Antipode Book

In this cutting-edge volume, leading scholars examine a diverse range of environmental inequalities from around the world. • Shows how far the field has moved beyond its original focus on uneven distributions of pollution in the USA • Considers the influence of critical geographical and social theory on environmental justice studies • Examines a range of possibilities for future research directions • Explores the challenges of investigating and pursuing environmental justice at a time of rapid economic and environmental change

This groundbreaking book brings the study of whiteness and postcolonial perspectives to bear on debates about urban change. • A thought-provoking contribution to debates about urban change, race and cosmopolitan urbanism • Brings the study of whiteness to the discipline of geography, questioning the notion of white ethnicity • Engages with Indigenous peoples' experiences of whiteness—past and present, and with theoretical postcolonial perspectives • Uses Sydney as an example of a 'city of whiteness', considering trends such as Sydney's 'SoHo Syndrome' and the 'Harlemisation' of the Aboriginal community

The book is an analysis of cultural, social as well as political economic expressions of neoliberalization and argues for an appreciation of the relational geographies of neoliberalization. • In-depth empirical research spanning a variety of world regions • A range of topics including homelessness, comparative politics, economic development and social policy • Reviews how neoliberalism is enacted as a way to highlight the complexity and contingency of this economic model • Engages in debates within anthropology, gender studies, geography, health studies, international studies, planning, political science and sociology

“Threads of Labour” presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations and makes sense of global supply chains from the bottom up. • Presents new empirical research by a network of garment workers' support organizations in ten different locations in Asia, Europe and Mexico. • Creates a blueprint for conducting worker-orientated action research in order to better understand and resist the negative impact of globalization on labour. • Ensures that workers' voices reach those who are already trying to reconfigure global capitalism in more humane directions. • Explores the ways in which workers might begin to develop new forms of organization that are more suited to securing gains in the global garment industry. • Bridges the gap between activist and academic research, improving the conversation between these two groups.

Decolonizing Development investigates the ways colonialism shaped the modern world by analyzing the relationship between colonialism and development as forms of power. • Based on novel interpretations of postcolonial and Marxist theory and applied to original research data • Amply supplemented with maps and illustrations • An intriguing and invaluable resource for scholars of postcolonialism, development, geography, and the Maya.

“Redundant Masculinities?” investigates the links between the so-called 'crisis of masculinity' and contemporary changes in the labour market through the lives of younworking-classss men. • Allows the voices of poorly-educated young men to be heard. • Looks at how the labour market is changing. • Emphasises the social construction of gender and racial identities. • Dispels popular myths about the crisis in masculinity.

A cross-disciplinary collection of 20 essays describing the journey to public scholarship, exploring the pleasures and perils associated with breaching the town-gown divide. • Includes contributions from departments of geography, comparative literature, sociology, communications, history, English, public health, and biology • Discusses their efforts to reach beyond the academy and to make their ideas and research broadly accessible to a wider audience • Opens the way for a new kind of democratic politics-one based on grounded concepts and meaningful social participation • Includes deeply personal accounts about the journey to becoming a public scholar and to intervening politically in the world, while remaining within a university system • Provides a broad prescription for social change, both within and outside the university

Claims have been made on the emergence of a new labour internationalism in response to the growing insecurity created by globalization. However, when persons face conditions of insecurity they often turn inwards. The book contains a warning and a sign of hope. Some workers become fatalistic, even xenophobic. Others are attempting to globalize their own struggles. • Examines the claim that a new labour internationalism is emerging by grounding the book in evidence, rather than assertion • Analyzes three distinct places—Orange, Australia; Changwon, South Korea; and Ezakheni, South Africa—and how they dealt with manufacturing plants undergoing restructuring • Explores worker responses to rising levels of insecurity and examines preconditions for the emergence of counter-movements to such insecurities Highlights the significance of 'place' and 'scale', and demonstrates how the restructuring of multi-national corporations, and worker responses to this, connect the two concepts

Through a series of case studies from around the world, Capitalism and Conservation presents a critique of conservation's role as a central driver of global capitalism. • Features innovative new research on case studies on the connections between capitalism and conservation drawn from all over the world • Examines some of our most popular leisure pursuits and consumption habits to uncover the ways they drive and deepen global capitalism • Reveals the increase in intensity and variety of forms of capitalist conservation throughout the world

“The New Carbon Economy” provides a critical understanding of the carbon economy. It offers key insights into the constitution, governance and effects of the carbon economy, across a variety of geographical settings. • Examines different dimensions of the carbon economy from a range of disciplinary angles in a diversity of settings • Provides ways for researchers to subject claims of newness and uniqueness to critical scrutiny • Historicizes claims of the 'newness' of the carbon economy • Covers a range of geographical settings including Europe, the US and Central America

This unique collection is the first to bring attention to Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates. Presenting a substantially different reading to Gramsci scholarship, the collection forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory. • Offers the first sustained attempt to foreground Antonio Gramsci's work within geographical debates • Demonstrates how Gramsci articulates a rich spatial sensibility whilst developing a distinctive approach to geographical questions • Presents a substantially different reading of Gramsci from dominant post-Marxist perspectives, as well as more recent anarchist and post-anarchist critiques • Builds on the emergence of Gramsci scholarship in recent years, taking this forward through studies across multiple continents, and asking how his writings might engage with and animate political movements today • Forges a new approach within human geography, environmental studies and development theory, building on Gramsci's innovative philosophy of praxis

“Money and Finance After the Crisis” provides a critical multi-disciplinary perspective on the post-crisis financial world in all its complexity, dynamism and unpredictability. Contributions illuminate the diversity of ways in which money and finance continue to shape global political economy and society. • A multidisciplinary collection of essays that study the geographies of money and finance that have unfolded in the wake of the financial crisis • Contributions discuss a wide range of contemporary social formations, including the complexities of modern debt-driven financial markets • Chapters critically explore proliferating forms and spaces of financial power, from the realms of orthodox finance capital to biodiversity conservation • Contributions demonstrate the centrality of money and finance to contemporary capitalism and its political and cultural economies

“Enterprising Nature” explores the rise of economic rationality in global biodiversity law, policy and science. • Examines disciplinary apparatuses, ecological-economic methodologies, computer models, business alliances, and regulatory conditions creating the conditions in which nature can be produced as enterprising • Relates lively, firsthand accounts of global processes at work drawn from multi-site research in Nairobi, Kenya; London, England; and Nagoya, Japan • Assesses the scientific, technical, geopolitical, economic, and ethical challenges found in attempts to 'enterprise nature' • Investigates the implications of this 'will to enterprise' for environmental politics and policy

Commissioned to celebrate the 40th year of “Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography”, this book evaluates the role of the critical social scientist and how the point of their work is not simply to interpret the world but to change it • Brings together leading critical social scientists to consider the major challenges of our time and what is to be done about them • Applies diagnostic and normative reasoning to momentous issues including the global economic crisis, transnational environmental problems, record levels of malnourishment, never ending wars, and proliferating natural disasters • Theoretically diverse-a range of perspectives are put to work ranging from Marxism and feminism to anarchism • The chapters comprise advanced but accessible analyses of the present and future world order

"This timely book carefully interrogates the increasingly fraught intersections of the digital, the city, and democracy. It is a book that will endure, bristling as it is with thoughtful reflection and insight on the democratic challenges that unfold amidst the ordinary, troubled and generative digital worlds of cities as different as Madrid, Taipei and Helsinki. Amidst the work of policymakers, activists, and engineers, what emerges is a hopeful exploration of what 'digital democracy platforms' might enable." -Professor Colin McFarlane, Durham University "This vital book moves beyond a universal analysis of the effects of social media platforms on liberal democracy. Through an in-depth examination of civic platforms in Finland, Spain and Taiwan, Tseng provides a compelling and nuanced empirical and theoretical analysis of the contingent relationship between platforms, place and democracy." -Professor Rob Kitchin, Maynooth University Reimagining Democracy in the Digital and Urban Age How can democracy adapt and thrive in a world reshaped by artificial intelligence and digital platforms? In Liquid Democracy, author Yu-Shan Tseng offers a bold new framework for understanding democracy as a dynamic, fluid process. Challenging the idea that AI and digital tools are inherently anti-democratic, this innovative volume bridges theory and practice to investigate various "liquid conditions," a novel concept capturing how political action flows and transforms like water within the intersections of urban spaces and digital technologies. Through an in-depth comparative study of three groundbreaking digital democracy platforms-Decide Madrid in Madrid, OmaStadi in Helsinki, and vTaiwan in Taipei-Tseng explores how digital platforms can foster participatory governance, pluralism, and alternative democratic futures. In-depth chapters critically examine the interactions between humans, algorithms, and urban systems, revealing how digital tools reconfigure the boundaries of political participation, decision-making, and collective action. Throughout the text, Tseng offers fresh insights into how democracy emerges under contingent conditions shaped by technology and geography. Drawing from years of ethnographic fieldwork, Liquid Democracy is essential reading for master's and PhD students in geography, political science, and urban studies, as well as scholars, practitioners, and policymakers interested in digital governance, smart cities, civic technology, and algorithmic politics.

Critical urban theory and postcolonial approaches are brought together in this compelling book to explore the relationship between colonial legacies, urbanization, and global capitalism in southern Mexico. “Producing Mayaland” investigates the boom-to-bust story of maquiladoras in the state of Yucatán to shed light on how the built environment was shaped by discourse, imaginaries, and everyday practices. In making sense of this social production of space, the author examines infrastructure constructed to support the maquiladora project and traces the attempts of the state to portray Yucatán as an exotic and business-friendly maquiladora paradise. These practices stand in contrast to the livelihood strategies and life stories of maquiladora workers and residents. Carefully weaving geography, history, and ethnography, the author draws on a wide range of sources to illustrate a central tension in capitalism: its tendency to homogenize while thriving in differentiation. With important insights into an understudied location, “Producing Mayaland” urges us to understand urbanization in the global South in new ways.

What does a feminist urban theory look like for the twenty first century? This book puts knowledges of feminist urban scholars, feminist scholars of social reproduction, and other urban theorists into conversation to propose an approach to the urban that recognises social reproduction both as foundational to urban transformations and as a methodological entry-point for urban studies. • Offers an approach feminist urban theory that remains intentionally cautious of universal uses of social reproduction theory, instead focusing analytical attention on historical contingency and social difference • Eleven chapters that collectively address distinct elements of the contemporary crisis in social reproduction and the urban through the lenses of infrastructure and subjectivity formation as well as through feminist efforts to decolonize urban knowledge production • Deepens understandings of how people shape and reshape the spatial forms of their everyday lives, furthering understandings of the 'infinite variety' of the urban • Essential reading for academics, researchers and scholars within urban studies, human geography, gender and sexuality studies, and sociology

MANIFESTING DEMOCRACY? 'This book is a must-read for those seeking to understand right-wing authoritarianism in contemporary Brazil. It connects Brazil's street protests of 2013 - a moment celebrated by progressives at the time - to the eventual rise of Jair Bolsonaro. The essays presented here highlight key insights from top scholars in the field, and offer context for understanding politics and the future of Brazilian democracy.' -Dr Jeff Garmany, University of Melbourne Manifesting Democracy? explores the series of public protests – manifestações – that took place in a number of Brazilian cities in June and July 2013, when thousands of people took to the streets to demand improvements in urban infrastructures. This book critically examines the role these protests played in politics, the political and their relationships to urban space and culture. It also analyses their connections to the emergence of a 'New Right' in Brazil. Bringing together scholars from a number of different fields (geography, history, philosophy, art, political economy) and activists, this book is the first interdisciplinary English language anthology to address Brazil's 2013 protests and the broader political and cultural questions they raise. As such, it is a major contribution to Brazilian and Latin American Studies in Europe and the USA, as well as interdisciplinary studies of social movements, urban culture and politics.

Frontier Assemblages offers a new framework for thinking about resource frontiers in Asia • Presents an empirical understanding of resource frontiers and provides tools for broader engagements and linkages • Filled with rich ethnographic and historical case studies and contains contributions from noted scholars in the field • Explores the political ecology of extraction, expansion and production in marginal spaces in Asia • Maps the flows, frictions, interests and imaginations that accumulate in Asia to transformative effect • Brings together noted anthropologists, geographers and sociologists.

Arguing that the hegemony of the neoliberal/capitalist nexus must be challenged if we are to address the proliferating challenges facing our world, this inspiring book explains how democracy can revive the political fortunes of the left. • Explores issues central to the civil uprisings that swept the world in 2011, drawing profound connections between democracy and neoliberalism in an urban context • Features in-depth analysis of key political theorists such as Gramsci, Lefebvre, Rancière, Deleuze and Guattari, and Hardt and Negri • Advocates the reframing of democracy as a personal and collective struggle to discover the best in ourselves and others • Includes empirical analysis of recent instances of collective action.

Through original research conducted in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland, Places of Possibility shows how community land ownership can open up the political, social, environmental, and economic terrain to more socially just and sustainable possibilities than private ownership. • Reveals how community land ownership is more just and sustainable than private ownership • Features original theoretical insights into ideas of property and nature that disrupt the process of neoliberalisation • Based on original research conducted by the author in the Outer Hebrides, Scotland

An international group of distinguished scholars pay homage to and build on the work of one of the most influential thinkers of our time, Michael Watts. • Shows how Michael Watts' research, writings, teaching and mentoring have relentlessly pushed boundaries, transforming his chosen field of geography and beyond • Spans an array of topics including the political economy and ecology of African societies, governmentality and territoriality in various Southern contexts, food security, cultural materialist expositions of capitalism, modernity and development across the postcolonial world • Builds on his legacy, exploring its theoretical, analytical, and empirical implications and proposing exciting new possibilities for further exploration in the tracks of Watts.

“Frontier Road” uses the history of one road in southern Colombia-known locally as "the trampoline of death"-to demonstrate how state-building processes and practices have depended on the production and maintenance of frontiers as inclusive-exclusive zones, often through violent means. • Considers the topic from multiple perspectives, including ethnography of the state, the dynamics of frontiers, and the nature of postcolonial power, space, and violence • Draws attention to the political, environmental, and racial dynamics involved in the history and development of transport infrastructure in the Amazon region • Examines the violence that has sustained the state through time and space, as well as the ways in which ordinary people have made sense of and contested that violence in everyday life • Incorporates a broad range of engaging sources, such as missionary and government archives, travel writing, and oral histories

This compelling contribution to contemporary debates about the banking industry offers a unique perspective on its geographical and conceptual 'placement'. It traces the evolving links between the two, revealing how our notions of banking 'productiveness' have evolved alongside the shifting loci of banking activity. • An original contribution to the urgent debates taking place on banking sparked by the current economic crisis • Offers a unique perspective on the geographical and social concept of 'placement' of the banking industry • Combines theoretical approaches from political economy with contemporary literature on the performativity of economics • Details the globalization of Western banking, and analyzes how representations of the banking sector's productiveness have shifted throughout the evolution of Western economic theory • Analyzes the social conceptualization of the nature—and value—of the banking industry • Illuminates not only how economic ideas 'perform' and shape the economic world, but how those ideas are themselves always products of particular economic realities

An urgent and extraordinary book. Weaving a philosophical analysis of Heidegger, Agamben and Foucault, Jan draws out the implications of their thought for a radical analysis of the ontological politics of Islam and Pakistan. Whether writing about the 'Ulama and Deoband schools, blasphemy laws, the military, beards, or the Bamiyan Buddhas, Jan provokes and challenges our thinking while unearthing the ground on which Pakistan-and our world-are built.' -Joel Wainwright, Department of Geography, Ohio State University, USA 'In this exceptionally inventive and important book, Jan shows us that the problems besetting political life in Pakistan are part of a more troubling crisis in modern forms of power. Challenging accounts that cordon off "political Islam" from "the West," Jan discloses their fundamental indistinction and thus, through his practice of critical ontology, reorients our understanding of how power and violence are at work in the world.' -Joshua Barkan, Department of Geography, University of Georgia, USA The Metacolonial State presents a novel rethinking of the relationship between Islam and the Political. Key to the text is an original argument regarding the "biopoliticization of Islam" and the imperative need for understanding sovereign power and the state of exception in resolutely ontological terms. Through the formulation of a critical ontology of political violence, The Metacolonial State endeavors to shed new light on the signatures of power undergirding postcolonial life, while situating Pakistan as a paradigmatic site for reflection on the nature of modernity's precarious present. The cross-disciplinary approach of Dr. Jan's work is certain to have broad appeal among geographers, historians, anthropologists, postcolonial theorists, and political scientists, among others. At the same time, his explication of critical ontology — with its radical reading of the interlacement of history, power and the event — promises to add a bold new dimension to social science research on Islamism and biopolitics.

Challenging the main ways we debate globalization, Global Displacements reveals how uneven geographies of capitalist development shape-and are shaped by-the aspirations and everyday struggles of people in the global South. • Makes an original contribution to the study of globalization by bringing together critical development and feminist theoretical approaches • Opens up new avenues for the analysis of global production as a long-term development strategy • Contributes novel theoretical insights drawn from the everyday experiences of disinvestment and precarious work on people's lives and their communities • Represents the first analysis of increasing uneven development among countries in the Caribbean • Calls for more rigorous studies of long accepted notions of the geographies of inequality and poverty in the global South.

A wide-ranging and knowledgeable guide to the history of radical geography in North America and beyond. • Includes contributions from an international group of scholars • Focuses on the centrality of place, spatial circulation and geographical scale in understanding the rise of radical geography and its spread • A celebration of radical geography from its early beginnings in the 1950s through to the 1980s, and after • Draws on oral histories by leaders in the field and private and public archives • Contains a wealth of never-before published historical material • Serves as both authoritative introduction and indispensable professional reference