Forthcoming in print in the new year in Antipode 46(1), Carrie Mott and Susan Roberts' paper 'Not Everyone Has (the) Balls: Urban Exploration and the Persistence of Masculinist Geography' has been...
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Critical dialogue – Urban Exploration, Subject-Bodies, and the Politics of Difference
Featured video – 'A Buzz in My Hub: Gender, Race, and Performing the Creative City'
by Heather McLean, York University Toby Sharp is an urban philosopher, a think tank hipster, a TED-talking ‘creative city’ guru with the vision to transform any city. A composite character...
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International Women's Day
A Friday afternoon reading list for International Women's Day... Melissa W. Wright's 2010 Antipode RGS-IBG lecture, 'Wars of Interpretations', stages a dialogue among activists in northern Mexico and...
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Video abstract – Kate Maclean talks about 'Gender, Risk and Micro-financial Subjectivities'
Here we have the second video abstract introducing a paper forthcoming in Antipode 45:2 - Kate Maclean talking about her 'Gender, Risk and Micro-financial Subjectivities'. Kate is a lecturer in the...
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Review essay – “Recuperating Commodity Studies for a Marxist Political Economy: Possibilities and Limitations”
by Marion Werner, University at Buffalo, SUNY Ben Selwyn, Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. ISBN...
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Aishwarya Rai and critical geographies of fat/bigness/corpulence
by Andy Davies, University of Liverpool The British press last month took a perverse delight in pointing out a perceived ‘backlash’ in India against the Bollywood film star Aishwarya Rai and her...
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Virtual issue – 'Boys Town Redux: a supplement'
Our colleagues over at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space recently published a virtual issue entitled ‘Boys town redux’. The title comes from a Society and Space essay published in...
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Video abstract – Jessica Pykett talks about 'The new maternal state'
Is the state becoming too much like your nanny? Does it act like your dad or more like your uncle? Does it tell you what to do, protect you from harm, or nurture you just like a mother? Which...
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