The Unsettling of Appalachia: Identity, Activism, and Appalachian Consciousness in Conversation with S-Town
Appalachia is a region too politicized to romanticize. Though the region could definitely use some romance.
Year: 2017
Piercings at Peace: Death and the Body in S-Town
S-Town, even as it relies on new forms of technology and media distribution to create a new genre of podcast storytelling, is part of a long and complex anthropological tradition.
Postcards from Bibb County, Alabama, or Some Thoughts on NPR’s S-Town Podcast
S-Town is much more than a mystery narrative; it is all at once a biography, soap opera, eulogy, and history.
A Man of Impeachable Character: A Roundtable with the Editors
What we have now is not a president with scandals, but a scandalous presidency. We do not wonder that the president is now personally under investigation, but only how it could have taken so long.
Reading Blackhawk At Night and the Promise of the New Borderlands History: A Review Essay of Violence over the Land and The Comanche Empire
In revisiting approaches to Native American agency, suffering, aggression and violence, Ned Blackhawk’s Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West and Pekka Hämäläinen’s The Comanche Empire have provided readers and historians with new critical windows into the long Amerindian past, one inflected by a succession of transformative encounters with outsiders.
Ferray vs. Pompeyo the Free Black: Fear and Black Masculinity in the Era of the Haitian Revolution
In this climate of hostility towards assertive black men, the court would have viewed all of Pompeyo’s actions as crimes against the natural order of society, rather than merely a dispute between two individuals.
Brexit, Uncertainty, and Encounter: An Interview with Corrymeela Community’s Executive Director Colin Craig
As the generation that built the system that promoted peace in Europe fades away, we find ourselves struggling to maintain those institutions. This is in large part because we forget too easily that their original and true purpose was not the sacrifice of national identity at the altar of economic integration. The purpose was peace.
The Handmaid’s Tale: America in the Age of Pence
The emphasis on the purity of women and an obsession with controlling sexual urges that creates ideas like the Billy Graham Rule are apparent in The Handmaid’s Tale, where the agency of the Handmaids has been stripped from them and their sanctioned sexual encounters are limited ritualized sessions in order to produce children.
Taking Depression on, Digitally: An Interview with the DE-press-ON App’s Creator Colin Radcliffe
One rainy night in 2016, shortly after being diagnosed with clinical depression and anxiety, Colin Radcliffe walked onto a bridge intending toContinue Reading
The Olmstead Decision and Community Mental Health
Twenty-two years ago Atlanta Legal Aid sued the state of Georgia on behalf of two women with intellectual and mental health disabilities, setting into motion a process that resulted in one of the most important human rights mandates of the modern era of mental health treatment.
The Activist History Review 