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

The Nature of Rights

...for the Rights of Nature, https://www.garn.org/rights-of-nature/, accessed December 11, 2025. [3] Christopher D. Stone, “Should Trees Have Standing? Toward Legal Rights for Natural Objects,” Southern California Law Review 45, no....

Call for Submissions: Spatial Justice

...16, 2011, https://southernspaces.org/2011/back-future-mapping-workers-across-global-south.  Hill, Sarah H. "Cherokee Removal Scenes: Elijay, Georgia, 1838." Southern Spaces, August 23, 2012, https://southernspaces.org/2012/cherokee-removal-scenes-ellijay-georgia-1838.   Kirpalani, Neeta and Emily Jackson. "Birth Right." Southern Spaces, January 12, 2010, https://southernspaces.org/2010/birth-right...

You Can't Eat Coal, and Other Lessons from Appalachian Women's History

...accessed March 8, 2017, https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/11/opinion/sunday/we-need-somebody-spectacular-views-from-trump-country.html; John Saward, "Welcome to Trump County, USA," Vanity Fair, February 24, 2016, accessed March 8, 2017, http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/02/donald-trump-supporters-west-virginia; Larissa MacFarquhar, "In the Heart of Trump Country,"...

Southern Spaces General Call for Submissions

...Lives." Southern Spaces, January 26, 2016. https://southernspaces.org/2016/sayhername-towards-gender-inclusive-movement-black-lives. Flippen, Chenoa. "Diversity and Its Discontents: A Review of Behind the White Picket Fence." Southern Spaces, October 20, 2015. https://southernspaces.org/2015/diversity-and-its-discontents-review-behind-white-picket-fence. Goldstein, Holly Markovitz....

Reckoning with Enslavement

...University, April 18, 2017. Notes and recording in possession of the author. A full recording is available at from Georgetown University at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tO4Xsz36kTU, with Sandra Green Thomas's remarks beginning at...

Psychiatry in the Wake: Racism and the Asylumed South

...Virginia mental institution for Black patients, opened after the Civil War, yields a trove of disturbing records," Washington Post, March 29, 2021, https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/magazine/black-asylum-files-reveal-racism/2021/03/26/ebfb2eda-6d78-11eb-9ead-673168d5b874_story.html. The challenges of the psychiatric archive are...

The US South and the 2008 Election

...ire with his insistence on balanced budgets, and one of his achievements was deregulation, an effort that his Republican successor's expanded greatly. Bill Clinton declared that the era of big...