Antipode Editorial Collective, May 2025
Antipode’s most recent set of Interventions is an invitation to think geographically about current global transformations. The ongoing genocide in Palestine, the new Cold War, the rise of right-wing authoritarianisms and their alliances (e.g. Trump, Bukele, Milei), the entrenchment of anti-queer and anti-trans violence in the UK and the US, and the racist attacks against Latin American and Caribbean migrants in the US are just a few examples of the shifting world order and its highly uneven geographies. We thus turn to critical and radical geography looking for a better understanding of the conditions of possibility of these transformations, their particular manifestations, and the challenges they pose to Left politics and thought.
We inaugurate this set of interventions with Ayyaz Mallick, member of our Editorial Collective, and his important reflections on the Pakistani–Indian conflict. We welcome contributions of maximum 2,500 words to be reviewed by the Editorial Collective and published on our online platform, AntipodeOnline. We encourage contributors not to shy away from polemical or argumentative interventions—we need strong proposals now more than ever. Ayyaz’s contribution therefore offers a model for public argumentation we would like to encourage. After all, this forum on our website is called “Interventions” for a reason!
***Update, 20 June: the second essay in this series, “Zionism’s Impending Defeat” by Hashem Abushama (University of Oxford), is out now.***
***Update, 8 July: the third essay in this series, “Barra barra mustawtinin: Reading ‘The Wretched of the Earth’ in the Occupied West Bank” by Calico, is out now.***
***Update, 30 July: the fourth essay in this series, “For a Political Geography of Artificial Intelligence: Fighting Ghost Work, Exploitation, and the Making of a Global Digital Underclass” by Richard Kirk (UCLA), is out now***