by Rhys Machold, Balsillie School of International Affairs Following the recent attacks on the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo and a kosher grocery store in Paris, a political intervention...
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Intervention – “Re-enacting Israel’s Counter-terror Omnipotence: An Opening”
Antipode volume 47, issue 2 – out now
It's the first week of February and we've just published our March issue (!?)-Antipode 47:2. As you'll see, there are some superb essays in this issue, and we'd like to take this opportunity to make...
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Ferguson and beyond – some resources of critique
For those struggling to understand and explain ongoing events in Ferguson and elsewhere, here are some works for thinking with. If you'd like to suggest others, please get in touch. Angela Davis,...
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Intervention – 'Ghosts in the Machine: Drone Warfare will Haunt the Future'
by Ian G. R. Shaw, University of Glasgow How did the planet become a robotic hunting ground? The grip of a single nation over the world is a fantasy as old as empire. But in the past decade the...
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What’s so funny about peace, love and understanding anyway? A response to Joel Wainwright (with apologies to Elvis Costello)
Last week we published a powerful intervention by Joel Wainwright, “A remarkable disconnect”: On violence, military research, and the AAG. 'A remarkable disconnect' are Eric Sheppard's words,...
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Intervention – '“A remarkable disconnect”: On violence, military research, and the AAG' by Joel Wainwright
Joel Wainwright - Ohio State University geographer, author of Geopiracy: Oaxaca, Militant Empiricism, and Geographical Thought (2012, Palgrave Macmillan), Decolonizing Development: Colonial Power and...
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Intervention – Remote Sensing as Remote Control? A Political Geography of EU Border Surveillance
by Adam Levy, University of Colorado at Boulder When the EU received the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize for advancing “democracy and human rights in Europe”, it joined a group whose more incongruous...
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Intervention – Homeland Security and the Precarity of Life in the Borderlands
by Geoffrey Boyce (University of Arizona) and Jill Williams (Clark University) In Precarious Life, Judith Butler (2004) argues for a feminist transnational politics based on the precarity of life -...
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Society and Space mini forum – 'Militarism?'
Our colleagues over at Environment and Planning D: Society and Space have just published an excellent 'mini forum' on their open site. Entitled 'Militarism?', the forum includes pieces from members...
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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...
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