Cities Remember What We Try to Forget

Posted by Santosh Kumar Ketham on 2025-12-04

There’s a sound beneath every city, a kind of heartbeat we pretend not to hear. It hums through pavement cracks and lingers in dust swept from demolished doorways. We call it progress when the skyline rises. But I keep wondering: progress for whom, and at what cost? While editing this special issue of Socio-Cultural Theory, I wasn’t just reviewing articles. I was walking through a chorus of [...]

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Getting Black Back into the Story: Why Black People Mattered at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

Posted by Scott Hancock on 2025-12-03

Most Sundays, especially when the weather is pleasant, I go for long walks on a bucolic, peaceful landscape, whose gently rolling hills and farms are marked off by wood split-rail fences. The landscape looks like it could have been pulled straight out of mid-nineteenth century rural United States. And that’s because in many respects it was: the nearly 2500 hectares surrounding the small town of [...]

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