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

Keep Your Eye upon the Scale

...American political sociologist John Gaventa initiated a videotape conversation between rank and file coal miners in South Wales and Appalachia. Attending Oxford University with filmmaker Richard Greatrex, Gaventa initially documented...

No Place

...You Think Of?" is also available on Southern Spaces. Cover Image Attribution Abandoned bridge over the Cahaba River, January 10, 2021. Photograph by Flickr user MK Hardy. Creative Commons license...

The Bulletin—February 11, 2013

...installed during these recent repairs detected a power anomaly and triggered the shutdown. Entergy continues to investigate the "root cause" of the incident. Meanwhile, Sara Kugler noted on MSNBC because the Superdome...

Submission Process

...research and quality of writing? Would the piece require a substantial amount of editing/reworking? Fit for the journal: Does the piece use a spatial approach to its subject? Does it...

The Bulletin—March 5, 2013

...case is groundbreaking because the mother did not undergo prenatal care to prevent her baby’s infection. The baby, now two-and-a-half years old, received antiretroviral drugs thirty hours after birth. The...

Knoxville, Tennessee images

Knoxville, Tennessee: The Tennessee River from the South Gay Street Bridge Pedestrian A pedestrian trudges up West Main Street toward the Knox County Courthouse. Published: 28 February 2007 © 2007...

Old Elementary

...all but vagrant pigeons. The utter childlessness of the playground fronts it, lifeless swings, foot worn furrows beneath, once slick from use, almost closed over, a cicatrix of dandelions and...

Vestibule

...love. I don't just want to thank her for giving me the trump card — "house of worship" — I hold in every stupid party game that begins, "Where's the...

Putting up Beans

...don’t wear aprons much anymore.   Published in Off Season City Pipe: Work (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2005). Published: 14 October 2010 © 2010 Allison Hedge Coke and Southern Spaces...

Ten Dollars and a Bus Ticket

...30,896 prisoners, and spent $15,233 to house an inmate for a year, but the fate of those leaving the prison system was pretty much left to chance. A more compassionate...