Just in time for this year's festival of self-organisation on May 1st, International Workers' Day, we're pleased to present a book review symposium on James C. Scott's Two Cheers for Anarchism....
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Book review symposium – James C. Scott’s “Two Cheers for Anarchism”
Book Review – Dave Featherstone on Carl Griffin’s “The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest”
Here Dave Featherstone (School of Geographical and Earth Sciences, University of Glasgow) reviews Carl Griffin's The Rural War: Captain Swing and the Politics of Protest, which was published last...
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New Antipode Book Series title – ‘The Down-deep Delight of Democracy’
Last month saw the release of a new title in the Antipode Book Series - Mark Purcell's The Down-deep Delight of Democracy. In the book - chapter one of which can be read here - Mark argues that the...
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Symposium on PyGyRG's 'Communifesto for Fuller Geographies' – Authors' reply to critical responses
A couple of months ago we continued our symposium series* by posting the Participatory Geographies Research Group's 'Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security' together with a set...
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Symposium on the Participatory Geographies Research Group’s ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security’
We're delighted to be continuing our symposium series with this collection of responses to the Participatory Geographies Research Group’s ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual...
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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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Yo: are we (still) racist?
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley When I teach classes about race and geography, I often use the civil rights movement to start a conversation about the ways in which racial politics and spatial...
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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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Virtual issue – 'The protester'
George W. Bush, like Stalin (1939 and 1942) and Reagan (1980 and 1983) got it twice (2000 and 2004). Bush snr (1990) and Hitler (1938) were one-time winners. Good guys get it sometimes, too: Martin...
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