By Ronnie Macdonald from Chelmsford, United Kingdom (Auckland Harbour View 09) [CC BY 2.0 (httpcreativecommons.orglicensesby2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

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...
Read More

Rio+20, climate change, and critical scholarship: Beyond the critique of ‘green neoliberalism’?

by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota According to critical accounts of the recent Rio+20 summit, the results of the convention were predictable: failure to reach binding agreements; a lack of...
Read More

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,...
Read More

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...
Read More

Author interview – Fenda Akiwumi speaks about ‘Global incorporation and local conflict: Sierra Leonean mining regions’

The third issue of Antipode's 44th volume is out now. We start on an introspective note with interventions on the sixth International Conference of Critical Geography and knowledge production and...
Read More