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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

...no one desperate enough to take the job.8Ibid. Resistance to the whiskey tax politicized and united many local communities in ways that no other issue had before. Even as Secretary...

Mapping Souths

...closely sealed off from the North geographically, nor a moral unity. It is not a country at all, but a battle slogan.2Karl Marx, "The Civil War in the United States,"...

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...the 1974 Wales Miners' Strike, part of a series of national mining strikes across the United Kingdom. When Gaventa returned to the United States, sociologist Helen Lewis invited him to show the...

Brushes with War

...in a darkened polar landscape. "As the ice grips the SS United States, and by proxy the nation, the auroras snake across the Arctic winter sky like a grim warning...

The Liminal Site

...and neighborhood and second-growth woods that seem much older. More: Red Mountain is almost the last ridge of the great Appalachians running nearly the length of the eastern United States....