“What if we were to accept that the goal of thinking is not to extend knowledge by confirming what we already know, that the world is a place of domination and oppression? What if instead we...
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Virtual issue – ‘Imagining and Enacting Community Economies’
Video abstract – Susanne Soederberg talks about 'The US Debtfare State and the Credit Card Industry'
We've added some great papers to our Early View site recently. Early View is where we publish versions of record online before inclusion in an issue of Antipode. We only make available the 'final,...
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Video abstract – Pauline McGuirk and Phillip O’Neill talk about 'Critical geographies with the state: The problem of social vulnerability and the politics of engaged research'
"The debate over relevance in geography was not really about relevance (whoever heard of irrelevant human activity?), but about whom our research was relevant to..." David Harvey's (1974: 23) lesson,...
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Life and time(s) in the neoliberal university: Tell me about it (seriously, do)
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Last semester I spent one night a week sleeping on the floor in a small, windowless student office at my university. I had an adjunct teaching load...
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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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Intervention – We have never been neoliberal
by Kean Birch, York University This is a slightly revised version of an article that originally appeared on the New Left Project website This article was originally written as a response to a piece...
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Leaning into the blues epistemology
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley There was a terrific session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers this year that looked at the life and work of Clyde Adrian Woods, a...
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Video abstract – Nausheen Anwar talks about 'State Power, Civic Participation and the Urban Frontier'
Issue 3 of Antipode's 44th volume will be out next month, and in it we have papers on worker co-operatives and spaces of possibility; actor-network theory and the politics of resistance; emissions...
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Intervention – Where’s our agency? The role of grading in the neoliberalization of public universities
by Culum Canally, Wilfrid Laurier University Over the last several years I have been involved in numerous discussions and academic panels that lament the reduction in public funding and simultaneous...
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Neoliberal Urbanism – A Symposium with Nik Theodore, Neil Brenner and Jamie Peck
To mark the ten-year anniversary of Spaces of Neoliberalism: Urban Restructuring in North America and Western Europe - an Antipode Book Series title edited by Neil Brenner and Nik Theodore - the...
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