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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

...its many endangered riverine habitats. Is a River Alive? follows on Macfarlane’s 2019 bestseller, Underland: A Deep Time Journey, which explores underground worlds as different as the Paris catacombs, Greenland’s...

Mississippi: State of Confession

...Birmingham, Alabama: The Climactic Battle of the Civil Rights Revolution (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2001); Carol Anderson, Eyes Off the Prize: The United Nations and the African American Struggle...

Social Justice Environmentalism

...justice.3Mark Fiege, The Republic of Nature: An Environmental History of the United States (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2012), 320; Robert S. Emmett, Cultivating Environmental Justice: A Literary History of...

Black Markets and the US-Mexico Border

...interesting case of marijuana prohibition, Isaac Campos makes the convincing argument that Mexican elites actually beat the United States to the punch by regulating it first, though typically U.S. politicians,...