Southern Spaces is a peer-reviewed

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 open-access academic journal

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 that publishes articles, photo essays and images, presentations, and short videos about real and imagined spaces and places of the Southern United States

Southern United States

The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive area in the southeastern and south-central United States...

 and their connections to the wider world. The intended audience includes researchers and teachers, students in and out of classrooms, library patrons, and the general public.

A multimedia

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 digital publication

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, Southern Spaces encourages the representation and analysis of many souths and southern regions, the critical scrutiny of any monolithic "South," the discovery of time-space

Spacetime

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 relationships, and the mapping of expressive cultural forms associated with place. The journal covers areas such as geography

Geography

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, southern studies, regional studies

Area studies

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, women's studies

Women's studies

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, queer studies

Queer studies

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, public health

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, and African American

African American studies

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, Native American

Native American Studies

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, and American studies

American studies

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Southern Spaces is published by the Robert W. Woodruff Library of Emory University

Emory University

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External links

• Review
• Sarah Toton and Katherine Skinner. "A Space of Our Own: Bridging New Media and Traditional Scholarship with Southern Spaces in the Classroom" Journal of Online Teaching and Learning Fall 2006.