This symposium brings together a group of scholars to discuss Prof. Geraldine Pratt’s monograph Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love (University of Minnesota Press,...
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Book Review Symposium – Geraldine Pratt’s “Families Apart: Migrant Mothers and the Conflicts of Labor and Love”
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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Gramscian Geographies
We've been making connections between Antipode papers and work published in other journals recently, looking at the excellent ACME special issues on anarchist and autonomous geographies and the...
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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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Intervention – Towards a Multi-dimensional Concept of Forced Labour
by Siobhan McGrath, Lancaster University The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently updated its estimate of the number of people worldwide in forced labour. The new estimate is...
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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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New enclosures of the carbon market, Part II: Reimagining the commons
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol In my last post I reflected on a bizarre paradox – the 'carbon credits' with which governments buy out their emissions are providing justification for the...
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This is about our humanity
by Punam Khosla, York University Reflecting on the ‘year of protest’ I am struck by the emphasis of many left commentators. A broad progressive consensus is that capitalist crisis and the...
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