Free ebook (and a paperback for your shelf?) - “The Revolutionary Imperative: Engaging the Work of Neil Smith”

You might have noticed that at the end of January we published “Supplement S1” of Antipode’s 49^th volume – The Revolutionary Imperative: Engaging the Work of Neil Smith, edited by Nik Heynen, Andrew Kent, Katherine McKittrick, Vinay Gidwani and Wendy Larner. Considering the entire range of Smith’s oeuvre, it consists of newly commissioned essays by comrades from across the human sciences. And thanks to the support of the Antipode Foundation, the online version of The Revolutionary Imperative is free to download, and a print version is available to buy for just GBP £7.

Whether writing about gentrification or nature, the production of space or the politics of scale, uneven development or public space, globalisation or revolution, the geographer Neil Smith was nothing if not provocative. Neither Festschrift nor hagiography, The Revolutionary Imperative critically engages Neil’s work–not to unpick the rich tapestry, but to draw the threads out and spin them on in new directions.

We realise that you don’t need a paperbound copy, but many of us would like one, and as Walter Benjamin once said there’s something radical about a “relationship to objects which does not emphasise their functional, utilitarian value–that is, their usefulness”. The Antipode Foundation won’t make any money out of sales, but you’ll be critiquing the present by parting with some cash?! And if you’re strictly 21^stcentury, the cover* and essays are available as pdfs here and here respectively: