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...to Use Covid-19 Relief Funds to Build Prisons," CNN, October 1, 2021, https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/01/politics/alabama-covid-relief-prison-bills-signed-governor-kay-ivey/index.html. Despite the uneven distribution of aid, many people, specifically children and elders, moved above the poverty line...

Draining Paradise: A Tour of Salt Creek in St. Petersburg, Florida

...Neville and Ashlee Cunsolo. "Hope and Mourning in the Anthropocene: Understanding Ecological Grief," The Conversation, April 4, 2018, https://theconversation.com/hope-and-mourning-in-the-anthropocene-understanding-ecological-grief-88630; Gren Albrecht et al., "Solastagia: The Distress Caused by Environmental Change,"...