Noam Leshem (Department of Geography, Durham University) A word came into sudden prominence in Israel on October 7, 2023: hafkara, Hebrew for “abandonment”. It began circulating in...
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Intervention — “States of Uncaring, Abandoned Lives”
Intervention — “Progeny of Empire: Defining Moments of Nation Formation in South Africa and Palestine/Israel”
Gillian Hart (University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg & University of California, Berkeley) On November 2, 1917, British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour wrote to Lord Walter...
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Intervention — “Carlos Walter Porto-Gonçalves: The Decolonial Geography of an Intellectual from Abya Yala”
Renato Emerson dos Santos, Instituto de Pesquisa e Planejamento Urbano e Regional, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro On 6 September 2023, the Brazilian geographer Carlos Walter...
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Intervention Symposium—“Plantation Methodologies: Questioning Scale, Space, and Subjecthood”
Edited and introduced by Alyssa Paredes (University of Michigan), Sophie Chao (University of Sydney), and Andrés León Araya (Universidad de Costa Rica) Introduction After decades of...
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Intervention — “Decolonial Crossroads” by Wangui Kimari
Introduction In the following Intervention, Wangui Kimari reflects on Antipode’s “Decolonial Thinkers from Africa” series, including the interviews with Franklin Obeng-Odoom, Sabelo...
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The 2023 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Decommissioning Anti-Racism: Police Power, State Capture, and Black Radical Traditions”
Adam Elliott-Cooper School of Politics and International Relations Queen Mary University of London If you’ll be attending the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) annual international...
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Intervention — “Trans Liberation in the UK is Under Threat: How Geographers Can Respond”
Jay Todd (University of Glasgow) Trans lives are flourishing with greater visibility now than at any period in our recent history. Yet in the UK, trans and gender diverse people and...
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Intervention — “Statement by Resistance in Brooklyn: Anti-War, Anti-Imperialist, Anti-Fascist”
Resistance in Brooklyn, a New York-based anti-imperialist/anti-racist collective and affinity group operating since 1992, has long worked as white comrades under the leadership of the Puerto...
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Intervention – “Hosting for the UK’s ‘Homes for Ukraine’ Scheme”
Kathy Burrell (Department of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool) When Russia invaded Ukraine on 24 February 2022 a devastating wave of human suffering was set in motion. By 8...
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“A Practical Explanation: How Adequate is it to Think from Disciplines?”—An Interview with Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, Part 2
Introduction Below we share Part 2 of our interview with Sabelo Ndlovu-Gatsheni, in which we continue our discussion of his recently co-edited volume, Marxism and Decolonization in the 21st...
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