Selected Publications

Derek Alderman

n   Alderman, Derek H. 2012. Cultural Change and Diffusion: Geographical Patterns, Social Processes, and Contact Zones.  21st Century Geography: A Reference Handbook (Vol. 1), SAGE Publications (edited by Joseph Stoltman), pp. 123-134.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H., Paul Kingsbury, and Owen Dwyer. (forthcoming, 2013) Re-examining the Montgomery Bus Boycott: Toward an Empathetic Pedagogy of the Civil Rights Movement . Professional Geographer.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H., Terri Moreau, and Stefanie Benjamin. 2012. The Andy Griffith Show: Mayberry as Working Class Utopia . Blue-Collar Pop Culture: From NASCAR to Jersey Shore, (Vol. 2) Television and the Culture of Everyday Life, Praeger (edited by M. Keith Booker), pp. 51-69.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and G. Rebecca Dobbs. 2011.  Geographies of Slavery: Of Theory, Method, and Intervention . Historical Geography 39:  Introduction to special thematic issue guest edited by the authors.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and William Graves. 2011. Innovations in Southern Studies within Geography. Southeastern Geographer 51(4): 505-512. Introduction to special thematic issue guest edited by the authors.

 

n      Modlin, E. Arnold Jr., Derek Alderman, and Glenn W. Gentry. 2011.  Tour Guides as Creators of Empathy: The Role of Affective Inequality in Marginalizing the Enslaved at Plantation House Museums . Tourist Studies 11(1): 3-19.

 

n      Derek H. Alderman and Robert N. Brown. 2011. When a New Deal is Actually an Old Deal: The Role of TVA in Engineering a Racialized Jim Crow Landscape . Engineering Earth: The Impacts of Mega-engineering Projects, Volume 3, Springer (edited by Stanly Brunn), pp. 1901-1916.

 

n      Mitchelson, Ronald L. and Derek H. Alderman. 2011. Mapping NASCAR Valley: Charlotte as Knowledge Community. Southeastern Geographer 34(4): 453-470.

 

n      Rose-Redwood, Reuben, Derek H. Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu. 2010. Geographies of Toponymic Inscription: New Directions in Critical Place-Name Studies. Progress in Human Geography 34(4): 453-470.

 

n      Mitchelson, Ronald L. and Derek H. Alderman. 2010. Red Dust and Dynamometers: Charlotte as Memory and Knowledge Community in NASCAR. Charlotte, NC: The Global Evolution of a New South City, University of Georgia Press (edited by William Graves and Heather A. Smith), pp.50-86.

 

n      Eskridge, Anna and Derek H. Alderman. 2010. Alien Invaders, Plant Thugs, and the Southern Curse: Framing Kudzu as Environmental Other through Discourses of Fear.  Southeastern Geographer 50(1): 110-129. Contribution to special issue "Political Ecology of the South" (guest edited by Ed Carr and Patrick Hurley).

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2010. Surrogation and the Politics of Remembering Slavery in Savannah, Georgia. Journal of Historical Geography 36: 90-101.

 

 n      Alderman Derek. H. and Owen J. Dwyer. 2009. Memorials and Monuments. International Encyclopedia of Human Geography , Oxford : Elsevier (edited by Rob Kitchin and Nigel Thrift), Volume 7, pp. 51-58.

 

 n      Alderman, Derek H. 2009. Virtual Place-Naming, Internet Domains, and the Politics of Misdirection: The case of martinlutherking.org. Critical Toponymies, Ashgate Press (edited by Lawrence Berg and Jani Vuolteenaho), pp. 267-283.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and Rachel Campbell. 2008. Symbolic Excavation and the Artifact Politics of Remembering Slavery in the American South: Observations from Walterboro, South Carolina. Southeastern Geographer 48(3): 338-355.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and E. Arnold Modlin, Jr. 2008. (In)Visibility of the Enslaved within Online Plantation Tourism Marketing: A Textual Analysis of North Carolina Web Sites. Journal of Travel and Tourism Marketing 25 (3/4): 265-281.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2008. The Politics of Preserving the King's Courts: Why We Should Take Elvis Fans Seriously. The Southern Quarterly 46(1): 46-77.

 

n      Dwyer, Owen J. and Derek H. Alderman. 2008. Memorial Landscapes: Analytic Questions and Metaphors. GeoJournal 73(3): 165-178.  Contribution to special issue "Collective Memory and the Politics of Urban Space." (guest edited by Reuben Rose-Redwood, Derek Alderman, and Maoz Azaryahu).

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Martin Luther King, Jr. Streets in the South: A New Landscape of Memory. Southern Cultures 14(3): 88-105.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2008. Place, Naming, and the Interpretation of Cultural Landscapes. In The Ashgate Research Companion to Heritage and Identity, Ashgate Press (edited by Brian Graham and Peter Howard), pp. 195-213.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and Heather Ward. 2008. The Writing on the Plywood: Toward an Analysis of Hurricane Graffiti. Coastal Management Journal 36(1): 1-18.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H., Steve Spina, and Preston Mitchell. 2008. A Bumpy Road: the Challenges of Naming Streets for Martin Luther King, Jr. Planning 74(1): 18-21. Contribution to American Planning Association magazine (circulation: 37,749).

 

n      Gentry, Glenn W. and Derek H. Alderman. 2007. Trauma Written in the Flesh: Tattoos as Memorials and Stories. In Narrating the Storm: Sociological Stories of Hurricane Katrina, Cambridge Scholars Publishing (edited by Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo and Kristen Barber), pp. 184-197.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and Preston Mitchell. 2007. A Sign of Changing Times: A Street Renaming Lesson from Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Public Management  89(6): 37-38. Contribution to International City/County Management Association magazine as part of special feature entitled "Street Naming: Not as Easy as You Might Think.".

 

n      Mitchelson, Matthew, Derek H. Alderman, Jeff Popke. 2007. Branded: The Economic Geographies of MLK Streets. Social Science Quarterly 88(1): 120-145.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2006. Naming Streets after Martin Luther King, Jr.: No Easy Road. In Landscape and Race in the United States, Routledge Press (edited by Richard Schein), pp. 213-236.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2005. Rednecks, Bluenecks, and Hickphonics: Southern Humor on the Electronic Frontier. In Intersecting Paths: The Legacy of Old Southwest Humor, Louisiana State University Press (edited by Edward J. Piacentino), pp. 261-278. 

 

n      Hoelscher, Steven and Derek H. Alderman. 2004. Memory and Places: Geographies of a Critical Relationship. Social and Cultural Geography 5(3): 347-355. Introduction to special issue on "Place and Memory" (Organized by Alderman, Hoelscher, and Dwyer). Most downloaded article from journal for 2005.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and Owen J. Dwyer. 2004. Putting Memory in its Place: The Politics of Commemoration in the Post-Civil Rights Movement South. In WorldMinds: Geographical Perspectives on 100 Problems, Boston: Kluwer Academic Publishers (Edited by Don Janelle, Barney Warf, and Kathy Hansen), pp. 55-60.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2004. Channing Cope and the Making of a Miracle Vine.  Geographical Review 94(2): 157-177. Contribution to special issue on "People, Places, & Invasive Species" (guest edited by Paul Robbins).

 

n      Mitchell, Preston, Derek H. Alderman, Jeffery T. Web, and Dustin Stancil. 2004. When Wal-Mart Doesn’t Come to Town: Competitive Responses of Established Retail Merchants in Edenton, North Carolina. Geographical Bulletin  46(1): 15-24.

 

n      Pandit, Kavita and Derek H. Alderman. 2004. Border Crossings in the Classroom: The International Student Interview as a Strategy for Promoting Intercultural Understanding. Journal of Geography 103(3): 127-136. Contribution to special issue on "Teaching Social Justice" (guest edited by Chris Merrett).

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2004. Toward a Newsworthy Cultural Geography. Journal of Cultural Geography 22(1): 139-142. Invited contribution to "Dialogues" section of journal.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2003. Street names and the scaling of memory: The politics of commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. within the African-American community. Area 35 (2): 163-173.

 

n      Jones, Kimberly L. and Derek H. Alderman. 2003. Antiques Tourism and the Selling of Heritage in Eastern North Carolina. North Carolina Geographer 11: 74-87. (Faculty-student research initiative, Role: Contributed introduction, conceptual framework, and final writing and editing)

 

n       Alderman, Derek H., Preston Mitchell, Jeffrey T. Webb, and Derek Hanak. 2003. Carolina Thunder Revisited: Toward a Transcultural View of Winston Cup Racing. Professional Geographer 55(2): 238-249.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and Jeffery Popke. 2002. Using Humor and Film in the Geography Classroom: Learning from Michael Moore’s TV Nation. Journal of Geography 101: 228-239. Contribution to special issue on "Teaching Cinematic Geographies I" (guest edited by Leo Zonn).

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2002. School Names as Cultural Arenas: The Naming of U.S. Public Schools after Martin Luther King, Jr.  Urban Geography 23(7): 601-626.

 

n      Meindl, Chris, Derek H. Alderman, and Peter Waylen. 2002. On the Importance of Environmental Claims Making: The Role of James Wright in Promoting Drainage of the Everglades in Early 20th Century Florida.  Annals of the Association of American Geographers 92(4): 682-701.  (Role: Contributed theoretical framework).

 

n       Alderman, Derek H. 2002. Street Names as Memorial Arenas: The Reputational Politics of Commemorating Martin Luther King, Jr. in a Georgia County.  Historical Geography 30: 99-120.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2002. Writing on the Graceland Wall: On the Importance of Authorship in Pilgrimage Landscapes. Tourism Recreation Research 27(2): 27-34. Contribution to special issue on "Sacred Journeys" (guest edited by Dallen Timothy).

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and Donna G’Segner Alderman.   2001.  Kudzu: A Tale of Two Vines. Southern Cultures 7(3): 49-64.

 

n      Good, Daniel B., Derek H. Alderman, and Delma Presley.  2001. Tomato, Snap, and Fly: Postal Records and Place-Names in Local Settlement Histories.  Georgia Historical Quarterly 85(2): 227-244.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. 2000.  A Street fit for a King: Naming Places and Commemoration in the American South.  Professional Geographer 52(4): 672-684.  

 

n      Alderman, Derek H. and Robert M. Beavers.  1999. Heart of Dixie Revisited: An Update on the Geography of Naming in the American South. Southeastern Geographer 39:190-205.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H.  1998.  A Vine for Postmodern Times: An Update on Kudzu at the End of the 20th Century.  Southeastern Geographer 38(2): 167-179.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H.  1997.  TV News Hyper-Coverage and the Representation of Place: Observations on the O.J. Simpson Case.  Geografiska Annaler 79 B (2): 83-95.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H.  1997.  Integrating Space into a Reactive Theory of the Asylum: Evidence from Post-Civil War Georgia.  Health & Place 3(2): 111-122.  Contribution to special issue "Space, Place, and the Asylum" (guest edited by John Radford and Deborah Park).

 

n      Alderman, Derek H., and Daniel B. Good.   1997. Exploring the Virtual South: The Idea of a Distinctive Region on the Web.  Southeastern Geographer 37(1): 20-45.

 

n      Alderman, Derek H.  1996. Creating a New Geography of Memory in the South: The (Re) Naming of Streets in Honor of Martin Luther King, Jr.  Southeastern Geographer 36(1): 51-69.