AntipodePub Date : 2023-12-12DOI: 10.1111/anti.13014
Fiadh Tubridy
{"title":"Militant Research in the Housing Movement: The Community Action Tenants Union Rent Strike History Project","authors":"Fiadh Tubridy","doi":"10.1111/anti.13014","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13014","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Knowledge generated by and with radical housing movements is necessary to achieve a more just housing system. This article analyses a militant research project involving collective investigation of the history of rent strikes in Ireland undertaken within the Community Action Tenants Union Ireland. Drawing on the tradition of workers’ inquiry, it explores the relationships between militant research, class composition, and radical history, and how collective investigation of housing movement history might contribute to contemporary organising. The article is based on both oral history and archival research as well as reflections on the research process. The analysis focuses on how the project has or might contribute to current organising efforts through lessons drawn from historical analysis and connections developed through the research process, while also identifying tensions between research and organising. Overall, it highlights the value of radical history research as a form of organising and strategy for political recomposition.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"1027-1046"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13014","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139008609","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 : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1111/anti.13006
Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Kirsti Ashworth, Reuben Larbi
{"title":"Concrete Impacts: Blast Walls, Wartime Emissions, and the US Occupation of Iraq","authors":"Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Kirsti Ashworth, Reuben Larbi","doi":"10.1111/anti.13006","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Militaries around the world are a major source of carbon emissions, yet very little is known about their carbon footprint. Reliable data around military resource use and environmental damage is highly variable. Researchers are dependent upon military transparency, the context of military operations, and broader emissions reporting. While studies are beginning to emerge on global militaries and their carbon footprints, less work has focused on wartime emissions. We examine one sliver of the hidden carbon emissions of late-modern warfare by focusing on the use of concrete “blast walls” by US forces in Baghdad over a five-year period (2003–2008). This study uses a Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) to study one of the world's largest military carbon footprints of concrete, an infrastructural weapon in late-modern urban counterinsurgencies. Moving beyond dominant discourses on climate-security and “greening”, we present one of the first studies to expose <i>direct</i> and <i>indirect</i> military emissions resulting from combat.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"983-1005"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138978855","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 : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.13013
Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver, Jonathan Silver
{"title":"When the Abu Dhabi United Group Came to Town: Constructing an Organisational Fix for State Capitalism through the Manchester Life Partnership","authors":"Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver, Jonathan Silver","doi":"10.1111/anti.13013","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For many cities, the entry of financial actors into housing opens new geopolitical relations with overseas entities, including state-backed investors such as sovereign wealth funds. These transformations raise the question of the extent to which real estate enables the urbanisation of state capitalism, understood as the expansion of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital. Our paper answers this question through an analysis of Manchester Life, a residential real estate joint venture between Manchester City Council and the Abu Dhabi United Group, an investment firm linked to the Abu Dhabi royal family. In doing so it explores state capitalism as a form of extended urbanisation, with oil revenues from the Persian Gulf used to extract urban land rents in the Global North. It further highlights urban geopolitical implications, theorising Manchester Life as an organisational fix that reworks the geographies of value extraction while eroding democratic accountability.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"896-921"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604774","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 : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.13010
Jacob P. Chamberlain
{"title":"Countering Hegemonic Human Rights Norms through Migrant Labour Organising: The Case of Migrant Justice","authors":"Jacob P. Chamberlain","doi":"10.1111/anti.13010","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses undocumented migrant labour organising in a complicated context and site, the Vermont dairy industry, in relation to Tanya Basok's concept of “counter-hegemonic human rights”. Taking migrant rights organisation Migrant Justice in Burlington, Vermont as a case study, this work examines migrant labour organising that calls upon notions of human rights for economic migrants in the USA. Migrant Justice works through commodity chain labour organising that transcends the scale of the state, calls on moral geographies of consumption and production, and autonomously redistributes not just capital, but power, from the corporation down to workers. An analysis of literature on migrant human rights in relation to labour organising will lead us to problematise mainstream human rights discourse, explore alternative conceptions of rights, and understand the liberatory components of the “counter-hegemonic” employment of human rights by subversive actors, which may truly hold the potentials that mainstream human rights discourse claims.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1212-1232"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604796","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 : 2023-12-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.13012
Desiree Fields, Emma R. Power, Kenton Card
{"title":"Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing","authors":"Desiree Fields, Emma R. Power, Kenton Card","doi":"10.1111/anti.13012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations with Blackness and indigeneity, papers in the Symposium examine housing movements that take care as the starting point. As we discuss in this introduction to the Symposium, in such movements, care operates as connective tissue across households and modes of difference; challenges relations of racial capitalism and settler colonialism that underlie dominant understandings of who deserves and can demand care; and drives calls for public care and experiments with non-propertised forms of ownership. Housing systems are care infrastructures, making housing movements a vital place for care work.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"743-754"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605489","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 : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1111/anti.13011
Martina Yopo Díaz
{"title":"The Ethics of Self‐Care: Risk, Responsibility, and Reproduction in Chile","authors":"Martina Yopo Díaz","doi":"10.1111/anti.13011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13011","url":null,"abstract":"The meanings of self‐care are complex, ranging from radical political warfare to structural biopolitical governmentality. This paper explores lived tensions of self‐care by analysing women's experiences negotiating pregnancy in Santiago de Chile. Drawing on 40 life story interviews, the findings show that although sexual education, contraception, and abortion remain constrained and structured according to class inequalities, women are expected to care for themselves by managing the risk of pregnancy and assuming responsibility for their reproductive outcomes. I argue that politics of reproduction in Santiago de Chile are shaped by a neoliberal ethics of self‐care that outlines women as autonomous, rational, and self‐regulating agents while neglecting structural constraints that affect whether and when to have children. This neoliberal ethics of self‐care reinforces the overburdening of the self, the feminisation of reproduction, the privatisation of care, and the institutionalisation of carelessness, undermining the subversive and emancipatory potential involved in caring for oneself.","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139218440","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 : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1111/anti.13009
Émile Baril
{"title":"Citizen-rentier-ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris","authors":"Émile Baril","doi":"10.1111/anti.13009","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Platform food delivery workers have been under much scrutiny over the last couple of years. Undocumented riders, and their recent strikes and protests in France, have not received as much attention as other issues regarding platform labour (contract work, algorithmic control, surveillance). This article follows fieldwork conducted in Paris and interviews with food couriers. Building on work by critical urban studies, migration studies and science and technology studies, this research puts forward citizen-<i>rentier</i>-ship, a tool to understand how multiple parties profit from aspects of precarious status. Interviews with undocumented couriers who worked in Paris highlight how the subletting of accounts, the complicit role of the state, the hypocrisy of employers and the interdependency with the “regularised” put undocumented couriers in hyper-precarious situations. This article concludes that labour laws, misclassification and migration policies are at the centre of the struggles of Paris’ delivery workers and that they need changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1132-1151"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139219177","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 : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1111/anti.13004
Judith Audin
{"title":"Of Other Dreamlands: Vernacular Adaptation, Urban Exploration, and Alternative Spectacles in China's Abandoned Themed Spaces","authors":"Judith Audin","doi":"10.1111/anti.13004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies social meanings and practices emerging from two abandoned themed spaces in China: disused theme parks and mega-event sites. Theme parks first appeared in the late 1980s–early 1990s, in the emerging leisure economy and society. In the 1990s–early 2000s, mega-event urbanism became a driver of China's urban development and a strategy of national and international legitimacy. Since their abandonment and disuse by official owners, themed spaces have become ruinscapes where workers and visitors produce agency through rubble and ruination. These spaces constitute sites of vernacular occupation through farming, urban exploration, or wedding photography. Abandoned mega-event sites create alternative spectacles of dereliction forming a critique of the original spectacle. Based on urban exploration as an ethnographic method and on fieldwork in Chinese abandoned themed spaces between 2015 and 2019, this article analyses the spatial and social dimensions of abandoned themed spaces in their afterlives as ruins and rubble.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1109-1131"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139230164","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 : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1111/anti.12999
Diego Astorga de Ita
{"title":"Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures","authors":"Diego Astorga de Ita","doi":"10.1111/anti.12999","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.12999","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay considers how the grasslands of the Mexican region of El Sotavento entangle with the history of racial capitalism and with traditional Sotaventine music. Throughout this text, I argue that <i>son Jarocho</i> music and its poetics counterpoint racist colonial discourses making space for ways of being beyond racial capitalism. I review the history of Sotaventine grasslands, counterpointing their historical becomings with ethnographic materials and current poetic expressions. I especially focus on two sones: <i>La Caña</i>, written in the 1990s by Patricio Hidalgo Belli regarding sugarcane, and the 18<sup>th</sup> century <i>Toro Zacamandú</i> that speaks of cowboying. Using scholarly writings on the plantation and plantation histories from McKittrick and Glissant, King's work on fungibility, scholarship on Maroon landscapes and marronage, and an array of writers who explore poetics and geopoetics, we shall see how racial capitalism and the historical becomings of plantations and pastures are reflected and overturned in Sotaventine sounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"872-895"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12999","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245052","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 : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1111/anti.12998
Ibán Díaz-Parra, Jose Candón-Mena, Cecilia Zapata
{"title":"Round Trip Policies: Housing and Self-Management, from Europe to Latin America and Back Again","authors":"Ibán Díaz-Parra, Jose Candón-Mena, Cecilia Zapata","doi":"10.1111/anti.12998","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.12998","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Current debates in radical urban studies and comparative urbanism focus in part on the denunciation of universalisation in urban theories as an expression of Eurocentrism. Decolonial and postcolonial scholars risk rejecting general theorising in the name of particularism, difference, and the fragmentary character of the world and reducing every urban policy transmission to the result of colonial relations. On the contrary, it would be more productive for radical scholars to pay attention to common pathways and universalist aspirations of anti-capitalist urban struggles. This paper traces the connections between three experiences of self-managed habitat production, developed by grassroots movements in Latin America and Europe. The comparative case study enables discussion of universalising aspirations of struggles against capitalist urban development. The paper concludes that collective and solidarity-based self-construction is a universal form of production of space, common to any culture at some point and to some extent, and that the self-managed production of habitat is a potentially universal paradigm for current anti-capitalist urban struggles.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 2","pages":"446-468"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12998","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139249593","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}