AntipodePub Date : 2025-01-27DOI: 10.1111/anti.13132
David Madden
{"title":"Social Reproduction and the Housing Question","authors":"David Madden","doi":"10.1111/anti.13132","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13132","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There is broad recognition today that there is a link between the crisis of social reproduction and the housing problem. But their precise relationship is not always clear. This paper is an attempt to clarify their connection. Housing, this paper argues, is not merely the location or container of the crisis of social reproduction. Rather, there are elements of the contemporary housing system which intensify and shape the crisis of social reproduction. Drawing on feminist political economy and critical housing research, this paper identifies four major pathways by which the housing system exacerbates the crisis of social reproduction: depletion, disruption, redomestication, and recommodification. It also considers housing as a site for repoliticising social reproduction. Ultimately, the paper argues that a complete account of the housing question cannot ignore social reproduction as a political-economic process.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"578-598"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13132","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143253548","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 : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.13130
Clare Herrick
{"title":"Medical Futurology: The National Health Service and the Politics of Inevitable Conclusions","authors":"Clare Herrick","doi":"10.1111/anti.13130","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13130","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The history of Britain's National Health Service is a history of crises: staffing shortages; insufficient capital investment; and a lack of infrastructure rendered worse by the absence of the long-term funding settlements needed to ensure the service's future. The “critical condition” (Darzi 2024:131; https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-investigation-of-the-nhs-in-england) of the NHS in the present makes reflection on the future of the health service essential and unavoidable. However, the NHS is characterised by “forms of inertia” (Powell 1966:73; <i>A New Look at Politics and Medicine</i>) that, even as public dissatisfaction hits record levels, consistently undermines arguments for necessary change. Drawing on the example of workforce planning, I examine how efforts to imagine <i>the future of</i> and <i>a future for</i> the NHS have taken three forms: planned; tethered (to the past); and resisted. In this, I draw out why the NHS as an institution needs to be more central to radical geographical agendas and why geographers should be engaged in its future.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"559-577"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13130","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252601","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 : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.13129
Peter Teunissen
{"title":"Infrastructures, Riverscapes, and the Governance of Mobility: The Evros/Meriç River and the Infrastructuring of Nature","authors":"Peter Teunissen","doi":"10.1111/anti.13129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13129","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates the interplay between infrastructures, geophysical environments, and mobility regimes by focusing on the Evros/Meriç River, as the border between Turkey, Greece, and the EU. Situated in the fields of Infrastructure Studies, Mobility Studies, and Critical Border Studies, this paper examines how border regimes are enrolled in the riverscape, thereby shaping who can cross the river-as-border and under what conditions. Through an interdisciplinary research practice of “montaging”, which integrates ethnographic research, literary and visual analysis, cartography, and textual analysis, this paper analyses how geophysical environments and socio-technical formations co-constitute racialising border regimes. Using the conceptual framework of infrastructure as ecology, this paper highlights the relationality between geophysical environments, border regimes, and how people-on-the-move navigate these landscapes. In so doing, this paper explores a critical way of thinking about “natural borders” and “infrastructures” and aims to put forward analytical tools for documenting and analysing bordering practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"691-713"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252641","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 : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.13128
Sarah Rotz, Daniel Rück, Joseph LeBlanc
{"title":"Farming the North: Cycles of Extraction and Dispossession","authors":"Sarah Rotz, Daniel Rück, Joseph LeBlanc","doi":"10.1111/anti.13128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13128","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines recent initiatives to expand farming in Northern Ontario, Canada, situating these within the historical context of settler colonial agriculture. We ask: how do contemporary efforts in agricultural expansion differ from, or replicate, earlier forms of land acquisition? Focusing on land assembly, we explore how land consolidation, privatisation, and conversion meet agricultural and economic objectives under contemporary colonial capitalism. We consider whether agricultural expansion reinforces narratives that valorise settler agriculture and/or perpetuates patterns of dispossession. Through privatisation and competitive marketisation of “underutilised” lands, agricultural expansion may reconfigure land ownership in ways that serve capital interests and, primarily, settler agricultural entities. This case highlights the role of agricultural development and the interdependence of corporate and state actors in extending financialised land economies, potentially undermining Indigenous food sovereignty, jurisdiction, and autonomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"622-648"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252642","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 : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13127
Aidan While, John Pendlebury
{"title":"Heritage Protection as Progressive Urbanism? Modernist Social Housing in England","authors":"Aidan While, John Pendlebury","doi":"10.1111/anti.13127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13127","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Heritage protection can sometimes disrupt the remaking and reimaging of cities by prioritising and protecting alternatives based on non-market values of architectural and historical significance. In England, the “post-war listing” programme has positioned state heritage protection as an unlikely advocate and defender (sometimes of last resort) of the diminishing material and symbolic legacy of the architecture of the welfare state and its socialist values from the 1950s and 1960s. In this paper, we explore what might be at stake ideologically, materially, and symbolically in the protection of post-war architectural heritage in England. While post-war listing has creating scope for alternatives, its subaltern role (in and against the state) has been limited in various ways by state strategies of market-based regeneration that erode and marginalise social housing and welfarist rights to the city. Although heritage protection has been only a minor irritant in the politics of regeneration, the paper explores what might be at stake for the Left in engaging more explicitly with heritage building protection and the selectivity of heritage value.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"734-757"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248949","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 : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13123
R.C. Sudheesh
{"title":"From Land Reform to Landfare: Land Claims and the Welfare State in Kerala, India","authors":"R.C. Sudheesh","doi":"10.1111/anti.13123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While large-scale land reform may still be underway in many countries, other contexts have states responding to land claims through scattered land provision measures. This article puts forward “landfare” as a lens to capture such measures and unpacks its features in one location. The article first explains this term, outlining its location in and departure from the land reform scholarship. It next shows how Kerala, India, widely cited in the scholarship for its 20<sup>th</sup> century land reform, addresses the land claims of its Adivasi citizens in the 21<sup>st</sup> century through landfare. Through an exploration of Adivasi land claims and an examination of state responses in Kerala, the article argues that landfare can work through four key modes—obfuscation, withholding available land, projectisation, and welfare fix. Unlike the “land-to-the-tiller” goals of 20<sup>th</sup> century land reform, 21<sup>st</sup> century landfare can be aimed at extinguishingland struggles.</p><p>ലോകത്തിൽ പലയിടങ്ങളിലും വിസ്തൃതമായ ഭൂപരിഷ്കരണം ഇന്നും നടപ്പിലാക്കപ്പെടുന്നുണ്ടെങ്കിലും മറ്റു പലയിടങ്ങളിലും ഭൂമിക്കു വേണ്ടിയുള്ള അവകാശവാദങ്ങളോട് സ്റ്റേറ്റ് പ്രതികരിക്കുന്നത് ചിതറിയ ഭൂമി വിതരണ പദ്ധതികൾവഴിയാണ്. ഇവയെ മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ ഈ ലേഖനം ‘ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർ' എന്ന ആശയം മുന്നോട്ടുവയ്ക്കുകയും കേരളത്തിൽ ഇതിൻ്റെ പ്രത്യേകതകൾ എന്തൊക്കെയെന്ന് അന്വേഷിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. ഈ ആശയത്തെ ഭൂപരിഷ്കരണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പഠനങ്ങളുടെ വെളിച്ചത്തിൽ വിശദീകരിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് ലേഖനം തുടങ്ങുന്നു. ഭൂപരിഷ്കരണത്തിന് പേരുകേട്ട കേരളം ഇന്ന് ആദിവാസി ഭൂസമരങ്ങളോട് ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർ വഴി എങ്ങനെ പ്രതികരിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് അന്വേഷിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് ലേഖനം തുടരുന്നു. ഭൂമിയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട വിവരങ്ങളിൽ അവ്യക്തത പാലിക്കുക, സ്റ്റേറ്റ് നിയന്ത്രണത്തിൽ വരാവുന്ന ഭൂമി നല്കാതിരിക്കുക, ഭൂവിതരണത്തെ പദ്ധതിവത്ക്കരിക്കുക, ക്ഷേമപദ്ധതികൾ കൊണ്ട് പ്രശ്നപരിഹാരം കണ്ടെത്തുക എന്നീ നാലു രീതികളിലാണ് ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർ ഇവിടെ പ്രധാനമായും പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന് കാണിക്കുന്നു. അടിസ്ഥാനവർഗത്തിന് ഭൂമി എന്ന ആശയത്തിൽനിന്നു മാറി ഭൂസമരങ്ങളെ തടയാനുള്ള ഉപാധിയായി ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർപ്രവർത്തിക്കാം എന്ന് ലേഖനം വാദിക്കുന്നു.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"670-690"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248948","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 : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1111/anti.13124
Sean P. Smith
{"title":"Discursive Extraction: Language, Value, and Capital in Myanmar's Tourism Frontier","authors":"Sean P. Smith","doi":"10.1111/anti.13124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13124","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The mid-2010s tourism boom in Myanmar (Burma) shows how discourse creates and extracts value in tourism frontiers. Building on studies documenting tourism's operation as an extractive industry, interviews with 60 tourists, residents, and industry stakeholders in Myanmar in 2018–20 reveal that tourism in frontiers is oriented by an extractivist logic. The high-value symbolic goods pursued by tourists are experiences with people who are otherised as “premodern”, which tourists accumulate and exchange on a linguistic market in a process described as <i>discursive extraction</i>. What is theorised as an extractive relation grounded in colonial hierarchies of value commodifies people and places as repositories of symbolic capital, supporting the territorialisation of spaces for tourism development and revealing discourse to be a constitutive force in the extractive geographies of tourism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"649-669"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252785","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 : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1111/anti.13126
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn
{"title":"Neoliberalism's Imagined Futures: Sustainability as Colonialism in Eco-City Design","authors":"Maxim Tvorun-Dunn","doi":"10.1111/anti.13126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13126","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the architectural tropes used in designs which are concurrently branded as sustainable and futuristic, offering a critique of techno-solutionist architectures that have been promoted by the European Union, World Expos, and forward-looking design pedagogy. Through an analysis of the designs of Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut, I observe that such “eco-futurist” images symbolically communicate an association with sustainability through the visible use of “green” technologies and the adoption of highly contextual encounters with greenery, rhetorically prefaced on the ability of techno-science to mediate human–nature relationships, and visually bound within the design tropes of luxury tourist destinations. By intertwining the aspirational futures of sustainable design with the aesthetic sensibilities of the wealthy, I argue that eco-futurism primarily aligns itself with the interests of neoliberal property development and the spatial and social logics of colonialism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"714-733"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143250078","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 : 2024-12-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13122
Chris Meulbroek, Jim Glassman
{"title":"The National Security State and the Tech City: Social Structures of Militarisation in Seattle's Long Cold War","authors":"Chris Meulbroek, Jim Glassman","doi":"10.1111/anti.13122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13122","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Integration between the American state and technology capital has deep roots in the military-industrial complex that has structured the US geopolitical economy since World War II. This article makes the case for understanding the urban-regional dimensions of technology capital in terms of a transformation of, rather than as a departure from, Cold War geopolitics. It introduces the concept of a social structure of militarisation to analyse the transition from military-Keynesianism to tech-oriented militarism, developing this concept through a case study of high-tech firms in the Seattle region. Our analysis shows how the class dynamics that underpinned the growth of Seattle's “high-tech” aerospace sector in the postwar period conditioned the subsequent growth of the information and biotechnology sectors. Like other tech cities, Seattle's economy remains a privileged site of technical and managerial labour within the extended US national security state.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"599-621"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248958","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 : 2024-11-27DOI: 10.1111/anti.13115
Julia Manek
{"title":"No Camp is a “Good Camp”: The Closed Controlled Access Centre on Samos as a Torturing Environment and Necropolitical Space of Uncare","authors":"Julia Manek","doi":"10.1111/anti.13115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13115","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a crisis-shaken globalised world, migration-related sites of detention emerge as a harmful figure of attempts to contain human mobility. The new Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) on Samos is a blueprint for the EU's future border practices. While openly dehumanising conditions contributed to the previous “old camp” amounting to a torturing environment, the new remote and securitised CCAC promised safety and humanitarian care. Psycho-geographical counter-mappings by people living in the camps and of human rights defenders allow the reading of the hotspot camps as a built environment and social space. They expose how the violent neglect of the old camp transforms into the surveilled and weaponised space of yet another torturing environment. This time, it operates a necropolitical space of uncare that distributes harm differentially. The findings emphasise the abolitionist argument that camps cannot be turned into “better” places. </p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 1","pages":"324-349"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119730","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}