Intervention – “Transitioning From Hope to Optimism and Back Again”

Hanna A. Ruszczyk (Durham University; [email protected]) and Ramjee Bhandari (University of Glasgow; [email protected]) Introduction In this Intervention, we consider...
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Intervention – “Changing the Question from ‘The End of Austerity?’ to ‘What Ends in Austerity?’”

Ruth Raynor School of Architecture, Planning, and Landscape, Newcastle University [email protected] A short break from ceaseless punditry on “Brexit” was given over to chancellor...
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Video abstract – Mark Griffiths’s “Hope in Hebron: The Political Affects of Activism in a Strangled City”

Forthcoming in Antipode volume 49, issue 3 this June, and available online now, Mark Griffiths’s “Hope in Hebron: The Political Affects of Activism in a Strangled City” is the latest in a...
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Intervention – "Reclaiming Hope Within the Geopolitics of Economic Bullying: The Case of SYRIZA and Post-Referendum Greece"

by Maria Pentaraki, Queen's University Belfast ([email protected]), and Janet Speake, Liverpool Hope University ([email protected]) “When the ‘OXI-NO’ vote in the referendum became a...
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Intervention – "Finding Hope Without Salvation in Mad Max: Fury Road"

Finding Hope Without Salvation in Mad Max: Fury Road by Corin de Freitas, University of British Columbia The recently released "Mad Max: Fury Road" follows the spectacular...
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Intervention – “Future Shock” by Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Speculating on the future, especially on the political future—and especially especially on a Left political future—is...
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Intervention – 'Doing the Right Thing in Detroit' by Andy Merrifield

“Neutrality isn’t cool” -- Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Detroit Recorder’s Court, 1980 A little while ago, I participated in an evening of revolutionary politics at the Roxy Bar and...
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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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