Review essay – “Recuperating Commodity Studies for a Marxist Political Economy: Possibilities and Limitations”

by Marion Werner, University at Buffalo, SUNY Ben Selwyn, Workers, State and Development in Brazil: Powers of Labour, Chains of Value. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012. ISBN...
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Graduate Student Scholarship 2012/13 – 'Territories of Life and Death on a Colombian Frontier'

Here the winner of the 2012/13 Graduate Student Scholarship, Teo Ballvé (Department of Geography, University of California Berkeley), discusses his doctoral research 'Territories of Life and Death...
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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,...
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Video abstract – Nausheen Anwar talks about 'State Power, Civic Participation and the Urban Frontier'

Issue 3 of Antipode's 44th volume will be out next month, and in it we have papers on worker co-operatives and spaces of possibility; actor-network theory and the politics of resistance; emissions...
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'This is about our humanity' redux

Those who read Punam Khosla’s first post, ‘This is about our humanity’, should find this important report from the Real News Network interesting. In the video below, ‘Egyptian women demand...
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Video abstract – Jessica Pykett talks about 'The new maternal state'

Is the state becoming too much like your nanny? Does it act like your dad or more like your uncle? Does it tell you what to do, protect you from harm, or nurture you just like a mother? Which...
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