Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice
...for a list of previous Southern Spaces publications that exemplify the range of interdisciplinary work we seek. As part of this series, we will publish peer-reviewed digital projects. Please contact us if...
Birdhouses
Introduction When we examine a nest, we place ourselves at the origin of confidence in the world. —Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space1Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space (New York:...
The Liminal Site
...as well, considering Birmingham, if at all, as a kind of poor man's or proto-Atlanta, itself a kind of poor man's or proto-Los Angeles of simulacra and abstract capitalist space.16Edward...
Single Centers of Creation?
...2009. About the Author Nancy Lowe is a naturalist artist and scientific illustrator based in Atlanta, Georgia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of Art Institute...
Elegy for the Native Guards
...black phalanx. What is monument to their legacy? All the grave markers, all the crude headstones— water—lost. Now fish dart among their bones, and we listen for what the waves...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...next day. On Aventine, like any unfamiliar neighborhood a rebel tried to enlist, the call to insurrection demanded slaves risk all on the word of a stranger and understandably left...
Keywords for Southern Studies: An Introduction
...US South is neither solid nor exceptional. It lacks an essence (and therefore cannot be known in essentialist terms), a polity, and clearly defined boundaries. Such, at least, are some...
The Bulletin—July 24, 2012
...rising global temperatures may have contributed to the increased frequency of droughts in the last few years. Environmentalist Bill McKibben recently penned an essay in the magazine Rolling Stone which...
Call for Proposals for the First Annual Atlanta Studies Symposium
...Atlanta are welcome, but priority will be given to papers that relate in some way to the themes listed above. Preference will also be given to proposals for fully constituted...
Place and Pluralism: The “Georgia Harmonies” Traveling Exhibition
...Sacred Harp singers like myself, thirty or so listeners from the Calhoun area, and three participants in a related predominantly-black shape-note singing community who had long heard of Sacred Harp...