The Liminal Site
...had been experiencing—"on the ground," as it were—for some time. I have invested a significant part of my career arguing for certain shared features of the United States and global...
Beyond Fairyland: Writing and Curating Queer Miami
...journey of Welcome to Fairyland? How long did the book take you to write? Is the finished project what you thought it would be when you started? Couples holding signs...
Three Black Towns: An Excerpt from Black Landscapes Matter
...College of Design. Boone works at the overlap between landscape architecture and environmental justice with specializations in democratic design, digital media, and interpreting cultural landscapes. He serves on the Board...
COVID-19 Vaccine and the Right to Public Health
...in the 1990s, modeled to a significant extent on the 1960s US Civil Rights Movement, demanded the right to healthcare. Black participants in my Brazilian study deployed policy-based attempts to achieve...
Has Historical GIS Arrived?: A Review of Toward Spatial Humanities
Review...
Ecologies of the Sacred: A Review of Valérie Loichot's Water Graves
...signifies for Glissant the whole environment comprising the poem, human and nonhuman animals, vegetation, rocks, lavas, and 'nature' and 'culture.' The latter terms lose meaning since they exist in a...
The "Achilles' Heel" of Jim Crow: A Review of Landscapes of Exclusion
...relatively obscure in proportion to their significance" (ix). One could scarcely imagine a more fitting subject for this series. State parks, O'Brien convincingly shows, became important battlegrounds in the legal...
American Coast, Imperiled Energy: Jason P. Theriot’s American Energy, Imperiled Coast
...over by a nearby drilling operation despite the ecological and cultural changes the growing industry signaled. In the earliest rounds of oil exploration in the 1920s and 1930s, many southern...
"Our Country"—Benjamin E. Wise's William Alexander Percy
...how the circumspect Percy "became quite close," with scandal-plagued British writer Norman Douglas, "as evidenced by the one letter that survives between them—which, significantly, is not in Percy's papers but...
The Supreme Court Is Overturning Brown v. Board of Education
...religious schools are effectively segregated and exclusionary by race. For this reason, Espinoza constitutes a regrettable, and significant, decision in the Supreme Court’s long and certain movement over the last...