BTW, your post made me revisit this article I've had saved in previous work on Gullah-Geechee here on our coast and Plantersville... any familiarity to this? https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37994938
This was a thought provoking piece, thank you! Notes of Doreen Massey coming through for me in places. I wonder too about the other side of that unhistorical view we have in childhood, what it's potential might be for connecting with the land without the influence of colonial history.
I live in Georgetown County. I grew up in a small rural community called Plantersville. Thank you for writing this!
BTW, your post made me revisit this article I've had saved in previous work on Gullah-Geechee here on our coast and Plantersville... any familiarity to this? https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37994938
Indeed.
I know Plantersville! 701 near Waccamaw Refuge... beautiful place (we're actually just across the way in Murrells Inlet this week).
Thanks so much for reading and reaching out!
This was a thought provoking piece, thank you! Notes of Doreen Massey coming through for me in places. I wonder too about the other side of that unhistorical view we have in childhood, what it's potential might be for connecting with the land without the influence of colonial history.
Thanks so much, Anna… I’ve read a little of Massey’s Spatial Politics in PhD coursework, but I need to go back and do a deeper dive!
Completely agree about childhood and perception, and I think there’s a really interesting thread there about colonialism and place!