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

Submission Process

...asked to revise and resubmit work in the internal review stage; it’s fairly rare that a piece is sent straight to peer review. Revise and resubmit isn’t a rejection; it’s...

The Place of Appalachia

...Mitchell explains in The Right to the City: Social Justice and the Fight for Public Space (New York: Guilford Press, 2003), 18: "Idiocy in this sense does not refer to...

The Colonialist's Gaze

Presentation Closer Reading: Three Images from the Presentation Panorama of Armstrong standing at the summit of Signal Hill. Image courtesy of Lanny Thompson, 2017. Standing at the summit of Signal...

Call for Blog Posts: Voting, Politics, and Similar Subjects

...https://southernspaces.org/2019/you-cant-eat-coal-and-other-lessons-appalachian-womens-history/. Voting Rights, June 30, 2013. Cartoon by Mike Luckovich. Republished with permission of Mike Luckovich. Submit all inquiries and materials to Southern Spaces managing editor Madison Elkins at seditor@emory.edu....

Petrochemical America, Petrochemical Addiction

Introduction by Emma Lirette Saltwater Intrusion, Chauvin, Louisiana, 2013. Photograph by Kurt Lirette. Courtesy of photographer. Growing up in Louisiana meant growing up with the men in my family intermittently...

Public Health in the US and Global South

...taken up hookworm and pellagra as challenges. Funding for health reform began to increase after World War I. New Deal spending doubled the number of county health departments, from 396 in...