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

Writing Appalachia

...media. These forces have virtually obliterated traditional agrarian Appalachia, although an interest in local foods in the region, part and parcel of a larger local foods movement in the United...

A Green Democratic Revolution

...the necessity to move to renewable energy, the path to follow is far from agreed upon. Even among progressive parties no consensus exists about the strategy to follow.2For a thoughtful...

Bodies and Souls

...rural clinics affected everyday lives. Top, a patient has her blood pressure taken at the clinic in Jonestown, Bodies and Souls, 2005. Bottom, Sister Manette with a patient, Bodies and Souls,...

Geographies of Gardening: Ryan Gainey Discusses Figs

...video, Gainey’s gardens become fields of memory. He participates in seed saving movements that value heirloom plants, both botanically and culturally. He sees plants as part of larger historical narratives,...

End of the Pandemic? A Grassroots Perspective

...COVID-19 Pandemic," Georgetown University Beeckcenter, October 4, 2022, https://beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/four-key-takeaways-from-mutual-aid-organizing-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/. Georgia has similar organizations. Community Movement Builders developed stabilization programs that include rent/mortgage payments as well as groceries in their efforts...