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The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance cover image of a woman sitting near the edge of an orbuk (sinkhole). Volume IX, Issue I, About Place Journal, May 2026

The Ground Beneath Us: Place, Power, and Resistance

Volume IX, Issue I – May 2026

Issue editors: Amanda Ngoho Reavey & Seth Copeland

Assistant editors: Nora Boxer & Beatrice Szymkowiak

Managing editor: Michael McDermott

Layout editor: Jesse Hughes

Web development: Creature Works

Cover artwork: Çıralı Obruğu by Isabelle Santiago

Preface

“We stand on ancestral land. We walk through stolen cities. We return to sacred places. We resist with our bodies, with our breath, with our stories.”
The Ground Beneath Us – Wild Echoes section head

Section artwork: Buffalo Autumn by Kathleen Frank

“against skies on fire a hundred years extremes
of this and that, parliamentary sludge”
The Ground Beneath Us – Urban Tapestries section head

Section artwork: The Road Home by Najib Joe Hakim

“The world is a lonely place
until we consider the neighbor.”
The Ground Beneath Us – Fractured Borders section head

Section artwork: Rice Road by Andrea A. Gluckman

“There’s tradition between a border and self.”
The Ground Beneath Us – Hidden Depths section head

Section artwork: Untitled Abstraction by Leigh Herrick

“In the end, the ground does not negotiate.”

 

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