James Ferguson, Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution, Durham: Duke University Press, 2015. ISBN: 978-0-8223-5895-4 (cloth); ISBN: 978-0-8223-5886-2 (paper) Editor’s...
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Book Review Symposium – James Ferguson’s “Give a Man a Fish: Reflections on the New Politics of Distribution”
A new issue and video abstract – “Sovereign Power, Biopower, and the Reach of the West in an Age of Diaspora-Centred Development”
Today we sent our third issue of 2017 to press. Antipode 49(3) is a brilliant snapshot of critical geography today, offering contributions on gentrification and cinema; energy politics and the...
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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...
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Book Review Symposium – Andrew Brooks’ “Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes”
Andrew Brooks, Clothing Poverty: The Hidden World of Fast Fashion and Second-Hand Clothes, London: Zed Books, 2015. ISBN: 9781783600670 (paper); ISBN: 9781783600687 (cloth) Editor’s...
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Video abstract – Jordanna Matlon talks about 'Narratives of Modernity, Masculinity, and Citizenship Amid Crisis in Abidjan's Sorbonne'
In this video Jordanna Matlon (Institute for Advanced Study in Toulouse) discusses her article, forthcoming in Antipode 46:3, ‘Narratives of Modernity, Masculinity, and Citizenship amid Crisis in...
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2014 – a new year and a new issue
It's been off the press for just under 24 hours so it's not too hot to handle; time to open up Antipode 46:1, the bumper (and open access) first issue of 2014... We start with Gayatri Chakravorty...
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Video abstract – Vera Chouinard talks about 'Precarious Lives in the Global South: On Being Disabled in Guyana'
Recently published online, and forthcoming in print in Antipode 46(2), Vera Chouinard's 'Precarious Lives in the Global South: On Being Disabled in Guyana' begins with an simple observation: most of...
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Video abstract – Paul Jackson talks about 'The Crisis of the "Disadvantaged Child": Poverty Research, IQ, and Muppet Diplomacy in the 1960s'
The first issue of next year's volume is almost ready for the printers - and is looking great. We've got Gayatri Spivak's 2012 Antipode AAG Lecture 'Scattered Speculations on Geography' and papers on...
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Antipode at the 2013 AAG
Don't forget that Christian Parenti will be giving this year’s Antipode Lecture at the AAG annual meeting in Los Angeles on Wednesday 10 April, 16:40 - 18:20 (Emerald Bay, Westin, Level 3)....
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Welfare Reform and the Production of Ignorance
Welfare benefits in the UK have in recent years risen faster than wages. So the coalition government introduced the Welfare Benefits Uprating Bill - which passed comfortably in the Commons earlier...
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