Navigating Souths: Transdisciplinary Explorations of a U.S. Region

Scholars in history, literature, and other disciplines have developed an advanced understanding of the U.S. South, but most debates have taken place within specific academic disciplines. Navigating Souths facilitates transdisciplinary conversations about southern studies scholarship and challenges faced by researchers. The fourteen original essays articulate questions about the South's significance and how researchers have responded to these challenges, seeking to reshape historical and cultural conceptualizations of the region.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 30 November 2020
Publisher: University of Georgia Press

The study of the United States South in regional, national, and global contexts is an ongoing intellectual endeavor that has been pursued by scholars across various disciplines for an extended period. Historians, literary scholars, and other experts have gained a deep understanding of the historical, social, and cultural factors that have contributed to the formation and evolution of the South. While these discussions have primarily occurred within individual academic fields, there has been limited engagement between different disciplines.

Navigating Souths aims to broaden these exchanges by fostering transdisciplinary conversations about southern studies scholarship. This collection of fourteen original essays explores the significance of the South as a theoretical and literal home base for social science and humanities researchers. It also examines the challenges faced by scholars who identify as southern studies scholars, as well as those who live and work in the regional South. By highlighting how researchers have responded to these challenges, the book project seeks to redefine the field of southern studies as it is currently practiced by social science and humanities scholars, ultimately reshaping historical and cultural conceptualizations of the region.

Contributors to Navigating Souths include Alix Chapman, Rico D. Chapman, Michele Grigsby Coffey, Kirsten A. Dellinger, Leigh Anne Duck, Gwendolyn Ferreti, Kathryn Green, Robert Greene II, John Hayes, Jeffrey T. Jackson, Anne Lewis, Katie B. McKee, Kathryn Radishofski, Emily Satterwhite, Jodi Skipper, Jon Smith, Melanie Benson Taylor, Annette Trefzer, Daniel Cross Turner, Charles Reagan Wilson.

Weight: 498g
Dimension: 152 x 229 x 23 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780820358772