Here it is, Antipode 46(4), and it’s a good ‘un…
The first six papers form a superb symposium; organised by Durham University’s Gordon MacLeod and Colin McFarlane, ‘Grammars of Urban Injustice‘ includes:
Does the Punitive Need the Supportive? A Sympathetic Critique of Current Grammars of Urban Injustice by Geoff DeVerteuil;
Modes of Attentiveness: Reading for Difference in Geographies of Homelessness by Jon May and Paul Cloke;
The Urban Injustices of New Labour’s “New Urban Renewal”: The Case of the Aylesbury Estate in London by Loretta Lees;
The Myth of “Broken Britain”: Welfare Reform and the Production of Ignorance by Tom Slater;
From Politicization to Policing: The Rise and Decline of New Social Movements in Amsterdam and Paris by Justus Uitermark and Walter Nicholls; and
Building a City For “The People”: The Politics of Alliance-Building in the Sydney Green Ban Movement by Kurt Iveson.
The next six contribute to some long-running conversations in critical geography:
Rent, Real Estate, and Flood Mitigation in New Orleans East by Vern Baxter;
Why Indians Vote: Reflections on Rights, Citizenship, and Democracy from a Tamil Nadu Village by Grace Carswell and Geert De Neve;
On the Performativity of Pill Pricing: Theory and Reality in the Economics of Global Pharmaceuticalization by Brett Christophers;
How Finance Penetrates its Other: A Cautionary Tale on the Financialization of a Dutch University by Ewald Engelen, Rodrigo Fernandez and Reijer Hendrikse;
Urban Community Gardens as Spaces of Citizenship by Rina Ghose and Margaret Pettygrove; and
Primitive Accumulation and the Production of Abstract Space: Nineteenth-century Mire Reclamation on Gotland by Tom Mels.
Reblogged this on Progressive Geographies and commented:
New issue of Antipode, with a theme section organised by two of my old Durham colleagues, and including a paper by a colleague from my early days at Durham.