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

Whiskey and Geography

...Newfound Sovereignty (New York: Scribner, 2006), 66. With this kind of consumption pattern among the English, they had little room to ridicule people of the western mountains as habitual drunks....

The Joneses: Home Made in Mississippi

...with the cost of flights and the initial recovery period in a hotel, it was cheaper to do so there than in the United States. Hearing her story, Ash insisted...

The Medicalized Border and the Politics of Exclusion

...stereotypes than medical knowledge. Irish immigrants brought cholera, while Jewish ones infected New Yorkers with typhus. Riots erupted as a result of perceptions that Chinese men spread venereal disease. These...

A Conversation with Digital Historians

...of the same tools stay in its toolbox, but these digital methods add a new dimension to what our goals have always been. Digital History and the "Virginia Diaspora" What...

Academic Capitalism and Regional Planning: A Review of Shadows of a Sunbelt City

...not Gone?” Northwestern Institute for Policy Research, accessed October 23, 2017. http://www.ipr.northwestern.edu/about/news/2014/IPR-research-Great-Recession-unemployment-foreclosures-safety-net-fertility-public-opinion.html.  Foreclosures and underwater mortgages decimated real estate markets from Los Angeles to Orlando. Housing starts evaporated. Underfunded and...

The Liminal Site

...(New York: Vintage, 2003), 135. Yi-fu Tuan phrases the balance more elegantly: "Place is security, space is freedom: we are attached to the one and long for the other."6Yi-Fu Tuan,...