AntipodePub Date : 2025-05-22DOI: 10.1111/anti.70033
Sayd Randle, Matthew Archer
{"title":"Political Ecologies of Storage for the 21st Century","authors":"Sayd Randle, Matthew Archer","doi":"10.1111/anti.70033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70033","url":null,"abstract":"<p>New resource storage arrangements are proliferating rapidly both in terms of physical infrastructures—for the storage of things like “clean” energy, nuclear waste, carbon dioxide, fresh water, and data—and as part of a set of discursive moves that reinforce a vision of a near future world in which problems of climate change mitigation and adaptation in particular (but also issues like energy security, water security, industry growth, etc.) are solved through eco-modernist techno-fixes. This Symposium sketches the contours of a framework we term <i>political ecologies of storage</i>. In doing so, we treat storage as both a potent imaginary and a concrete arrangement of infrastructures and (lively) materials, developing storage as a critical analytic for examining a diverse range of resource configurations. The political ecology of storage highlights the ways in which different storage arrangements are both conditions and consequences of specific political economic dynamics, while at the same time inextricable from multi-scalar physical environments in which they are embedded.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1181-1193"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70033","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-05-19DOI: 10.1111/anti.70032
Megan Egler, Cheryl Morse
{"title":"Power, Narrative, and Fossil Fuels: Meaning-Making and the Co-Optation of Workers’ Struggle","authors":"Megan Egler, Cheryl Morse","doi":"10.1111/anti.70032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70032","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Discursive power operates through narrative to shape subjective perceptions of meaningful work within capitalist societies, where work as employment is required for survival. This article theorises the relationship between labour alienation and the adoption of narratives that create meaning while rationalising and defending the class structure. It presents an empirical example of how discursive power interacts with the material and structural realities of fossil fuel workers in the formation of extractive subjectivities. We asked workers from two of North America's most prominent regions of historical fossil fuel extraction—northern Alberta, Canada, and West Texas, United States—to narrate their experiences and perspectives. Drawing on their words, we explore the resonance between workers’ accounts of alienation, the rationalisations they articulate, and the narratives circulated by fossil fuel capital. Our findings have implications for those working toward more just and ecological societies within the polarised contexts of energy and climate.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1470-1492"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-05-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.70030
Andoni Egia-Olaizola, Unai Villalba-Eguiluz, Xabier Gainza
{"title":"Beyond the New Municipalism: Towards Post-Capitalist Territorial Sovereignty in the Case of Hernani Burujabe","authors":"Andoni Egia-Olaizola, Unai Villalba-Eguiluz, Xabier Gainza","doi":"10.1111/anti.70030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70030","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The so-called new municipalism has spread in different geographical settings as an attempt to democratise the economy and politics in the local sphere, in response to contemporary capitalist contradictions. However, it has encountered political, economic, and scale limitations that have prevented it from consolidating alternatives for territorial transformation. This paper presents the concept of <i>territorial sovereignty</i> as an analytical tool that provides a roadmap to advance towards radical post-capitalist alternatives. Taking the experience of Hernani (Basque Country) as a case study where this proposal is being implemented, the article explores, by means of action research, the potentialities and limits of this concept. Territorial sovereignty is materialised through Public-Economic-Community (PEC) planning, which offers the conditions to democratise planning, promote a post-capitalist economy, and unfold transcalar strategies. The article discusses to what extent this experience displays the conditions to overcome the framework of capitalist relations and promotes a transition towards ecosocialism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1448-1469"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70030","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-05-07DOI: 10.1111/anti.70025
Riyoko Shibe, Ewan Gibbs
{"title":"Workers’ Perspectives on an Unjust Transition: Place, History, and Workplace Closure at Grangemouth Oil Refinery, Scotland","authors":"Riyoko Shibe, Ewan Gibbs","doi":"10.1111/anti.70025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Fossil fuel workers are central protagonists in achieving a “just transition” to a greener and fairer economy. This article examines workforce attitudes towards transition, redundancy, and restructuring following Petroineos’ announcement that the Grangemouth oil refinery in Scotland would close by 2025. It analyses interviews with workers recorded as they responded to the announcement, but before closure processes had begun. A labour-centred view of just transition predominated among our respondents, in response to a closure process where capital's agency was the determining factor. Worker narratives were strongly embedded in history and place through Grangemouth's longstanding status as a key oil and chemicals hub. Perspectives on justice moulded across procedural and distributional facets, centred on local employment, but extended also to the reparative through a commitment to avoiding replicating prior waves of deindustrialisation. Fundamentally, a just transition meant applying workers’ skills locally to meet the imperatives posed by climate change.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1576-1597"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70025","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244284","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-05-06DOI: 10.1111/anti.70026
Ståle Holgersen, Timothy Blackwell
{"title":"Housing Crisis or Immiseration? Revisiting the Housing Question under Urban Capitalism","authors":"Ståle Holgersen, Timothy Blackwell","doi":"10.1111/anti.70026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70026","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The phrase “housing crisis” proliferates in media, politics, and scholarship, and has become the go-to compound noun for depicting the urgency of the manifold social ills associated with widespread, deteriorating housing affordability. Instead of referring to a temporally and spatially bound event, however, the phrase now has become a ubiquitous signifier to encompass a protracted global urban condition. Such framings, both tacit and explicit, are problematic. First, should “crisis” elide with a state of quasi-permanence then, logically, we would require a new term to describe decisive turning points in time and space. Second, conflating “housing crisis” with long-standing structural immiseration shrouds more than it reveals about the nature of contemporary urban capitalism. Such operationalisations often underestimate both the extent to which housing systems can absorb disruption before reaching critical tipping points and the dynamic capacity of state and capital to preserve the existing nexus of asset wealth. We advocate for a more precise, historically grounded conceptualisation of housing crises—one that interrogates their structural roots and shifts the analysis from generalised “housing crisis” narratives to specific moments of housing system crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1515-1535"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70026","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-05-01DOI: 10.1111/anti.70027
Ker-hsuan Chien
{"title":"In Whose Calculation? The Conflicts, Compromises, and Conversions of Corporate-Initiated Renewable Electricity Markets","authors":"Ker-hsuan Chien","doi":"10.1111/anti.70027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates how corporate-led renewable electricity (RE) markets, shaped by voluntary initiatives and calculative devices, restructure energy governance. Using Taiwan's RE market as a case study and drawing on marketisation theory, it reveals how multinational corporations, in collaboration with state actors, embed power asymmetries into climate governance. These asymmetries marginalise smaller firms and local stakeholders, reinforcing unequal access to RE. The findings challenge the state–market dichotomy, showing how both actors co-produce market rules through decentralised, yet uneven, governance. For scholars of environmental governance and energy policy, the paper offers a critical lens to assess how market instruments function not only as tools of coordination but also as mechanisms of exclusion. It argues for policy frameworks that explicitly address these asymmetries, and for practical interventions that democratise access to RE markets.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1426-1447"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244200","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-04-29DOI: 10.1111/anti.70028
Clare M. Beer, Sara Salazar Hughes
{"title":"“Fixing” Settler Capitalism: Un/Sustainability in the Former Fort Ord","authors":"Clare M. Beer, Sara Salazar Hughes","doi":"10.1111/anti.70028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70028","url":null,"abstract":"<p>California's former Fort Ord Army Base is located on the unceded Indigenous territory of the Ohlone Costanoan Esselen Nation. After seven decades as a training ground for foreign wars, the decommissioning of the base triggered an economic, demographic, and cultural crisis for greater Monterey. The solution to this crisis, the Fort Ord Base Reuse Plan, promised sustainable development in the form of local environmental protection, public higher education, and economic growth. We argue that the Fort Ord Base Reuse Plan illustrates a settler sustainability fix, which the state deploys to secure settler capitalist futurity on the Monterey Peninsula at the expense of Indigenous futurity. Ultimately, this research advances current understandings of settler capitalism by foregrounding the role of un/sustainability in defining its crisis-fix relation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1364-1381"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245096","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-04-27DOI: 10.1111/anti.70024
Ola G. Berta
{"title":"Enduring Ascriptions of Dependence: Cultural Autonomy and Relational Interdependence in the Marshall Islands","authors":"Ola G. Berta","doi":"10.1111/anti.70024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70024","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the tensions between external ascriptions of dependence and internal narratives of autonomy and interdependence in the Republic of the Marshall Islands (RMI). The RMI suffers from and endures the legacy of violent colonialism and ongoing reliance on foreign aid, structural factors that inform external ascriptions of dependence. Yet, Marshall Islanders assert their autonomy by engaging in culturally meaningful practices in their everyday life, while government officials frame their diplomatic and geopolitical relations through the prism of relational interdependence. Juxtaposing ethnographic material with historical analysis, the article adopts a relational rather than structural approach to the study of dependency, arguing that it is a claim open to political negotiation and not a label or a possessive quality. Focusing on the interplay between local practices and global political dynamics, this multiscalar analysis provides a nuanced perspective on contemporary geopolitical dynamics and the complexities of postcolonial statehood.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1382-1401"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245103","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-04-20DOI: 10.1111/anti.70019
Ben A. Gerlofs, Xuechao Zheng
{"title":"Humour as a Pedagogical Tool: Evidence and Implications for Critical Geography","authors":"Ben A. Gerlofs, Xuechao Zheng","doi":"10.1111/anti.70019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we elaborate the results of a focused empirical study on the use of humour in teaching undergraduate geography courses. Through semi-structured interviews and weekly reflections submitted by students, we delve into a diverse array of experiences and perceptions of humour as a pedagogical tool. Building on research that suggests humour is an especially potent and exceptionally dangerous mode of communication, we argue that it also holds unique potential in geography. Specifically, we find that humour can have demonstrably positive effects on the learning environment and on relationships between teachers and students, but also carries substantial risks such as distraction, offence, and alienation in practice. We further argue that humour's transgressive nature can be productively harnessed in pursuit of the transformative aims of “critical pedagogy”. Our analysis also suggests distinct pathways for humour's use, and we conclude with guidance for putting the lessons of this research into practice.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1493-1514"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144245108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}