Author: nikheynen
Story in The Bitter Southerner that covers our Sapelo Island Project
Click here to read full story: https://bittersoutherner.com/feature/2020/raising-cane-sapelo-island-shane-mitchell
Sweet (and sticky) redemption
There is no U.S. agricultural history without the expertise and labor of African people who were enslaved across the South, including the Gullah/Geechee people of the lower Atlantic Coast. But the violence of slavery and […]
Community Solar as Energy Reparations: Abolishing Petro-Racial Capitalism in New Orleans
Luke, N. and N. Heynen. (2020) “Community Solar as Energy Reparations: Abolishing Petro-Racial Capitalism in New Orleans.” American Quarterly. 72(3): 603-625. Intro excerpt: Community solar programs geared to low-income communities strive to address energy poverty […]
On Abolition Ecologies and Making “Freedom as a Place”
Heynen, N. and M. Ybarra (2020) “On Abolition Ecologies and Making ‘Freedom as a Place’” Antipode. Abstract: This introduction calls for political ecology to systematically engage with the ways that white supremacy shapes human relationships […]
“A plantation can be a commons”: Re‐Earthing Sapelo Island through Abolition Ecology
Heynen, N. (2020). “A plantation can be a commons”: Re‐Earthing Sapelo Island through Abolition Ecology. Antipode. Abstract This paper is based on the 2018 Neil Smith Lecture presented at the University of St Andrews. It […]
Land Trusts as Conservation Boundary Organizations in Rapidly Exurbanizing Landscapes: A Case Study from Southern Appalachia
Brownson, Katherine, Jessica Chappell, Jason Meador, Jennifer Bloodgood, Jillian Howard, Linda Kosen, Hannah Burnett et al. (2020) “Land Trusts as Conservation Boundary Organizations in Rapidly Exurbanizing Landscapes: A Case Study from Southern Appalachia.” Society & […]
What Harriet Tubman and John Brown can teach us about abolishing ‘White men’
Heynen, N. (2020). What Harriet Tubman and John Brown can teach us about abolishing ‘White men’. Dialogues in Human Geography. Abstract This commentary argues that one path toward Natalie Oswin’s ‘An Other Geography’ is through […]
Unscripted interview with UGA professor Nik Heynen
https://kaltura.uga.edu/media/t/1_agfirndy/129781821 “Professor Nik Heynen is the co-director of the UGA Cornelia Walker Bailey Program on Land and Agriculture on Sapelo Island. Georgia. One of the natural treasures among the barrier islands along the Georgia coast, […]
Myths, Cults, Memories, and Revisions in Radical Geographic History
Warren, G. C., Katz, C., & Heynen, N. (2019). Myths, cults, memories, and revisions in radical geographic history: revisiting the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute. Spatial Histories of Radical Geography: North America and Beyond, 59-85. […]
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