AntipodePub Date : 2025-02-24DOI: 10.1111/anti.70004
William Monteith
{"title":"Reworlding Antiwork Politics","authors":"William Monteith","doi":"10.1111/anti.70004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Antiwork praxis has experienced something of a resurgence in the wake of the global financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic. Yet the radical potential of antiwork theory and politics is currently limited by its centring of the histories and subjectivities of (post-)Fordist wage workers in the Global North. In response, this article argues that a project of “reworlding” antiwork politics is necessary both to extend the antiwork critique by tracing work's association with other processes of dehumanisation, and to expand the postwork imaginary through an engagement with diverse and divergent ways of living otherwise. Following a sympathetic critique of the existing antiwork scholarship, it introduces three strategies for reworlding antiwork politics inspired by the postcolonial and Black radical traditions: <i>provincialising the wage</i>; <i>reckoning with living alternatives</i>; and <i>nurturing divergent forms of organisation</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"1062-1082"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70004","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793811","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 : 2025-02-19DOI: 10.1111/anti.70006
Ateeb Ahmed
{"title":"Caste, Markets, and Surplus Populations: Disciplinary Urbanism in Lahore's Militarised Urban Frontier","authors":"Ateeb Ahmed","doi":"10.1111/anti.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<p>I propose the concept of disciplinary urbanism to capture the Pakistani military's economic, political, and spatial strategies driving urbanisation in the rural–urban frontier in Lahore. Firstly, disciplinary urbanism accounts for the financial, spatial, and coercive strategies for acquiring agricultural land on the urban frontiers. I show how agrarian caste and class relationships are central to accumulating land values through the market and how such transformations create a new class of relative surplus populations along the axis of class, caste, and gender. Secondly, disciplinary urbanism elucidates the extensive application of militarised architectural practices and spatial discipline to enclose state and common lands while controlling surplus populations. I examine the methods used to control, securitise, and capture land and labour and the tactics employed to counter the challenges posed by the informal economic and political activities of the surplus populations, which are controlled differentially based on class, caste, ethnicity, gender, and citizenship.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"763-785"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70006","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793969","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 : 2025-02-14DOI: 10.1111/anti.70002
Jonathan Barnes
{"title":"The Expert Epistemology of Climate Finance: Re-Visiting the Depoliticisation Critique","authors":"Jonathan Barnes","doi":"10.1111/anti.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The response to climate change is orchestrated by international organisations, reflecting the global challenge and collaborative response. There is an established critique that this process is depoliticised—where institutions, policies, and practices foreclose contestation. This paper explores the downstream effects of this, where global knowledge practices intersect with national climate change planning. I nuance the concept of depoliticisation, drawing on the South African experience with the Green Climate Fund. I argue that there is an urgency framing, underlaid by scientific and financial rationales, which is willingly enacted by domestic actors. This limits the scope and participation in climate finance, empowering unevenly, rather than voiding politics. These effects are demonstrated by bringing together the depoliticisation literature with civic epistemology, to clarify how the epistemic geography of climate change in South Africa formulates, contests, and deploys knowledge. Re-politicisation is evident within the limits of urgency which is missed in depoliticisation literature.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"808-829"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70002","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793846","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 : 2025-02-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.70001
Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris, Fiona McConnell
{"title":"Diplomatic Training and Spaces of Anticolonial Worldmaking","authors":"Ruth Craggs, Jonathan Harris, Fiona McConnell","doi":"10.1111/anti.70001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70001","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Focusing on training for African diplomats from newly independent countries in Cameroon, Kenya, and Zimbabwe, this paper makes the case for spaces of diplomatic training as sites for anticolonial “worldmaking” (Getachew 2019; <i>Worldmaking After Empire: The Rise and Fall of Self-Determination</i>). Recent scholarship has highlighted the value of African leaders’ visions but largely overlooked the actors, spaces, and practices through which these visions were to be enacted. Drawing on archival evidence from Africa, Europe, and North America, and oral history interviews, we argue that worldmaking projects were grounded, learnt, and transformed in places such as the classrooms and study tours we explore. Whilst many accounts of anticolonial and subaltern geopolitical projects focus on grassroots activism beyond and against the state, we argue we also need to attend to the contributions of those—like African diplomats in training—who critiqued Eurocentric and colonial international relations from subaltern positions whilst remaining privileged within the context of the postcolonial state.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"862-885"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70001","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793298","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 : 2025-02-11DOI: 10.1111/anti.70003
Lee Amaduzzi, Sergio Ruiz Cayuela
{"title":"“It was never about money!”: Articulating a Commoning Anticapitalist Strategy in German Common Economies","authors":"Lee Amaduzzi, Sergio Ruiz Cayuela","doi":"10.1111/anti.70003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70003","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In this paper, we delve into a contentious issue within commoning literature: the role of money in anticapitalist strategy and praxis. Focusing on German <i>Gemeinsame Ökonomie</i> (“Common Economies”), income sharing groups in the radical left, we examine the boundaries of money as a transformative tool and the social relations cultivated through commoning money. By militantly engaging with individuals who pool their finances into shared bank accounts, the paper explores the operational dynamics and underlying rationale of Common Economies along three analytical and political categories that form our proposed commoning anticapitalist strategy. First, individual commoners and processes of subjectivation that can potentially reconfigure common senses. Second, communities and the very contentious process of boundary-making as a balance between subsistence and political potential. And third, the accumulation of collective capacities and their deployment to articulate a commons autonomy aiming to overcome the capitalist organisation of life. Situating money commoning within the framework of reproductive commoning, we argue that Common Economies do not see money sharing as an end in-itself, but as a means that allows them to liberate collective work and direct it towards radical anticapitalist action. Finally, we analyse the shortcomings of Common Economies as a commoning anticapitalist strategy: a lack of internal diversity of the groups, the challenge of upscaling, and the inherent contradictions of using money in trying to overcome capitalism. This investigation contributes to a nuanced understanding of money as a capitalist tool that can be hacked to rebuild reproductive commons in the Global North.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"786-807"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793914","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 : 2025-02-09DOI: 10.1111/anti.13135
Sierra Deutsch, Bram Büscher, Robert Coates, Laila Sandroni
{"title":"Upsetting the Double Movement? Elite Schisms and Bolsonaro's Brazil in the Context of Global Authoritarian Capitalism","authors":"Sierra Deutsch, Bram Büscher, Robert Coates, Laila Sandroni","doi":"10.1111/anti.13135","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13135","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The brazen political antics and mystifying logics accompanying the contemporary rise of authoritarianism have garnered much interest in academic and popular media. A key question is how to make sense of a politics that seems nonsensical? Using the example of Brazilian governance under Bolsonaro, we combine and build on elite studies, authoritarian neoliberalism, and the double movement literature to address this question. We argue for the conceptualisation of an “elite schism” where a “new elite” is emerging to obfuscate an increasingly co-constitutive and mutually destructive double movement. In defiance of well-established elite etiquette, many of these “new elites” demolish socioecological protections with reckless abandon. We then show how this development upsets double movement dynamics to argue that the contemporary authoritarian trend is part of a broader reshuffling of social relations as market expansion pushes societies closer to socioecological collapse. We conclude by highlighting potential opportunities for resistance.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"907-929"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13135","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793545","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 : 2025-02-05DOI: 10.1111/anti.13137
Julio Gutiérrez
{"title":"Building Hype: Libertarian Cities, Fictitious Development, and Speculative Dispossession in El Salvador's “Bitcoin City”","authors":"Julio Gutiérrez","doi":"10.1111/anti.13137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13137","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Libertarian city projects are emerging as a new trend in capitalist urbanisation. One aspect about this trend is their location in rural Global South regions. The former raises questions about the role of these projects in the global land grab. This paper analyses the connection of libertarian city projects and land dispossession through the case of Bitcoin City in El Salvador. Data from news reports, surveys, and cadastral records show that the land dispossession associated with Bitcoin City is connected to a speculative dynamic generated by the project's intensive publicity. The media spectacle created by this publicity is intensifying pre-existing land grabbing patterns oriented toward the construction of real estate projects. I argue that this phenomenon is a result of the ruling elite's attempt to construct a strategy of economic growth around a logic of financial accumulation. To explain the rationality behind this effort and its material impacts, I introduce the concept of <i>fictitious development</i>.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"973-995"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793576","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 : 2025-01-30DOI: 10.1111/anti.13131
Ying Wang, Tingting Lu, Can Ouyang, Fulong Wu
{"title":"Mobilising the Entrepreneurial Self to Manage the Crisis: Community Group-Buying during the Shanghai Lockdown","authors":"Ying Wang, Tingting Lu, Can Ouyang, Fulong Wu","doi":"10.1111/anti.13131","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13131","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The COVID pandemic disrupted traditional entrepreneurial governance arrangements. When the state's action could not effectively govern society, the “entrepreneurial self” began to emerge and manage the crisis. Using Shanghai as a case study, this research examines the dynamics of “community group-buying” during its city-wide lockdown in 2022. It shows how a small group of residents, known as group-buying entrepreneurs (<i>tuanzhang</i>), mobilise community members and organise collective food purchases to address the resource shortage during the lockdown. We find that group-buying is not merely a rediscovery of the community in times of crisis. Despite its spontaneous formation, we demonstrate that group-buying is ultimately captured, endorsed, and instrumentalised by the local state for crisis management. Through this, we present a new manifestation of the “entrepreneurial self” and its paradoxical functions—exercising community self-organisation while simultaneously extending state power in territorial forms. We also highlight the state's central role in China's entrepreneurial governance, even in the crisis mode when its capacities were under pressure.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 3","pages":"1148-1171"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13131","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143793798","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 : 2025-01-27DOI: 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}