Volume 56, Issue 6 November 2024

I’m writing this on the eve of Peer Review Week—an annual event that this year is dedicated to the theme “Innovation and Technology in Peer Review”. I started work in Antipode‘s editorial office in 2007 (which makes this issue my 92nd!?), way before technologies like ScholarOne Manuscripts came online. These technologies are far from perfect—in fact, they can be maddening at times—but they’re essential in a world that sees the number of submissions and publications rising year after year. Publishers tell me that new systems will be launched in the coming months as the old struggle to cope with increasing volumes, and I hope that for all of us these innovations help rather than hinder. Whatever happens, amidst this change at least one thing will remain: here at Antipode we firmly believe that strong peer reviewing is perhaps the single most important element in ensuring the quality and relevance of articles in the journal. Technology and innovation matter, but it’s people and relationships that keep the good ship Antipode afloat.

Our commitment to publishing the very best research and scholarship—writing that is politically-engaged, timely, and passionate, and done with theoretical and empirical rigor—would falter were it not for the time and effort of referees such as those listed below. We say this every year, but we really couldn’t do it without our community of dedicated reviewers—almost 600 of them between July 2023 and June 2024. It’s been a pleasure to work with them, and on behalf of the journal’s Editorial Collective, the Antipode Foundation’s trustees, and all our authors, I’d like to thank them again for their generosity and goodwill.

Andy Kent, Managing Editor , 20th September 2024

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