Coalfield Generations: Health, Mining, and the Environment
...the miners, then reopen under new corporate settings. These new companies do not rehire the miners who were active under the previous contract. Instead of hiring the local workers who...
On Native Ground: Indigenous Presences and Countercolonial Strategies in Southern Narratives of Captivity, Removal, and Repossession
...in which Kazin never, by "Native," means American Indian writing from any region of the Americas. My new book project, On Native Southern Ground, sets out to demonstrate that the...
Ways of Unseeing: Crowdsourcing the Frame in Roger May's Looking at Appalachia
...of essays entitled Error: Glitch, Noise, and Jam in New Media Cultures (New York: Continuum, 2011), which examines how the concepts of "noise" and "error" structure modes of cultural resistance...
Encountering COVID
...all by myself. Then out of the blue came the idea of Humans of New York. And I thought, "Oh, Brandon Stanton interviewed thousands of people in New York, took...
Taming Southern Waters: Christopher J. Manganiello’s Southern Water, Southern Power
...of modernization in the Savannah River basin as a series of conflicts over water resource development. It is a history of "building new working, living, and leisure environments," (12) of the...
Love and Death in Mississippi
...the need for healthcare providers like my mother remains unbounded. Chronic sickness and death saturate the landscape. Home, July 2018. Collage by Eric Solomon. Creative Commons license CC BY 4.0....
Hurricane Helene Visits Marshall, North Carolina
...Katrina in New Orleans, Hugo in South Carolina, Floyd in Eastern North Carolina, and now, Helene in my backyard. There are similarities between the four. The mud. The displaced buildings...
"Aint that Something?"
...Coal mining, unemployment, drug addiction, and religious fervor dominate the landscape and the culture. It is, in other words, straight-up Appalachia. But as Trampoline embraces its Appalachian-ness, it also questions...
"In the Neighborhood": Towards a Human Geography of US Slave Society
...Thought from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Oxford University Press, 1977). Community, after all, was a key word in the new social history. For revisionist historians "community" signaled a broad...
The Nature of Rights
...image: Coosa riverscape photo copyright A. Odrezin. Used by permission of Coosa Riverkeeper, 2026. [1] Robert Macfarlane, Underland: A Deep Time Journey (New York: W.W. Norton, 2019). [2] Global Alliance...