Roberto Barrios (SIU): "If You Did Not Grow Up Here, You Cannot Appreciate Living Here": Neoliberalism, Space-time, and Affect in Post-Katrina Recovery Planning. From The New Atlantis, a symposium on place and placelessness in America, including an essay by Ari N. Schulman on GPS and the end of the road, Wilfred M. McClay on the particularities of place, and Brian Brown on the rise of localist politics. From Logos, a special section on The American Road. He only has I-’s for you: Earl Swift on I-80, I-95, and the history of America’s interstate highway system. Calling America: A map on phone zones as alternate states. Here's the post-grad hipster's guide to inhabitable US cities. Whiskey and geography: An excerpt from Spirits of Just Men: Mountaineers, Liquor Bosses, and Lawmen in the Moonshine Capital of the World by Charles Thompson. Chip War on how the West was lost: The American West in flames. Dorchester is South Carolina's abandoned town, settled in 1696, abandoned after the Revolutionary War. Country Gangstaz: Rapidly expanding gangs leave a community awash in guns, drugs, and murder; forget Baltimore and Detroit — welcome to Grant County, Washington. The sex trade in northwest Wisconsin: In a small town with a withering economy, rebellion is choosing college over your job at the X-rated drive-in. The All-American Place: For 400 years, much of what has happened in the country began or ended in a bar. A review of Alaska's Place in the West: From the Last Frontier to the Last Great Wilderness by Roxanne Willis. The introduction to Hawaiian Surfing: Traditions from the Past by John RK Clark. Home Remedy: Small town Albany, Missouri, solves its physician shortage. A review of Remaking the Heartland: Middle America since the 1950s by Robert Wuthnow (and more). El Nuevo Normal: In cities like Allentown and Bethlehem, Spanish-speaking immigrants are influencing the local culture — but America is changing them, too.
