Mining and miners have been in the news a lot recently, with the injustices at Lonmin's Marikana mine taking centre stage (see here and here). For resource geographers we think there are connections...
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Video abstract – Matt Himley talks about 'Regularizing Extraction in Andean Peru: Mining and Social Mobilization in an Age of Corporate Social Responsibility'
Video abstract – Matt Baillie Smith and Katy Jenkins talk about 'Existing at the Interface: Indian NGO Activists as Strategic Cosmopolitans'
“...have a culture of making it look easy, and of concealing as much as possible ‘the raw material of poetry in all its rawness’” - Natalia Cecire, Arcade This will ring all too true for...
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Video abstract – Phil Steinberg talks about 'Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision'
There's recently been a lot on AntipodeFoundation.org about utopian experiments. For one thing, we published a virtual issue of Antipode, 'Imagining and Enacting Community Economies', all about...
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Video abstract – Anna Laing talks about 'Beyond the Zeitgeist of "Post-neoliberal" Theory in Latin America: The Politics of Anti-colonial Struggles in Bolivia'
We've recently published some more forthcoming articles ahead of print on our 'Early View' site. There's everything from colonialism and the Canadian diamond industry, community struggles for...
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Video abstract – Susanne Soederberg talks about 'The US Debtfare State and the Credit Card Industry'
We've added some great papers to our Early View site recently. Early View is where we publish versions of record online before inclusion in an issue of Antipode. We only make available the 'final,...
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Video abstract – Pauline McGuirk and Phillip O’Neill talk about 'Critical geographies with the state: The problem of social vulnerability and the politics of engaged research'
"The debate over relevance in geography was not really about relevance (whoever heard of irrelevant human activity?), but about whom our research was relevant to..." David Harvey's (1974: 23) lesson,...
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Video abstract – Peter Kraftl talks about 'Utopian promise or burdensome responsibility? A critical analysis of the UK government’s Building Schools for the Future policy'
Here, in the last of our video abstracts from Antipode 44:3, University of Leicester geographer Peter Kraftl talks about his paper 'Utopian promise or burdensome responsibility? A critical analysis...
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Video abstract – Leah Horowitz talks about 'Translation Alignment: Actor-Network Theory, Resistance, and the Power Dynamics of Alliance in New Caledonia'
Last week we reiterated how here at AntipodeFoundation.org we welcome what political scientists and academic bloggers Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson call the communication of “bottom-line...
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Video abstract – Janelle Cornwell talks about ‘Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility’
Hot on the heels of Staff Reporter Jesse Goldstein's two-part essay on the OWS Screenprinters Coop and Guild which explores questions of markets, commons, and alternative ways of organising economic...
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Video abstract – Nausheen Anwar talks about 'State Power, Civic Participation and the Urban Frontier'
Issue 3 of Antipode's 44th volume will be out next month, and in it we have papers on worker co-operatives and spaces of possibility; actor-network theory and the politics of resistance; emissions...
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