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...
Read More
The Old New Brutalism? Rekindling Brutalist Ethics from Artwashed Aesthetics
“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...
Read More
Video abstract – Diarmaid Kelliher’s “Constructing a Culture of Solidarity: London and the British Coalfields in the Long 1970s”
Last week on AntipodeFoundation.org we featured all the papers forthcoming in January 2017 in Antipode 49(1). Here we delve a bit deeper, looking at Diarmaid Kelliher’s contribution,...
Read More
New issue of Antipode, out now
The latest issue of Antipode is now available. Volume 48, number 3 (the 44th issue I’ve shepherded to press!?) contains no fewer than 16 papers; it’s a real showcase, exhibiting just how varied...
Read More
Intervention – “F**k the Cupcake Revolution! David Cameron, Samuel Smiles, and the Geographies of Neo-Victorian Thrift”
Alison Hulme https://commoditytactics.wordpress.com/ The homemade poster was clearly visible in the window of a first floor flat as I sat on the top deck of the 185 bus that was jerking its...
Read More
Traditional Markets Under Threat: Why It’s Happening and What Traders and Customers Can Do
We recently launched the 2015/16 call for applications for the Antipode Foundation’s Scholar-Activist Project Awards (see here). The Awards are grants of up to GB£10,000.00 intended to support...
Read More
The London Olympics: Urban Geopolitics – further reading
Some further reading for those interested in yesterday's post, 'The London Olympics: Urban Geopolitics'... Kirsteen Paton, Gerry Mooney and Kim McKee’s ‘Class, Citizenship, and Regeneration:...
Read More
Intervention – The London Olympics: Urban Geopolitics
by Marijn Nieuwenhuis, University of Warwick As the London Olympics 2012 draw to a final close and the city returns to its quotidian routine it is perhaps time to analyse some of the long-term...
Read More