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Wild Hogs in the Water: Contested Infrastructural Ecologies of Reservoir Storage in Texas Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-02-20 Sayd Randle
Reservoirs are developed to store water in reserve for future use. But once built, reservoir sites inevitably hold more than just water, often serving as a key habitat for a range of species. This paper examines how one such animal has transformed water storage facilities and nearby landscapes into contested ground in urbanising areas of Texas, USA. Living around the reservoirs, feral hogs complicate
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Barred and Banished: Encampment Evictions, Public Space, and Permanent Displaceability in Toronto Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-02-19 Farida Rady, Luisa Sotomayor
Despite Toronto's motto of diversity and inclusion, the municipality has recently mobilised exclusionary spatio-legal tools against unhoused populations using claims to law and order. This article examines one such case of legal action, its precedents, and its constitutive effects on urban citizenship and governance. In 2021, amidst a homelessness crisis aggravated by COVID-19, Toronto police executed
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Disorientations: The Political Ecology of “Displacing” Floating Communities from Cambodia's Tonle Sap Lake Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-02-13 Sopheak Chann, Alice Beban, Amanda Flaim, Timothy Gorman, Long Ly Vouch
In this article, we extend a theory of disorientations to reveal how attempts to fix and control both water and people are disrupting once-fluid relationships between the Tonle Sap Lake and communities who have lived with-on the lake for generations. Using ethnographic and participatory mapping methods, we examine the socio-ecological dynamics that preceded and succeeded in the forced relocation of
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“The island is now a big vegetable garden”: Imaginaries of Nature and Carceral Reform at Rikers Island Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-02-07 Zoe Alexander
The practice of conflating green with a social and moral good is a historically specific social process. The purpose of this article is to show how that process has made particularly good company for carceral humanism and legitimisation. By tracing initiatives integrating gardening at New York City's Rikers Island jail complex, I argue that projects and narratives cloaked in visions of green, nature
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Where Asylum and Austerity Meet: Deservingness and In/Exclusion in Rochdale Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Alistair Sheldrick
The UK's asylum and social welfare systems have both been transformed by major organisational changes, funding cuts, and privatisations through a decade of austerity. With this, asylum-seeker accommodation and the impacts of welfare reform have become increasingly concentrated in already-impoverished, peripheral urban areas such as Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Despite these parallels, scholarship
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Carbonous Concealment: Governing “Wild” Substances and Subterranean Storage in an Era of Climate Change Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-02-05 Sean Field
Drawing on ethnographic field research that I conducted in Houston, Texas since late 2018, I explore subterranean storage arrangements utilised by the US hydrocarbon industry. I argue that storage is vital not only to its pluri-temporal strategies but to the outward projection of good governance. Natural gas, I show, has evolved from excess nuisance, to liability, to potential asset turned commodity
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Subsidising Extraction: Care at Work in Zambia's Copper Mines Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-02-04 Emma Lochery, Thomas McNamara, James Musonda
This article explores the ambivalence of care and its role in sustaining capitalist extraction in Zambia's copper mines. Based on ethnographic research within mines and their encompassing communities, the article documents the caring practices of mineworkers and attempts of trade unionists and managerial staff to counsel and support mineworkers as they navigate exploitative employment conditions. These
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The Carceral Geographies of Platform Delivery Work: Essential Workers and Bike Registrations in New York City Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-01-29 Vignesh Ramachandran
The critical platform studies literature is increasingly considering the role of social difference as a structuring logic in the platform economy, complementing understandings of worker precarity facilitated by worker misclassification and algorithmic management. Contributing to this literature, this paper demonstrates how platforms and police produce carceral geographies that manage and exploit immigrant
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“We touch their heart”: Plastic Automaticity and Affective Labour at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Airport Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-01-24 Peter Adey, Weiqiang Lin, Tina Harris
Labour research in geography has long been fascinated with the role of affects and emotions in capitalism. This article foregrounds ambivalent moments when labour creatively uses affection and intimacy to make claims over autonomy and agency. Set against a backdrop of increasing automation of infrastructural work, we draw on interviews with personnel at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Airport (CGK). In culturally
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The Duty of Water: Land, Labour, and the Racialisation of Waste in Colonial and Contemporary Punjab Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-01-23 Maira Hayat
In our present changing climate, water governance is fast becoming a matter of concern everywhere, but especially in the Global South, which has long been the object of (mis)understandings of state failure and dysfunction. A common characterisation of “bad” water governance calls attention to the waste of water. In this article I show how contemporary development discourse and practice around the waste
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Domesticating Responsibility: Refugee Hosting and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kathy Burrell
In March 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK government launched its “Homes for Ukraine” private hosting scheme. The British public were urged to support Ukraine by signing up to host people fleeing the war in their own homes. There are many critiques of the scheme, especially the racialised connotations of welcoming Ukrainians while shunning others seeking sanctuary. However
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Refugees’ (In)dependency Conundrum: Obstructed Social Reproduction Activities and Unpaid Labour in Refugee Camps Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-01-10 Martina Tazzioli
This article uses the analytical lens of (in)dependency conundrum to highlight how asylum seekers in refugee camps are pushed to be self-reliant while, however, their autonomous social reproduction activities and spaces of liveability are hindered. Focusing on Greece, it intertwines critical migration scholarship with feminist geography literature on unpaid labour to investigate refugees’ obstructed
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Running on Empty: Depletion and Social Reproduction in Myanmar and Sri Lanka Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Jayanthi Thiyaga Lingham, Melissa Johnston
A social reproduction framework that uses depletion reveals how multiple crises intersect. We deploy this framework to examine the relationship between depletion and conflict. Drawing on research undertaken in Myanmar and Sri Lanka in early 2020, we argue that the weight of social reproduction under conflict conditions increases women's depletion. Our findings showed, however, that increased depletion
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Internal Colonialism as Socio-Ecological Fix: The Case of New Clark City in the Philippines Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Lauren Crabb, Celal Cahit Agar, Steffen Böhm
We study the emergence of New Clark City, Philippines, which is part of the country's development programme “Build-Build-Build”. Triangulating data from field observations, interviews, and documents, we analyse the social, economic, and ecological consequences of this “city of the future”. The city enables capital to be fixed into space, which (i) creates new accumulation opportunities for investors
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Hegel's Minor and Major Geographies: Space, Consciousness, and Change Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-19 Antonio A. R. Ioris
It is still largely ignored that Hegelian dialect can be of great assistance to comprehend the intricacies of the production, experience, and contestation of space. Hegelian philosophy can significantly help to enrich geographical scholarship, although Hegel-the-geographer is yet to be discovered and properly recognised. Considering the metabolism of reason, the articulation between the particular
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Vacancy as Precarious Property in Dublin's Temporary Urbanism Moment Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-15 Cian O'Callaghan
This paper makes a case for viewing vacancy as “precarious property” (Blomley 2020; Antipode 52[1]:36–57), i.e. less a material object defined by absence of use than the property relation (understood as a bundle of social, economic, legal, and political relationships) put under strain by the visibility of non-use. Focusing on Dublin's temporary urbanism moment (2008–2017), the paper has two aims. Firstly
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Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-14 Maria Hagan, Sébastien Bachelet
Amidst well-documented hostile migration policies, this article explores how logics of criminalisation seep into the lives of activists and citizens, providing assistance, relief, advocacy, and other forms of support to migrant people. As presences considered legal and legitimate, solidarity actors inhabit distinct subjectivities from those of people migrating informally, yet state authorities interpret
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Militant Research in the Housing Movement: The Community Action Tenants Union Rent Strike History Project Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-12 Fiadh Tubridy
Knowledge generated by and with radical housing movements is necessary to achieve a more just housing system. This article analyses a militant research project involving collective investigation of the history of rent strikes in Ireland undertaken within the Community Action Tenants Union Ireland. Drawing on the tradition of workers’ inquiry, it explores the relationships between militant research
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Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-11 Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Kirsti Ashworth, Reuben Larbi
Militaries around the world are a major source of carbon emissions, yet very little is known about their carbon footprint. Reliable data around military resource use and environmental damage is highly variable. Researchers are dependent upon military transparency, the context of military operations, and broader emissions reporting. While studies are beginning to emerge on global militaries and their
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Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-03 Desiree Fields, Emma R. Power, Kenton Card
Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations
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Countering Hegemonic Human Rights Norms through Migrant Labour Organising: The Case of Migrant Justice Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Jacob P. Chamberlain
This article analyses undocumented migrant labour organising in a complicated context and site, the Vermont dairy industry, in relation to Tanya Basok's concept of “counter-hegemonic human rights”. Taking migrant rights organisation Migrant Justice in Burlington, Vermont as a case study, this work examines migrant labour organising that calls upon notions of human rights for economic migrants in the
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When the Abu Dhabi United Group Came to Town: Constructing an Organisational Fix for State Capitalism through the Manchester Life Partnership Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-12-04 Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver, Jonathan Silver
For many cities, the entry of financial actors into housing opens new geopolitical relations with overseas entities, including state-backed investors such as sovereign wealth funds. These transformations raise the question of the extent to which real estate enables the urbanisation of state capitalism, understood as the expansion of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital. Our
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The Ethics of Self-Care: Risk, Responsibility, and Reproduction in Chile Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Martina Yopo Díaz
The meanings of self-care are complex, ranging from radical political warfare to structural biopolitical governmentality. This paper explores lived tensions of self-care by analysing women's experiences negotiating pregnancy in Santiago de Chile. Drawing on 40 life story interviews, the findings show that although sexual education, contraception, and abortion remain constrained and structured according
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Citizen-rentier-ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Émile Baril
Platform food delivery workers have been under much scrutiny over the last couple of years. Undocumented riders, and their recent strikes and protests in France, have not received as much attention as other issues regarding platform labour (contract work, algorithmic control, surveillance). This article follows fieldwork conducted in Paris and interviews with food couriers. Building on work by critical
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Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-23 Diego Astorga de Ita
This essay considers how the grasslands of the Mexican region of El Sotavento entangle with the history of racial capitalism and with traditional Sotaventine music. Throughout this text, I argue that son Jarocho music and its poetics counterpoint racist colonial discourses making space for ways of being beyond racial capitalism. I review the history of Sotaventine grasslands, counterpointing their
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Round Trip Policies: Housing and Self-Management, from Europe to Latin America and Back Again Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-22 Ibán Díaz-Parra, Jose Candón-Mena, Cecilia Zapata
Current debates in radical urban studies and comparative urbanism focus in part on the denunciation of universalisation in urban theories as an expression of Eurocentrism. Decolonial and postcolonial scholars risk rejecting general theorising in the name of particularism, difference, and the fragmentary character of the world and reducing every urban policy transmission to the result of colonial relations
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One Kensington Gardens: Buy-to-Leave Gentrification in the Royal Borough Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-21 Sharda Rozena
One Kensington Gardens is a large nine-storey luxury apartment building on High Street Kensington. Rarely are there any lights on. The building exemplifies the many buy-to-leave homes in Kensington and Chelsea, the richest local authority in the UK. Looking at these homes from the perspective of residents and councillors who live and work in the borough, I explore how buy-to-leave housing hollows out
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Trash Transformations: Litter, Volunteer Labour, and Care in Philadelphia Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Kristin Hankins
This article examines anti-litter labour in Philadelphia as a site of political possibility. Drawing on four years of ethnographic fieldwork conducted with a grassroots anti-litter group, I argue that embodied spatial practices at the organisation's clean-ups produce lived and imagined images of a more just urban landscape. These imperfect and impermanent images illuminate the possibilities and challenges
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When Broken Worlds Churn: The Anti-Caste Fabulations of Du Saraswathi Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-20 Shreyas Sreenath
How can literary fabulation prompt a reflection on caste, colonial, and capitalist lifeworlds? Engaging with two short stories by the Dalit feminist thinker Du Saraswathi, this article considers the role of fabulation in sparking anti-caste praxis, decolonial thought, and a reflection on ecological interdependence. Bacchisu (“Tip”) and Honnahelu (“Shit and Gold”) are penned in the context of the sanitation
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Crosscurrents of Contagion: Snakes, Rumours, Rivers, and Ebola in Sierra Leone's Borderlands Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-15 Samuel Mark Anderson
When the Ebola virus crossed undetected into Sierra Leone and exacerbated the 2014–15 crisis, the World Health Organization blamed the breach on a traditional healer treating patients from Guinea. Meanwhile, local residents initially maintained that her death was not Ebola-related but a serpent's curse, an assumption grounded in lived experience of snake charmer spectacles. Both narratives drowned
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Between Migration and Exile: Muslim Women's Geographies of Citizenship in India Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Wajiha Mehdi
Against the backdrop of India's 2019 Islamophobic Citizenship Amendment Act, this article is based on ethnographic research with young Muslim women from Aligarh which aimed to show that their narratives of displacement and exclusion from citizenship inspired their search for belonging and enabled them to reinscribe spaces with their own, marginalised, but nonetheless real, projects of belonging. From
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The Economic Politics of Anti-Displacement Struggle: Connecting Diverse and Community Economies Research with Critical Urban Studies on the Carpenters Estate, London Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 Myfanwy Taylor
This article explores the economic politics of anti-displacement struggle, bringing into conversation critical urban studies and diverse and community economies research. It draws on my research and collaboration with a community planning group which emerged from residents’ and businesses’ struggle against displacement on the Carpenters Estate in Newham, London in 2012/13. My analysis makes visible
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The Roles and Intersections of Constrained Labour Agency Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-16 David C. Jordhus-Lier, Neil M. Coe
Ever since labour geography first started demonstrating workers’ ability to shape geographies, geographers have problematised the agency of labour. This article responds to a recent intervention by Strauss (2020a; Progress in Human Geography 44[1]:150–159), challenging the sub-discipline to reflect on who counts as a worker and what counts as work. By combining theories of roles and intersectionality
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The “European Yellowstone”: Entrepreneurs of the Wilderness and Transnational Elites in the Romanian Carpathians Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-13 Lucian Vesalon, Remus Gabriel Anghel
Carpathia—dubbed the “European Yellowstone”—is a private nature conservation project in Romania. Its establishment activates a critical linkage between entrepreneurs of the wilderness and transnational conservation elites. We indicate the contribution of entrepreneurialism to the expansion and adaptation of neoliberal conservation and reveal how biographical contingencies are involved in the making
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Radical Methodological Openness and Method as Politics: Reflections on Militant Research with Squatters in Catalonia Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-12 Mara Ferreri, Melissa García-Lamarca
In 2017, it was estimated that over 87,000 families—around 270,000 people—lived in squatted properties in Spain. Such figures, often used by the media to stigmatise residential occupations and generate moral panic, give an ill-defined yet powerful indication of the prevalence of squatting within and outside organised housing movements. From these came the question: How to elevate the “minor knowledges”
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Bending Possession: How Detroiters Care for Land by Remediating Settler Property Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-08 Nicholas L. Caverly
This article examines how people reconfigure the social, legal, and material claims that settler property relations make to place. It does so through ethnographic and historical attention to small-scale gardens in Detroit, Michigan. When present-day Detroiters transform grassy lots into gardens and places of shared enjoyment, they frequently encounter how antiblack environmental conditions are grafted
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Energy Storage and Environmental Justice: A Critical Examination of a Proposed Pumped Hydropower Facility in Goldendale, Washington Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-11-02 Alida Cantor, Bethani Turley, Katie Maxfield
Renewable energy sources such as solar and wind produce electricity intermittently, creating challenges in balancing electricity supply and demand for increasingly renewable-dominated grids. This is driving efforts to increase energy storage infrastructure, such as pumped hydroelectric power storage (pumped storage). In this research, we examine environmental justice issues in a case study of a proposed
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The Making of a Business Case for Unpaid Care and Domestic Work in the Global South: New Frontiers of Corporate Social Responsibility? Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-26 Catia Gregoratti, Sofie Tornhill
For some decades, feminist scholars have engaged with the new responsibilities that corporations assume to address gender inequalities, often critiquing forms of economic empowerment that ignore the significance of social reproduction. Recently, however, the idea of a business case for unpaid care and domestic work (UCDW) has caught traction, opening up new ways for businesses to showcase responsibilities
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Fantasies of Flows and Containment: The Technopolitics of Security Infrastructures in the Americas Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Alke Jenss
This contribution combines literature on logistics with literature on the articulation between racism and the securitisation of migration. Studying security infrastructures in Mexico in conjunction with the Mesoamerican Project, a massive transnational infrastructure plan, I show how security and trade infrastructures become intertwined in what governments have called a “secure trade corridor” between
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The Vagrancy Concept, Border Control, and Legal Architectures of Human In/Security Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-24 Rayna Rusenko
I answer a call by Nicholas De Genova and Ananya Roy asking scholars to investigate the historical roots of practices of illegalisation (that is, the use of law to render people illegal) and how these practices serve to re/institute a relationality between race and poverty. Using the case of regulations surrounding vagrancy in imperial Japan's metropole and its colony of Taiwan, I call attention to
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Conceptualising US Immigration Detention as Carceral Real Estate Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-19 Lauren L. Martin
The US Immigration and Customs Enforcement operates the largest detention system in the world, holding over 35,000 people in October 2023. The vast majority of this capacity is outsourced to corrections firms, particularly the two largest, CoreCivic and GEO Group. This article analyses how private corrections firms finance US immigrant detention capacity as a specialised asset class of government real
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Latent State Infrastructure and Financialisation: Insight from a Post-Apartheid Public Pension Fund and Real Estate Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-16 Sarita Pillay Gonzalez
South Africa's Government Employees Pension Fund (GEPF) is among the world's largest pension funds, public or private. The pension fund's sizeable coffers reflect reforms to its structure undertaken as a safeguard for apartheid bureaucrats. Today, the fund is entangled in South Africa's financial markets. Through an analysis of the GEPF's investment in real estate, it is shown how investments by a
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Mutual Aid as a Praxis for Critical Environmental Justice: Lessons from W.E.B. Du Bois, Critical Theoretical Perspectives, and Mobilising Collective Care in Disasters Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-18 Rachel G. McKane, Patrick Trent Greiner, David Pellow
We build on the critical environmental justice (CEJ) framework by exploring mutual aid as a means of practising and realising transformative environmental justice that allows activists to build environmentally resilient and just communities beyond the state. We draw on the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, the Black Radical Tradition, and other critical approaches to demonstrate how mutual aid offers a meaningful
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Settler Colonial Beasts: Feral Pigs and Frontier Assemblages in Texas Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-15 Jason Cons, Michael Eilenberg
This essay explores the role of feral pigs in assembling the Texas frontier. Quick to reproduce, highly adaptive, and destroyers of agricultural fields, feral pigs have emerged over the past decade as one of the principal challenges facing agriculture and land management systems in Texas. Yet, more than simply a pest, feral pigs have and continue to be active agents in forging new landscapes, ecologies
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Tourism-Led Rentier Capitalism: Extracting Rent and Value from Tourism Property Investment Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-11 Gertjan Wijburg, Manuel B. Aalbers, Veronica Conte, Arie Stoffelen
A highly heterogenous group of actors develops, owns, manages, and purchases tourism property around the globe. In this paper, we discuss the rise of “tourism-led rentier capitalism”—which is a particular fraction of capital—and its variegated dimensions. Although tourism property investors do not operate as a monolithic bloc or a socio-economic class, they share similar interests and collectively
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Homonationalism on the Defensive: News Media Responses to Nationalist Anti-LGBTQ Attacks in Sweden Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-10-09 Julia Lagerman
Examining how gender and sexuality norms are expressed through nationalist ideology, this article argues that homonationalist hegemony is being reinforced through media representations of nationalist social movements attacking LGBTQ people, events, and symbols. The argument builds on a critical discourse analysis of 320 newspaper articles published between 2016 and 2020. The discourses in the material
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José Martí and Antonio Gramsci: The World as a Radical Geography Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-09-29 Simone Vegliò
This paper lays the ground for a novel discussion on the encounter between José Martí and Antonio Gramsci. It argues that Martí and Gramsci can be profitably and innovatively read together when interrogating the profound “spatial articulations” that animate their political vision. The discussion principally focuses on Martí's concept of Our America and Gramsci's Southern Question. Methodologically
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Who is Entitled to Oppose Planning Decisions? Politics of Rightful Resistance in Tehran Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-09-25 Mojgan Taheri Tafti, Kimia Abdi, Mahdis Khosronezhad, Mahshid Nikbin
People's oppositions to planning decisions are on the rise even in exclusionary-repressive systems. However, in such contexts, decades of dismantling social networks, repressing the circulation of information, and criminalising dissent make oppositions short-lived, fragile, and risky. Rightful resistance, studies suggest, presents a modality of contestation which mitigates such risks. This paper seeks
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“to stop the earthquake”: Palestine and the Settler Colonial Logic of Fragmentation Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-09-22 Jamal Nabulsi
Fragmentation is a key colonial strategy to which Palestinians enact resistance, evident most prominently in the 2021 Unity Intifada. In this article, I take inspiration from such Palestinian resistance to theorise fragmentation as a central logic of Zionist/Israeli settler colonialism. I make three related points. First, I employ the metaphor of the earthquake to consider the fractality of settler
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Racial Frontiers: Hemispheric Logics of Haitians’ Displacement and Asylum in the Americas Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Martha Balaguera, Luisa Farah Schwartzman, Luis van Isschot
While international asylum law includes race as the first protected category—followed by religion, nationality, particular group membership, and political opinion—Haitians’ ongoing racialised persecution and denial of refuge across the Americas reveals the failures of this framework. Drawing on academic literature, documentary evidence, and primary sources, we analyse the racial and neocolonial logics
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Flowing Capital-Disrupted Homes: Financialisation and Maintenance of Rental Housing in Sweden Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-09-20 Defne Kadıoğlu, Ilhan Kellecioğlu
Studies on rental housing financialisation have blossomed over the last decade. Studies are often concerned with issues around affordability and displacement, while less focus has been on how financialisation reconfigures the materials of housing, home, and the residential environment by subordinating maintenance to aggressive and unsustainable renovation strategies. We look at the case of Sweden and
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“What's Wrong with the Elevators”: From Breakdown to Policing in Chicago Public Housing Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-09-04 Madeleine Hamlin
In this paper, I argue that the high-rise elevator comprises a particularly important and yet heretofore undertheorised space for understanding narratives about failure and breakdown in public housing in the US and beyond. Using Chicago as a case study, I draw upon historical newspaper articles and interviews with former public housing tenants, as well as interviews with former police officers who
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Modalities of Conjunctural Analysis: “Seeing the Present Differently” through Global Lenses Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-09-01 Gillian Hart
The sub-title of this essay refers to Antonio Gramsci's concept of “prevision”—understood as neither foresight nor prediction, but a method of political work that enables intervention in the present in order to change it. Prevision forms part of conjunctural analysis, which remains powerfully salient and urgent in our own time. Over the past decade attention to conjunctural analysis has surged across
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Myths and Realities of “Left Behind” and “Levelling Up” Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Rhian E. Jones
The past few years have seen the rediscovery by political and media commentators of areas in post-industrial Britain characterised as “left behind”. It is rarely acknowledged that this attention to regional inequality has only come about after decades of political neglect and cultural erasure of these areas following deindustrialisation. Current ideas about regional inequality and proposed solutions
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A Clear and Present Pedagogy: Teaching About Planetary Crisis (When You're in a Planetary Crisis) Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-08-29 Daniel Chiu Suarez, Cora Kircher, Tara Santi
The task of teaching about acute ecological crisis presents a vital pedagogical challenge and an important provocation for critical scholars. Across various environmental subfields, educators are revisiting fundamental and politically significant questions concerning what to teach, how to teach, and even why to teach as their traditional subject matter transforms around them. In this article, we explore
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Milking Welfare: Bovis Sacer and the Inclusive Thanatopolitics of the Dairy Farm Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-08-17 Evan Klasky, Bilal Butt
Agricultural technologies in dairy farming facilitate increased animal productivity while simultaneously supporting appeals to animal welfare. Dairy producers operationalise these technologies to shape cows’ subjectivities to be compatible with industrial production and consumer preferences. Through this subject formation, cows are incorporated into human society as political subjects, a shift that
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Colonial Continuities in Closure: Indigenous Mine Labour and the Canadian state Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Rebecca Hall, Brandon Pryce
The benefits of employment in resource extraction figure prominently in state rationales for resource extraction. However, in Canada, the site of study, while the worker is a key figure in rationales for extraction, this same worker disappears in state attention to extractive/mine closure. The paper's focus on Indigenous mining labour is driven by a community–university research partnership with Dene
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Assembling Under the Westway: The Emergence of Social Infrastructure in North Kensington, London Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-08-06 Pablo Sendra, Toby Laurent Belson, Marco Thomas Picardi
This paper explores the generative capacity of activist movements defending their community assets from commodification or closure to produce new forms of social infrastructure. We explore this through the case study of activism along the Westway, a motorway in West London. The area has a strong tradition of community activism, particularly in the 1960s and the 2010s. Through a Participatory Action
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The State of Uberisation: Neoliberalism, Smart Urbanism, and the Regulated Deregulation of Toronto's Taxi-cum-Ridehail Market Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Fabian Namberger
In 2016, the City of Toronto legalised the ridehail giant Uber under a particularly Uber-friendly regulatory regime. Rather than understanding this interim outcome along the lines of now widespread narratives of corporate “disruption”, in this article I take up Manuel B. Aalbers’ notion of “regulated deregulation” in order to foreground the state's role as a manically prolific facilitator of early
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The Second Displacement of Refugees: Urban Regeneration Against Commoning Practices in Belgrade's Waterfront Antipode (IF 4.246) Pub Date : 2023-07-30 Charalampos Tsavdaroglou, Maria Kaika
We develop the concept of “second displacement” to symbolise the renewed forms of uprooting that refugees undergo in arrival cities in the name of urban regeneration. Focusing on the eviction of 2,000 refugees from a self-organised settlement in Belgrade's old train station in order to redevelop the site as a luxurious “Waterfront” project, we show how the refugees’ commoning practices and claims for