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From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-09 Marlotte de Jong, Ember McCoy, Bilal Butt
Critical social science research on conservation practice has long articulated the tactics that emerge out of a history of carcerality, environmental racism, colonialism, and violence against oppressed peoples. Despite these critiques, there has been little change in how conservation is conceptualised and implemented, resulting in the continuation of violence, racism, and injustice. Abolition ecologies
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Offshore Citizenship: “Diversified Citizenship Portfolios” and the Regulatory Arbitrage of Global Wealth Elites Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-09-05 Sarah Kunz
This paper reads the sale of citizenship via citizenship‐by‐investment (CBI) programmes through an offshore lens. Scholarship on offshore industries has long positioned citizenship sales as part of offshore capitalism—without exploring the phenomenon in any depth. Research on CBI, in turn, has with some notable exceptions neglected the phenomenon's offshore nature. This paper argues that CBI is an
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Resisting Post‐Political Adaptation to Climate Change: How a Small Community Stood Up to Big Development Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-29 Michael Mikulewicz
Recent critical scholarship has brought attention to local resistance in the spaces of adaptation, with reported instances of local communities rejecting planned adaptation interventions around the world. As adaptation funding is only expected to grow, so should our understanding of this resistance. In this article, I investigate one such dispute where residents of a small village in São Tomé and Príncipe
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Sports Cages as Social Infrastructure: Sociality, Context, and Contest in Hackney's Cages Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-15 Luke Billingham, Fraser Curry, Stephen Crossley
The concept of social infrastructure has experienced a rapid rise to prominence in recent years, both in academia and in policy. In this article, we explore a case study of cages (also known as Multi‐Use Games Areas) in Hackney, North‐East London. We argue that cages are forms of urban infrastructure which can facilitate multiple forms of sociality—especially for young people—and can thus be deemed
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Uneven Development through Profit Repatriation: How Capitalism's Class and Geographical Antagonisms Intertwine Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-13 Christof Parnreiter, Laszlo Steinwärder, Klara Kolhoff
This article provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of global profit repatriation as a mechanism of uneven development, thereby challenging the development model of Foreign Direct Investment. Between 2005 and 2020, transnational corporations repatriated an annual average of one trillion USD, corresponding each year to 4.2% of the global FDI stock. Net profit flows take on a centripetal
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Making Space for the Maritorio: Raizal Dispossession and the Geopoetic Imagination in the San Andrés Archipelago Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-09 Julie Cupples, Charlotte Gleghorn, Dixie Lee, Raquel Ribeiro
Drawing in part on the work of Édouard Glissant, this article explores how the Raizal population of the San Andrés Archipelago in the Caribbean mobilises the concept of maritorio as an archipelagic geopoetic vessel with emancipatory potential. This concept disrupts dominant land/sea binaries that result from and are rooted in geopolitical mechanisms and colonial fantasies. The San Andrés Archipelago
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Bulbs and Biopower: Managing Produce and Price in the Age of Agri‐Logistics Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-08 Tanya Matthan
This paper deploys the material and discursive politics of storage as a lens into agrarian change in rural India. Focusing on onions (Allium cepa), a price volatile crop and a kitchen staple, it maps out the contested meanings of and motivations for storage among growers, governments, and agri‐logistics companies. Specifically, this paper asks why storage is increasingly positioned as a key solution
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The Social Reproductive Roots of Agrarian Contention: Gendered Labor amid Peasant Struggles in Tunisia Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Dhouha Djerbi
This paper revisits the Tunisian 2010–2011 uprising and its ensuing decade of agrarian contention as a crisis of social reproduction stemming from the combined effects of depletion and dispossession. It traces the lineages of the grievances that continue to animate the Tunisian countryside to the multiple and often enmeshed labours—both productive and reproductive—of peasant and rural women. In underscoring
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A Global Era of Disposability: The Anthropocene, The Apotheosis of Waste Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-05 Mohammed Rafi Arefin, Rosalind Fredericks
This Symposium explores how under‐examined relations of disposability underpin socio‐ecological transformation in the Anthropocene. The Symposium makes four inventions into ongoing debates at the intersection of discard studies and planetary change. First, it illuminates how new frontiers of accumulation work to revalue discards through shifting waste/value dialectics. Second, it encourages analysis
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Transhumance Urbanism as an Urban Otherwise: Inhabiting Agrarian Incompletion at the Intersections of Extended Urbanisation‐Extended Ruralisation Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Nitin Bathla
Amid the ongoing transformation of agrarian territories in peripheral geographies across the world through extended urbanisation, this paper delves into the persistence of peasant and pastoral strategies amidst the closing down effects of land enclosure and fragmentation. Based on ethnographic research conducted with transhumant pastoralists in Delhi National Capital Region, this paper finds that instead
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La femme fait la maison: The Accumulation of Surplus Value through Family Planning in Burkina Faso1 Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 T.D. Harper‐Shipman, Katian Napon
Since the 1960s, demographers, international donors, and governments have calculated the political, economic, and social benefits of modern contraception usage in West Africa. We evidence how family planning technologies (FPTs) that are tethered to population development extract double value (productive and reproductive labour) from Burkinabè women as a method of economic growth. More specifically
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Bureaucratic Politicisation and Insurgent Bureaucrats: A Theoretical Framework Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-18 Walter J. Nicholls, Ian Baran
Municipal bureaucrats in the United States—mostly on the social side of the state (e.g. public health, welfare, educators, housing, and sometimes urban planners) but not exclusively so (e.g. district attorney offices)—have shown growing willingness to engage in political battles within the bureaucracy, connect with social movements, and construct oppositional identities centred on social and racial
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The “Temporal Rift” and the Temporalities of the Capitalist Social Metabolism Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-16 Pedro M. Rey‐Araújo
This paper advances a reading of the social metabolism as a dynamic orchestration of heterogeneous rhythms, encompassing those intrinsic to human bodies and other natural processes, and those of relations mediating both. Contrary to pre‐capitalist societies, as the collective mediation of the social metabolism adopts a capitalist form, it becomes autonomised from its conditions of existence, and a
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Road Corridors as Real Estate Frontiers: The New Urban Geographies of Rentier Capitalism in Africa Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-11 Tom Gillespie, Baraka Mwau
This paper draws on research on infrastructure‐led development and urbanisation in Nairobi to explore the new urban geographies of rentier capitalism in Africa. Under the banner of Kenya's Vision 2030 national development strategy, Nairobi's agrarian hinterlands have been transformed by major road building projects. These initiatives have catalysed a peri‐urban property boom characterised by the conversion
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Resistance Against and Beyond Financialisation from the Vantage Point of Social Reproduction Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Santiago L. del Río
This paper progresses research on resistance in the context of financialisation by drawing on various social reproduction legacies. I explore how social reproduction theory offers conceptual and methodological tools that can deepen research on de‐financialisation and resistance against predatory finance. Expanding upon relational approaches to social reproduction, this paper frames “the financialisation
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Tenants of the World, Unite! From Atomisation to Structural Power in Financialised Tenancy Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-08 Hannah Appel, Alexander Ferrer, Terra Graziani
Recent transformations in the political economy of housing—particularly the corporatisation, concentration, and financialisation of landlording—paradoxically intensify both the atomisation of the tenant experience and the potential for organised tenants to exercise structural power. This potential collective power, however, is not self‐actualising. Building on two years of participatory action research
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Revealing Properties of Citizenship through Landscape: Enacting “Block 16” through Dispossession and Displacement Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-04 Stephen Przybylinski
This paper examines the relationship between property and citizenship by engaging in a genealogy of one property in Portland, Oregon, “Block 16”, which details how this property was first enacted and then maintained into the 21st century. The paper foregrounds how normative definitions of liberal subjectivity were applied to Indigenous peoples originally living on this land, as well as valuations of
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Visually Attending to black Senses of Place Through “Everyday Things” in White City, West London Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-07-01 Nathaniel Télémaque
This paper shares a practice‐related rendering of Katherine McKittrick's conceptional notion “a black sense of place” by reflecting on visual practices adopted in my research project, “Everyday Things: Visualising Young Black Adults’ Experiences in White City”. In this article, I advance a black sense of place to be a conceptual lens that is capable of zooming in and out of the embodied perceptions
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Sustaining Decarbonisation: Energy Storage, Green Extractivism, and the Future of Mining Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-28 Matthew Archer, Filipe Calvão
Within the context of the so‐called green energy transition, the mining industry has successfully repositioned itself as a facilitator of, rather than an impediment to, a sustainable future. Underlying the success of this claim is a discourse of sustainability that, on the one hand, equates sustainability with decarbonisation and, on the other hand, insists that the rapid expansion of renewable energy
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Direct Action at Home: Performative Spaces of Tenant Resistance in Los Angeles Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Faiza Moatasim
Given the rising number of evictions in the United States, self‐organised and housing‐insecure tenants actively fight back against their harassment and displacement. Because of the high rate of informal evictions, housing struggles between tenants and landlords are not only fought in courts; they often take place at the homes that they themselves and their landlords occupy. How do precariously housed
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The Salvage Frontier: Place, Nature, and Neoliberalism in a Small Northern Town Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-06-25 Bruce Erickson
The transition to a neoliberal economy that has been happening in Northern Canada has promised increasing control over resources to residents. Yet, the neoliberal approach carries significant risk, especially as it attempts to extract profit from failed and abandoned public projects—what Anna Tsing calls “salvage accumulation”. In Churchill, Manitoba, the primary economic drivers—shipping and tourism—have
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Tenacity Besides Depletion: Pandemics, Protests, and Workers from the Sri Lankan Apparel Sector Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-20 Kanchana N. Ruwanpura
Sri Lankan apparel has conventionally crafted itself as a niche and ethical supplier. Staying with this record, shifting to PPE (personal protective equipment) production, a tripartite agreement on minimum wages and a furlough scheme were key successes during the pandemic. However, the recurrent absence of living wages resulted in varied worker experiences. I use written testimonies from women garment
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Traversing the Urban Soundscape: Black Sonic Geographies within The Minneapolis Sound Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-16 Zuhri James
This paper illuminates The Minneapolis Sound's emergence from the urban soundscapes of late 20th century Minneapolis. Turning to the 1960s and 1970s, I trace the genre's geohistorical emergence to a Black diasporic community who found within marginality the possibilities to spatialise an experimental world across the urban margins. Disclosing how this experimental world was upheld by improvisatory
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The “Finance‐Extraction‐Transitions Nexus”: Geographies of the Green Transition in the 21st Century Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-06 Tobias Franz, Angus McNelly
The hegemonic understanding of the green transition will require a massive surge in mineral extraction. We contend that this entails wider, radical shifts in 21st century financialised capitalism. While there has been increasing critical interest in the role of finance capital in development, the links between finance, extraction, and the green transition have been largely overlooked. We fill this
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Liminality, Situated Digital Tales, and the Pandemic: Three Cases of Radical Placemaking in Australia Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Kavita Gonsalves, Marcus Foth, Glenda Amayo Caldwell
Settlers of colour occupy a liminal space in the settler colony of Australia, and this liminality was exacerbated during the COVID‐19 pandemic. Through the literature on digital activism, technological immersion, and placemaking, this paper explores Radical Placemaking as a route for culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) people based in Brisbane to stake their right to the city through alternative
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Gendering Toxic Contamination: Toxic Risks, Bodies, and Pregnancies in Gold Mining and Coca Farming Communities in the Bajo Cauca Region Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-05-03 Chiara Chiavaroli
This paper investigates women's everyday reproductive struggles in contexts of toxic contamination and the tensions emerging between toxic exposure and care in women's experiences of motherhood. While scientific framings of reproductive disruptions understand social identities as pre‐existing the experience of toxic risks, in this paper I argue that, in toxic territories, the categories of “contaminating”
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Pursuing Opacity: Geographies of Visibility in the Western Mediterranean Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 José Ciro Martínez
The Moroccan and Spanish governments pursue the visibility of people and things. They observe and survey in order to codify, catalogue, classify, and calculate. Rather than trace the contours of such projects, this paper seeks to provoke a more sustained engagement with modes of errantry that confound their logics of command and control. Building on more than 18 months of multi‐sited ethnography, it
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Infrastructure of Vulnerability, or, How the Fraser Valley Flooded Twice Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-30 Nicholas Gandolfo‐Lucia
In November and December of 2021, the Fraser Valley in southwest British Columbia suffered extreme flooding due to an atmospheric river. Although the event was attributed to climate change, I suggest that the recent floods must be understood through the historical geography of flood control infrastructure in the valley, particularly dikes. In this article, I trace the development of these infrastructures
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“It's about how you use your privilege”: Privilege, Power, and Social (In)justice in Berlin's Community Food Spaces Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Ophélie Véron
This paper explores the role of community food spaces in processes of social change and reproduction. I investigate the mechanisms by which these groups reproduce, exacerbate, or dismantle power relations and socio‐environmental injustices. I systematically examine exclusion and inclusion dynamics and assess what shapes diversity of participation and representation. Contending that diversity is not
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Spatial Theory in Planning Practice? On the Concepts of Space that Made Urban Design a Planning Solution for Segregation in Malmö, Sweden Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-25 Johan Pries
Studying the Sorgenfri urban renewal project in the Swedish city of Malmö, this article suggests that a shift in planning documents reflects a new understanding of segregation containing traces of arguments from theoretical debates in geography. This new understanding of segregation appears informed by geographic debates on encounters, mobility, and boundaries, and implies that segregation is best
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“Captains of the Sands”: Urban Illicit Ecologies and Sandscapes in Rio de Janeiro Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-17 Frank I. Müller
Urban Political Ecology (UPE) has explored human–soil relations, emphasising the political dimensions of environmental degradation in and through urbanisation. However, UPE lacks critical reflection on governance collusions with illicit actors. Bridging this gap, my paper combines UPE with literature on criminal urban governance, focusing on how urban sand shapes illicit urbanisation. To address UPE's
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Ultra-Processed Food, Depletion, and Social Reproduction: A Conceptual Intervention Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-10 Sara Stevano
What we eat and how we think about food and nutrition are undergoing a momentous change, driven by the rise of ultra-processed food. There is a growing body of evidence linking the consumption of ultra-processed food to poor health outcomes. However, the health depleting effects of ultra-processed food go beyond changes in discrete indicators of nutrition and health. Processes of depletion entail social
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Spatial Sovereignties in Squatted “Excess Spaces” Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Ali Jones
This paper proposes the concept of “spatial sovereignties” to understand the governance of squatted spaces, using the case study of Hamburg's autonomous Rote Flora. Referring very loosely to theories of the “excess flesh” of the homo sacer in the state of exception, the paper then inverts these classic theories by instead interrogating a situation where non-state actors establish their own states of
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Becoming‐Interdependent: Democratic Praxis In‐Against‐and‐Beyond Capitalism in Agrifood Collectives Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-04 Jacob Smessaert, Giuseppe Feola
This paper contributes to debates on autonomous geographies by foregrounding and analysing democratic praxis in two grassroots agrifood collectives to interrogate the ways in which it constitutes a vehicle for postcapitalist transformation. We focus on the negotiation and (re)distribution of power (Case Study 1) and the politicisation of ambiguous human–more‐than‐human entanglements (Case Study 2)
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Radical Urban Classrooms: Civic Pedagogies and Spaces of Learning on the Margins of Institutions Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-04-03 Nicola Antaki, Andrew Belfield, Thomas Moore
This paper investigates the relationship between “civic pedagogy” and institutions, through three case studies: the Live Works Castlegate Co-Production at the University of Sheffield; a Collective Design Pedagogy at Muktangan School, India; and the School for Civic Action at the Tate Exchange. The projects aim to build citizens’ agency with transformative urban potential by engaging civic pedagogy
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Organising for System Change: “From the Sea to the City” and the Movement Ecology of Migrant Solidarity in Europe Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-25 Stephan Liebscher
This paper engages with the relationship between dissident European mayors and the migrant solidarity movement in Europe after 2015. With the case study of the coalition “From the Sea to the City”, I examine how its members institutionalise mayors’ dissent at a transnational level through the International Alliance of Safe Harbours. Employing primary empirical data, the study finds that coalition members
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Supply Nets: The Logistics of Seafarer Abandonment Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-24 Jacob Bolton
This paper studies the infrastructural and organisational forms that facilitate labour exploitation within maritime logistics. My entry point is the rising wave of seafarer abandonments, which I approach not as isolated incidents of mismanagement but as an intensification of the flexibilising tendencies underpinning contemporary capitalism. I trace the recent history of these dynamics, examining their
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“We are a nuclear community”: The Ethical, Political Economic, and Social Relations of Canadian Nuclear Waste Siting Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-19 Marissa Bell
Nuclear waste poses unique challenges that transcend everyday temporalities and shape socio-political and economic relations across temporal, spatial, and epistemic dimensions. This paper draws from ethnographic research in Canada, to understand how the political economy, power relations, and ethical landscapes of a specific “nuclear community” inform perception and engagement with a “community-driven”
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Feeling the Vibe: Relations and Praxes of a Black Sense of Place in Oakland, California Antipode (IF 3.6) Pub Date : 2024-03-18 Kaily Heitz
Black artists, activists, and residents describe their sense of place as part of efforts to claim community space in the midst of racialised dispossession in Oakland, California. “Vibe” is a term used to describe this relationship. The author explains the term by drawing on ethnographic and archival data from research conducted in Oakland between 2019 and 2020. This paper explores vibe as the means
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Wild Hogs in the Water: Contested Infrastructural Ecologies of Reservoir Storage in Texas Antipode (IF 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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 3.6) 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