AntipodePub Date : 2025-03-24DOI: 10.1111/anti.70012
Kimberly Schoemaker
{"title":"Sand-Hungry: Accumulations, Erosions, and the Self-Feeding Logic of Beach Renourishment","authors":"Kimberly Schoemaker","doi":"10.1111/anti.70012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper interrogates the metaphor of beach <i>renourishment</i> to show how this common coastal engineering practice <i>feeds</i> its own logic. In a coastal town in Florida, renourishment (the practice of dredging sand to combat erosion) <i>shores up</i> the coastline materially and, importantly, politically, as a wider beachfront protects coastal property, heightening home values and incentivising development. Accumulations, of sand and capital, come with their correlative erosions, of corals, invertebrates, and social relations in town. Thinking with the concept of metabolism, this paper argues that renourishment, like other modes of capitalist production, compels its own “systematic restoration” (Marx 1976; <i>Capital, Volume 1</i>). Renourishment is self-reinforcing, an insatiable hunger for sand and capital that locks the town in an ecologically damaging cycle of infrastructural repair, a <i>sand trap</i>. Climate change enlarges this cycle, worsening erosion while also being deployed locally to argue for more renourishment, recasting it as a mode of “climate adaptation”.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"1105-1125"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70012","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793346","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 : 2025-03-20DOI: 10.1111/anti.70013
Khalid Dader, Mikko Joronen
{"title":"Fitful Infrastructures: Dwelling with Infrastructural Elimination in Gaza","authors":"Khalid Dader, Mikko Joronen","doi":"10.1111/anti.70013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Since 7 October 2023, Gaza has been subjected to unprecedented Israeli genocidal violence that has erased its life-supporting infrastructure. To understand how Gazans navigated these catastrophic conditions—or what we call “infrastructural elimination”—by inventing ephemeral practices using scarce materials at hand, the paper examines “fitful infrastructures”. We scrutinise the material formation of three infrastructural practices: constructing makeshift toilets for tents, water collection and management practices, and improvised methods of generating electricity. Fitful infrastructure, we argue, (i) comprehends infrastructure through what its absence and elimination incapacitates, (ii) centres the material practices of the bombed rather than the logic of bombing in thinking the forced reformation of everyday dwelling/survival, and importantly (iii) highlights, without glorification, fragile and volatile infrastructures as material manifestations of life irreducible to aims of the settler colonial state to eliminate conditions that support it.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"886-906"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793863","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 : 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1111/anti.70014
Jessica DiCarlo, David Fernando Bachrach
{"title":"The Corridor as Commodity: Enclosure, Legibility, and Uneven Development in Southeast Asian Railway Projects","authors":"Jessica DiCarlo, David Fernando Bachrach","doi":"10.1111/anti.70014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Corridors are promoted as seamless solutions for economic development, integrating production and consumption networks. However, they often fall short, fail, and operate as tools of accumulation for some while unevenly and, at times, violently reshaping the lives of others. This paper examines how corridors are constructed through dialectical processes of enclosure and opening, involving the enclosure of land, livelihoods, and social relations alongside the opening of spaces for speculation and accumulation, which we argue constitute <i>corridorisation</i>. Central to this process is abstraction, which transforms corridors into commodities, obscuring inherent contradictions and violence. Drawing on Marx's concept of commodity fetishism, we analyse corridors in Indonesia and Laos to trace the processes and effects of corridorisation. By exposing the fetishisation of corridors, this paper unmasks the hidden social relations and uneven impacts underpinning their development, shedding light on who and what is excluded from these visions of progress.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"930-952"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793471","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 : 2025-03-12DOI: 10.1111/anti.13134
Sid Simpson, Kate Cheever
{"title":"It Was Always Blood and Soil: Ecofascism and the Racial Capitalocene","authors":"Sid Simpson, Kate Cheever","doi":"10.1111/anti.13134","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13134","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this article, we reconceptualise ecofascism by tracing its roots back to their colonial origin, and in doing so provide firmer ground on which to confront it. First, we outline contemporary literature on ecofascism and isolate three areas of confusion: the actions that constitute it, the most relevant actors, and the theoretical genealogy that best explains it. Second, we offer our own conception of ecofascism by reading Aimé Césaire's conception of fascism as colonial categories and tactics that “boomerang” back into the colonial core alongside the “racial capitalocene” framework. This juxtaposition illuminates colonialism and <i>eco</i>fascism as inextricably interconnected phenomena. Thus, we reconceive of ecofascism as the culmination of the colonial logics of extractivism, dehumanisation, and racialised violence finally made legible to and felt by the colonial core. Finally, we articulate forms of confrontation that contest the conditions of possibility for ecofascism as such.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"1126-1147"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793472","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 : 2025-03-09DOI: 10.1111/anti.70011
Kyla Simone Piccin
{"title":"Taking Settler Colonialism Seriously in Abolition Ecologies: Centring Indigenous Dispossession in Geographies of Carceral Power, Ecocide, and the Abolitionist Ecological Imagination","authors":"Kyla Simone Piccin","doi":"10.1111/anti.70011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70011","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholarship increasingly examines international social movements advocating for the abolition of the prison-industrial complex. Within this landscape, Abolition Ecologies has emerged as a generative intellectual space for examining the intersections of carceral power, environmental exploitation, and racial-capitalist violence. However, there are opportunities to address the material dynamics of settler coloniality and Indigenous dispossession in this literature. Amid debates concerning the compatibility between abolition and anti-colonialism, this article asks: What insights emerge when we centre Indigenous dispossession and settler coloniality in Abolition Ecologies? How might these insights complicate how solidarity is conceptualised and activated in the literature? This article identifies three under-explored frictions that arise in centring Indigenous dispossession and settler colonialism in Abolition Ecologies. These frictions reveal complex challenges for the field. However, this article ultimately argues that Abolition Ecologies offers creative analytical and methodological tools to engage with these frictions. Rather than foreclosing solidarity, these frictions spark new opportunities for analysis.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"1083-1104"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70011","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793468","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 : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1111/anti.13136
Diala Lteif
{"title":"The Conditions of the Working Class in 1960s Beirut: Fire and Everyday Struggles in Karantina","authors":"Diala Lteif","doi":"10.1111/anti.13136","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13136","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, I examine the spatial processes of class formation within informal urban spaces. To do so, I consider Karantina in the 1960s, an outgrowth of one of the oldest refugee camps in the world situated in northeastern Beirut, Lebanon. I focus on the struggles of those living in precarious informal shacks, known as <i>tanaké</i>, who repeatedly fought against arson likely instigated by local landowners seeking to evict them. This analysis underscores the decisive role material conditions play in fostering class consciousness among a diverse population, primarily composed of factory and informal workers, as they assert their “right to the city”. I argue that these galvanising confrontations, experienced as recurrent displacement by fire, catalysed a political struggle that transformed this group from a class-in-itself into a class-for-itself. A socio-spatial analysis of the material living conditions of the working class, defined by everyday struggles, is essential to understanding political subjectivity.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"1041-1061"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13136","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793350","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 : 2025-03-06DOI: 10.1111/anti.70009
David Chen
{"title":"China's Eco-Civilisation, Climate Leviathan, and Hobbesian Energy Transition","authors":"David Chen","doi":"10.1111/anti.70009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars have hitherto tended to theorise China's ecological civilisation project either as a form of environmental authoritarianism or as a vision of eco-socialism. This paper contributes to the conversation by conducting a textual analysis of Chinese scholarly discussions on eco-civilisation. The analysis uncovers topics and themes related to both narratives of environmental authoritarianism and eco-socialist envisioning. It also captures the shift in discussion from an ideological critique of industrial civilisation to a techno-bureaucratic agenda concerning sustainable development and governance strategies, along with the growing roles of the party-state, state-corporate cooperation, and geopolitical ambition. To interpret the findings, I revisit the neo-Weberian institutionalist notion of embedded autonomy and revise it through critical realist Marxism, not only to explain the growing bureaucratisation of eco-civilisation but also to untangle its Hobbesian institutional features that distinguish China's eco-civilisation project (or the making of a Climate Leviathan) from the Western liberal mode of environmental governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"830-861"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793322","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 : 2025-03-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.70005
May L. Farrales
{"title":"Decentring Labour: Looking at the Everyday in the Filipinx Diaspora","authors":"May L. Farrales","doi":"10.1111/anti.70005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70005","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholarship on the Filipinx diaspora has tended to be framed through the analytic of labour. Such dominant framings of the Filipinx diaspora tend to set parameters for a diasporic politics that rests on normative citizenship categories. In this paper, I look to the everyday ways Filipinos navigate their lives outside the boundaries of labour. Engaging with interviews conducted on the unceded territories of the Lheidli T'enneh peoples (aka Prince George, British Columbia, Canada), I propose that there are queer ways of disentangling labour configurations by paying attention to the everyday negotiations of Filipinx people. I highlight two ways that Filipinx peoples on Lheidli T'enneh territories show where we might decentre labour as the main way the Filipinx diaspora is theorised. First, I look at the ways in which they turn to the people and places they come from in the Philippines while abroad. Second, I attend to the manner by which Filipinx people approach and appreciate Indigenous sovereignties. I argue that, taken together, their commitments to the people and places they come from and their turning towards Indigenous sovereignties, form starting points that allow for political subjectivities not squarely attached to labour and normative notions of citizenship.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"953-972"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793640","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 : 2025-03-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.70000
Ilenia Iengo
{"title":"Naples, 2032: Visionary Fragments of the Eco-Transfeminist City","authors":"Ilenia Iengo","doi":"10.1111/anti.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70000","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Following critical Black studies scholar and activist Walidah Imarisha's (2018, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jzcgpm5rxG8) words, “We can't build what we can't imagine, all organising is science fiction”, this paper investigates the subjective and collective imaginaries about the Southern Italian city of Naples, from the positionalities and desires of transfeminist and environmental justice activists. The paper aims to sketch a transfeminist urban political ecology informed by feminist and queer geographies, and Black feminist futurity. Inscribed in the tradition of militant research and using the Future Archive Method (Zechner 2013, unpublished PhD thesis; Zechner 2014, https://thisappearance.wordpress.com/2014/11/02/the-future-archive/), the fragments of a desirable eco-transfeminist city emerge as an antidote to its reduction to a neoliberal, commercial, commodified function that worsen the already existing, while producing new inequalities, through the emergent strategies of decommodifying time and space, building transfeminist care infrastructures and radical pedagogies. Thence, guided by the fervid imagination of social justice activists, we will time-travel to Naples in 2032, showing how complex and multi-layered are the prefigurative politics at the intersection of transfeminism and environmental justice, fighting for so much more than is traditionally defined as pertaining to these movements. Finally, the paper makes a case for the engagement with futurity and speculative methods for a transfeminist urban political ecology.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"996-1016"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-03-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793432","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 : 2025-02-27DOI: 10.1111/anti.70007
Crystal Legacy, Chris Gibson, Dallas Rogers
{"title":"Gaslighting Urban Planning? On Risk, Public Participation, and the Evolving Structures of Social Licence to Operate","authors":"Crystal Legacy, Chris Gibson, Dallas Rogers","doi":"10.1111/anti.70007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70007","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper explores how coalitions of state, finance, and capital actors safeguard accumulation and monopolistic structural conditions while gesturing towards more inclusive cities, through what is described as gaslighting. Gaslighting is the manipulation of circumstances to sow doubt, normalising systemic oppression whilst invalidating testimonial capacities of the oppressed. Proponents of urban development deals require certainty. However, with growing demands for just planning practice, proponents must also ensure “social licence to operate” by engaging diverse, and sometimes oppositional, communities. De-risking proposals must resolve this tension through a regulatory-structural “fix”. We argue that gaslighting is one such fix. Drawing on ten years of case study-based research in Sydney and Melbourne, Australia, we outline three modalities of structural gaslighting observed within the planning process—epistemic, moral, and cultural—and for each, we illustrate who is gaslighting and the techniques and tactics used to generate and secure a social licence to operate.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"1017-1040"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70007","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793861","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}