An Effervescent Guide to Fermented Foods and Beverages from the American South
From beer and kombucha to hot sauce and kimchi, fermented foods and drinks are everywhere. Though it once might have felt like a fleeting trend, fermentation has a long culinary history, especially in the southern United States, where the hotter climate and agricultural tradition of the region helped foster the use of fermentation as a means of ......
[The South] fought, bled, and died in the fiercest battles that won us full access to the ballot," writes Errin Haines, guest editor of our special issue, The Vote. "For me, to be a southerner is to be a voter, and to be a voter is to champion the rights of all Americans." In the spring 2024 issue, we look at the vote-from the groundbreaking ......
In the Black Geographies issue, authors roller skate to claim space and joy, examine the role of the King James Version of the Bible in Black placemaking and meaning-making, mine the pages of literary geographer Gloria Naylor, and more. As guest editor Danielle Purifoy writes, "Black geographies urges us to reflect on, retrieve, and rebuild our ......
In the Spring 2022 Issue, Southern Cultures examines crafts-from the art of repair to living and dyeing in Swananoa, North Carolina, and from Bahamian beekeeping to barbecuing and meatcraft across the region.
Rejecting the well-worn narratives of pity, scorn, othering, and medicalization that exist primarily for the benefit of the non-disabled, disabled people insist on better and richer stories about disability as a way of being and a way of knowing," writes guest editor Charles L. Hughes. "This issue is rooted in a commitment to this call.
Home holds dualities and contradictions: celebration and lament; threat and safety; disaster and sanctuary; stability and mobility; ownership (heirs' property) and displacement (gentrification, climate catastrophes); rootedness and migration; steadiness and instability; happy reunions and complicated returns. In this issue, guest edited by Blair ......
The Inheritance Issue explores what we have inherited, how, and from whom, reflecting on what we bring forward and what we must leave behind; what we have reckoned with and the consequences of failing to reckon. The lived experience of Indigenous people in the American and global Souths is crucial to the issue's reflections on place, identity, and ......
The Moral/Economies issue asks what is ownable, who owns, who owes, who makes, who takes, what is work, what is worth? What is a fair price, and who pays it? Is a given transaction a theft, a trade, a gift? If the arid abstraction of "economics" relentlessly flattens this complexity into two dimensions, the notion of "moral economy" demands, in ......
In more than 60 photographs, the Snapshot: Climate issue presents an on-the-ground look at climate impacts across the South. And in essays and conversations with leading climate educators and advocates including Heather McTeer Toney, James W. C. White, Angel Hsu, and Katharine Hayhoe, the issue examines how climate is "an everything issue.
