Ståle Holgersen, Department of Social and Economic Geography and Institute for Housing and Urban Research, Uppsala University; stale.holgersen@kultgeog.uu.se The middle class is a key word in...
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Intervention – “The ‘Middle Class’ Does Not Exist: A Critique of Gentrification Research”
Intervention – “Corner Stores, Surveillance, and All Black Afterlives”
by Naya Jones, University of California Santa Cruz; njones6@ucsc.edu As I write, Black Lives Matter protests continue throughout the United States and around the world. All Black Lives Matter...
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Intervention – “The Other Side of The Tracks: Contested Space, Commemoration, and Erasure”
The Talbot Avenue Bridge is contested space. The metal girder bridge was built in 1918 to span the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad tracks in Silver Spring, an unincorporated community in Montgomery...
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Video abstract – “Disability Consciousness on the Frontlines of Urban Struggle” by Mary Jean Hande
As many will know, we’re celebrating 50 years of Antipode in 2019. It will come as no surprise to hear that we’ve been looking back to the journal’s beginnings in the late 1960s and early...
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Intervention – “The Public Spaces of Trump Tower Reflect the Cruelty and Self-Dealing of the Trump Presidency”
Robert Rosenberger Georgia Institute of Technology rosenberger@gatech.edu The Trump administration will be forever remembered, among other things, as one that persecuted already disadvantaged people,...
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The Old New Brutalism? Rekindling Brutalist Ethics from Artwashed Aesthetics
by Oli Mould (Royal Holloway, University of London) The fate of Robin Hood Gardens was sealed a long time ago. Ever since plans were formally submitted for its demolition in 2010, the long drawn-out...
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A new issue and video abstract – “Sovereign Power, Biopower, and the Reach of the West in an Age of Diaspora-Centred Development”
Today we sent our third issue of 2017 to press. Antipode 49(3) is a brilliant snapshot of critical geography today, offering contributions on gentrification and cinema; energy politics and the...
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“Brutalism Redux” – a review, free online article, and event at the Science Museum
Following the publication of Oli Mould’s paper “Brutalism Redux: Relational Monumentality and the Urban Politics of Brutalist Architecture” at the end of last year (freely available here), and...
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Intervention – “Intersectional Contours of Loss and Resistance: Mapping Bay Area Gentrification”
Erin McElroy Doctoral Candidate, Department of Feminist Studies, University of California, Santa Cruz Director, Anti-Eviction Mapping Project,...
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Intervention – “Reclaiming the ‘Liveable City’ as Normative Reference Point: Against Totalising Aspirational Political Discourses”
Steffen Wetzstein (Willy Brandt School of Public Policy, Universität Erfurt) This short commentary takes issue with the rise of totalising aspirational political discourses in urban politics and...
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