The Antipode Foundation’s 5th Institute for the Geographies of Justice took place in Johannesburg, South Africa, in June. A highlight of the week was a series of public lectures and panels: On Monday 22nd June, Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Professor of Geography, City University of New York) presented “Extraction: Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence”, with an introduction from Ruth Hopkins (Senior Journalist, Wits Justice Project); [ 179 more words. ]
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On Wednesday April 22nd, Vinay Gidwani (University of Minnesota) presented the 2015 Antipode AAG Lecture. Entitled “People Without Property in Jobs: Stuart Hall and the Conundrums of Contemporary Urbanization in India”, Vinay's lecture (and the Q&A that followed) is now available as a video online here. And you can still access, without a subscription, the 16 Antipode papers we pulled together to be read as a primer or further reading - our virtual issue on “wasting/valuing lands and lives”, “everyday life in the modern world”, and “a right to the city?”. [ 185 more words. ]
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Hot off the press this week we have something special courtesy of Stuart Elden (University of Warwick) and Adam David Morton (University of Sydney) – a translation (by Warwick's Matthew Dennis) of Henri Lefebvre’s 1956 essay ‘Théorie de la rente foncière et sociologie rurale’ / ‘The Theory of Ground Rent and Rural Sociology’. It was first published in the… [ 216 more words. ]
This time last year we published a virtual issue of the journal to mark Gareth Stedman Jones and Jane Wills’ Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture. Entitled ‘Class, Politics, and Representation’, it brought together 22 papers (making them open access) on the making of working class life; productions of space through class struggle; changes to trade union organising; the importance of extra-workplace institutions; the production of scale; issues of labour migration; what we might call ‘problematic politics’; the limits to agency; workers’ moral geographies; representations of the working class and their ends; and much more. [ 3451 more words. ]
We've published some great book reviews on AntipodeFoundation.org recently, including... Christopher Taylor (University of Chicago) on Martha Schoolman’s Abolitionist Geographies; Ian Shaw (University of Glasgow) on Grégoire Chamayou’s Drone Theory and Adam Rothstein’s Drone; Karen McCallum (University of London) on Gita Sen and Marina Durano’s The Remaking of Social Contracts: Feminists in a Fierce New World; Anna Laing (Northumbria University) on Leandro Vergara-Camus’ … [ 264 more words. ]
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We've published some great book reviews on AntipodeFoundation.org recently, including... Christopher Taylor (University of Chicago) on Martha Schoolman’s Abolitionist Geographies; Ian Shaw (Univers...
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by Andy Merrifield* I’ve been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest who denounced the Vatican, a global intellectual who toured continents on foot. He lived a rich life as an ascetic, studying crystallography in Florence, medieval history in Salzburg, and theology and philosophy in Rome. [ 2690 more words. ]
The Antipode Foundation’s 5th Institute for the Geographies of Justice takes place next week in Johannesburg, South Africa, and the organisers would like to invite people in the area to a series of public lectures and panels: On Monday 22nd June, Ruth Wilson Gilmore (Professor of Geography at the City University of New York) will be presenting "Extraction: Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence… [ 121 more words. ]
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Pride Month is an annual celebration marking the 1969 Stonewall protests (making it a couple of months older than the journal - we started August '69), and this year our publisher, Wiley, are making a brilliant collection of papers freely available through their blog, The Philosopher's Eye. As well as essays on everything from biomedical ethics, the family and children, and film and television, to education, society and culture, the collection includes our hot-off-the-press symposium, edited by Natalie Oswin (McGill University, Canada), … [ 280 more words. ]
Forthcoming in Antipode 47(5) in November - and available online now - Malini Ranganathan's Storm Drains as Assemblages: The Political Ecology of Flood Risk in Post-Colonial Bangalore "materializes" the political ecology of urban flood risk by casting stormwater drains – a key artifact implicated in flooding – as "recombinant socionatural assemblages". It examines the production of flood risk in the city of Bangalore, India, focusing on the city’s informal outskirts where drains, wetlands, informal urbanism, and circulations of global capital are concentrated. [ 259 more words. ]
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Video abstract – Katie Wells talks about “A Housing Crisis, a Failed Law, and a Property Conflict: The US Urban Speculation Tax” http://wp.me/p16RPC-1ah
Forthcoming in Antipode 47(4) in September 2015, and available online now, Katie Wells' "A Housing Crisis, a Failed Law, and a Property Conflict: The US Urban Speculation Tax" is a fine contribution to the journal's growing collection of papers* on property rights, racial politics, housing markets and urban policy. Here's how Katie describes the paper: In 1978 the local government in the District of Columbia approved a measure to tax up to 70% of the profits made on residential speculation. [ 465 more words. ]
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Intervention – “Gay-Friendly or Homophobic? The Absence and Problems of Global Standards” http://wp.me/p16RPC-19P
by Kath Browne (University of Brighton), Niharika Banerjea (Ambedkar University Delhi), Leela Bakshi and Nick McGlynn (University of Brighton) Introduction The place of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual (and, although often not addressed) Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ)[1] rights in a nation’s agenda and its link to economic growth is being used as a development indicator for nations across the globe. Whilst some view this as a progressive indicator of change that addresses global homophobia, others have noted how the superiority of the Global North in relation to sexual rights can be invoked as a rationale for moral superiority and at times military intervention (see, for example, Currah 2013; Hubbard and Wilkinson 2015; Morgensen 2010; Oswin 2007; Puar 2007, 2013). [ 2310 more words. ]
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Book review essay – “Geographies of Peace” http://wp.me/p16RPC-19z
Fiona McConnell, Nick Megoran and Philippa Williams (eds), Geographies of Peace, London: I.B.Tauris, 2014. ISBN: 9781780761435 (cloth) Reviewed by Jenna M. Loyd, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee The lyncher and the atom bomber are related. The first cannot murder unpunished and unrebuked without so encouraging the latter that the peace of the world and the lives of millions are endangered… [ 3597 more words. ]
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The 2015 Antipode AAG Lecture – Vinay Gidwani’s “People Without Property in Jobs: Stuart Hall and the Conundrums of Contemporary Urbanization in India” http://wp.me/p16RPC-19u
For those in Chicago, today is the day! Join us on Wednesday April 22nd at 17:20 in Grand C/D North, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level for the 2015 Antipode AAG Lecture. Vinay Gidwani’s “People Without Property in Jobs: Stuart Hall and the Conundrums of Contemporary Urbanization in India” will be followed by a drinks reception–and the Antipode Groovefest!–sponsored by our publisher, Wiley. [ 39 more words. ]
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Virtual issue – “People Without Property in Jobs: Stuart Hall and the Conundrums of Contemporary Urbanization in India” http://wp.me/p16RPC-198
On Wednesday April 22nd, Vinay Gidwani will be presenting the 2015 Antipode AAG Lecture from 17:20 to 19:00 in Grand C/D North, Hyatt, East Tower, Gold Level. His lecture will be followed by a drinks reception–and the Antipode Groovefest!–sponsored by our publisher, Wiley. Vinay is a Professor of Geography, Environment, and Society at the University of Minnesota. From 2009 to 2014 he was an editor of… [ 4147 more words. ]
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Call for proposals – Antipode special issues and symposia http://wp.me/p16RPC-192
***Deadline this month*** Antipode occasionally publishes special issues and symposia (see here and here, for some examples). The Editorial Collective seeks papers that both individually and collectively make a significant contribution to the advancement of radical/critical geography, whether by pushing debates forward in novel ways or by taking discussions in new directions. We look for papers that speak to ongoing conversations in the field, to be sure, but as representatives of an undisciplined discipline we also look for papers that stray beyond established borders (of all kinds) and that think creatively about the journal’s lines of descent and possible futures. [ 167 more words. ]
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Critical dialogue – Kean Birch responds to Brett Christophers’ “Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away” http://wp.me/p16RPC-18W
A response to Brett Christophers’ Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away by Kean Birch, Department of Social Science, York University, kean@yorku.ca Critique, rejection, failure … of these wonderful things academia is made.[1] Or something to that effect. It’s always gratifying to know that someone is reading your work, even if critically, and so I want to thank Brett Christophers for his vigorous critique of my new book, … [ 3735 more words. ]
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Book review essay – “We Have Never Been Neoliberal: A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth” http://wp.me/p16RPC-18J
Book review essay - Kean Birch, We Have Never Been Neoliberal: A Manifesto for a Doomed Youth, Alresford: Zero Books, 2015. ISBN: 978-1-78099-534-2 (paper); ISBN: 978-1-78099-535-9 (ebook) Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away by Brett Christophers, Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University, brett.christophers@ibf.uu.se “Politics may be inseparable from stances on economics”, observes Philip Mirowski in his response to four reviews in… [ 4458 more words. ]
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- New article of mine just out! It's open access so anyone can read it.... Hope it's of interests. The article is titled, "Rethinking value int he bio-economy: Finance, assetization, and the management of value" [Ignore the error message, it seems SAGE websites don't transfer well to Facebook] See More
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