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

Mountaintop Removal in Central Appalachia

...the fringes of the Edwight Mountaintop Removal site, Raleigh County, West Virgina, 2008. In the Appalachian coalfields, the majority of land is owned by corporate interests based outside of the...

Besieged Terrain

...The technique destroys forests, introduces heavy metals into drinking water, vastly increases erosion and flooding, and reduces the number of many species of birds, especially wood warblers, and other rare...

Sài Gòn to Nashville: A Refugee Journey

...that the people who sold him the tickets were scammers. The boat was over-crowded and in a dangerously poor condition. The deck began filling with Mekong water. Everyone screamed in...

Encountering COVID

...was no help. And the state system was not equipped to handle the massive number of unemployment insurance claims. Before COVID, we usually had about 800 or so claims a...