by David Meek, University of Georgia A fundamental principle of critical geography is that maps are embodiments of power, differentially legitimizing particular communities, histories, and practices...
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Critical Cartography as Transformational Learning
Video abstract – Matt Himley talks about 'Regularizing Extraction in Andean Peru: Mining and Social Mobilization in an Age of Corporate Social Responsibility'
Mining and miners have been in the news a lot recently, with the injustices at Lonmin's Marikana mine taking centre stage (see here and here). For resource geographers we think there are connections...
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Rio+20 and the People’s Summit: Dialogic or Disconnected Spaces?
by David Meek, University of Georgia Critical educational scholars have extensively explored the diversity of ways in which people learn within social movements (Welton 1993; Spencer 1995; Walter...
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Video abstract – Phil Steinberg talks about 'Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision'
There's recently been a lot on AntipodeFoundation.org about utopian experiments. For one thing, we published a virtual issue of Antipode, 'Imagining and Enacting Community Economies', all about...
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Jan Satyagraha: Walking for land rights in India
by Naomi Millner, University of Bristol A visitor to Bristol recently turned my attention to a mass demonstration for agrarian reform he has been involved in publicising. Jan Satyagraha...
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Occupy Wall Street and ‘Occupation’
by Kareem Rabie, City University of New York One of the first critiques of OWS from the left has come from Indigenous activists, Palestine solidarity workers, and others questioning the use of the...
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The winter of Occupy Wall Street?
by David Meek, University of Georgia The Occupy Wall Street movement has focused a magnifying lens on the complex relationships between space and resistance. As we pay attention to the evolution of...
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Who cleans up this mess?
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York The short film Trash-Out (freely viewable at http://www.pbs.org/pov/trashout/full.php through August 2014) offers an unflinching look at the nitty...
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This is about our humanity
by Punam Khosla, York University Reflecting on the ‘year of protest’ I am struck by the emphasis of many left commentators. A broad progressive consensus is that capitalist crisis and the...
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Attending to imbricated spaces
by David Meek, University of Georgia Since its first manifestation in September 2011, the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement has occupied communication spaces at various scales. Throughout the world,...
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