Olivia Butler (Department of Social and Economic Geography, Uppsala University) Speaking of the gig economy conjures images of dystopic futures with isolated, overworked, and underpaid...
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Intervention – “Micro-War: How Russia are using Gig Platforms for Reconnaissance”
Video Abstract – “The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour”
Forthcoming in Antipode 54(1) in January 2022, and available open access now, David Bissell’s “The Anaesthetic Politics of Being Unaffected: Embodying Insecure Digital Platform Labour” builds...
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Intervention – “Holding Space for Alternative Futures in Academia and Beyond”
Sophie Pascoe, Anna Sanders, Andrea Rawluk, Paula Satizábal and Tessa Toumbourou (University of Melbourne; [email protected]) ***Una versión en español de esta...
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Dropping the China and Picking Up Some of the Pieces: Neoliberalism, Social Vulnerability, and “Residual Benevolence”
Sam Scott, Kenny Lynch and Rachel Bennett Geography, School of Natural and Social Sciences, University of Gloucestershire Introduction Building upon recent research published in Antipode...
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New title in the Antipode Book Series – Marion Werner's Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean
This month we've published a new title in the Antipode Book Series—Marion Werner's Global Displacements: The Making of Uneven Development in the Caribbean. Challenging the main ways we debate...
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Intervention – "Vernacular Values: Remembering Ivan Illich" by Andy Merrifield
by Andy Merrifield* I’ve been revisiting the great maverick radical Ivan Illich, who died in 2002, aged 76. Illich was an Austrian who had no real homeland, a Jew who became a Catholic, a Priest...
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Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Awards 2013/14 – the results
The Foundation's trustees held their AGM at the end of last month, and on the agenda were the Scholar-Activist Project and International Workshop Awards. This year we received 111 applications for...
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Intervention – Resisting Austerity in Crisis-Hit Southern EU Countries: The Case of Greek Non-Appointed Faculty Members
by Stelios Gialis, Hellenic Open University / University of Georgia “Now that we have overcome the hardship of the mountains we need to subdue the adversities of the valleys…” Bertolt...
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Intervention – Towards a Multi-dimensional Concept of Forced Labour
by Siobhan McGrath, Lancaster University The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has recently updated its estimate of the number of people worldwide in forced labour. The new estimate is...
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