AntipodePub Date : 2025-07-21DOI: 10.1111/anti.70051
Sareeta Amrute
{"title":"Thinking the Unthinkable in AI: Four Hegemonic Ways of Seeing AI and Five Majority World Ways to Move Beyond Them","authors":"Sareeta Amrute","doi":"10.1111/anti.70051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70051","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When powerful technologies emerge, they bring with them questions of frame, view, and narration. Often, these technologies, like Artificial Intelligence (AI), appear to determine what happens on a world stage, even as they are embedded in arrangements of power that elevate particular places, subjects, and ways of seeing. This paper investigates four dominant ways of narrating AI developments in the current moment: <i>labour futures</i>, <i>information integrity</i>, <i>human creativity</i>, and <i>over-reliance on regulation</i>. Through these frames, particular histories and futures are privileged while others are silenced. Drawing on Michel-Rolph Trouillot's concept of the unthinkable in history and Milton Santos’ theories of the used territory alongside Shahidul Alam's concept of the majority world, this paper suggests alternatives to these ways of seeing that emerge from thinking about AI from a majority world perspective. These alternative frames are: <i>technolabour precarity</i>, <i>public contestations and political histories</i>, <i>relationality</i>, and <i>shared problematics</i>. They point towards an understanding of AI that concomitantly reflects the empirical experience of the majority of the people in the world, and points towards AI futures that can match those experiences.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 6","pages":"2259-2281"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204821","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 : 2025-07-15DOI: 10.1111/anti.70055
Christian Lund, Hilary Faxon
{"title":"Agrarian Modernity—Coda","authors":"Christian Lund, Hilary Faxon","doi":"10.1111/anti.70055","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70055","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Around the globe, peasants, migrants, companies, and governments, even the land itself, are doing things that agrarian studies scholars are not anticipating. The changes in the countryside seem increasingly dramatic, challenging Marxist vocabulary and analysis. What is desirable, we suggest, is to complement the classical agrarian question with equally fundamental questions that spring from the side of modernity that Marxism tends to eschew: the episteme of human subjectivity, recognition, and government. A fuller and more satisfactory explanation of agrarian change will arise from a bi-focal investigation of capitalism <i>and</i> liberalism, which together shape land struggles. Thus, in addition to questions of political economy—Who owns what? Who does what? Who gets what? And what do they do with it?—we must integrate fundamental questions of humanism, visibility, and government. In other words: Who are you? Who sees you? Who governs you? And how do they do it?</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 6","pages":"2241-2258"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70055","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204860","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 : 2025-07-14DOI: 10.1111/anti.70050
Deborah Cowen
{"title":"Deadly Lifeworlds Meet Palliative Politics: Struggle in Circulation","authors":"Deborah Cowen","doi":"10.1111/anti.70050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70050","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper locates acute and ongoing crises of coloniality and ecology within struggles over circulation that are anchored in infrastructure. If infrastructure organises movement—including its constraint in carceral forms—then it is also a linchpin for materialising distinct <i>regimes of motion</i> (Nail 2020a; <i>Marx in Motion: A New Materialist Marxism</i>). A regime of motion may be inherently violent, underpinning reproduction for some by interrupting it for others. It may be assembled to sustain imperialism's “expanded reproduction”, curtailing or crushing the plethora of alternative forms to produce premature death. Yet, a focus on struggles over the organisation of motion and, specifically, the contestation of imperial infrastructure, allows the practical assembly of otherwise and alimentary forms to become apprehensible. Journeying through logistics systems that both craft and cut through colonial ecologies, this essay tracks haunted rails, moves across racial and national borders of land, labour, livestock, and the human, and into the intimate space of the singular microbiome. Holding seemingly disparate sites of crisis together, it attends to practices of survivance of those who refuse the violently sculpted borders of life and death. I ask, what infrastructural inheritances usher in this apocalyptic era and how might an immanent politics of care and collaboration—a <i>palliative</i> politics—orient us towards other paths?</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 6","pages":"2326-2348"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-07-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70050","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204856","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 : 2025-06-25DOI: 10.1111/anti.70034
Lucie Sovová, Ottavia Cima, Petr Jehlička, Lilian Pungas, Markus Sattler, Thomas S.J. Smith, Anja Decker, Nadia Johanisova, Sunna Kovanen, Peter North, Polička Collective
{"title":"On Babushkas and Postcapitalism: Theorising Diverse Economies from the Global East","authors":"Lucie Sovová, Ottavia Cima, Petr Jehlička, Lilian Pungas, Markus Sattler, Thomas S.J. Smith, Anja Decker, Nadia Johanisova, Sunna Kovanen, Peter North, Polička Collective","doi":"10.1111/anti.70034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As transformative visions for more just and sustainable societies multiply around the globe, the Diverse and Community Economies approach presents one of the most influential strategies to advance postcapitalist visions. In this paper, we contribute to this project based on our research and activism in the Global East, intended here as Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. We argue that engaging with the Global East is not only a matter of epistemic inclusivity but also a (too-often-neglected) opportunity to learn from a region with a history of dramatic economic transformation and diversity. We highlight examples of community economies already contributing to more-than-human wellbeing, and we present emerging theoretical insights concerning temporality, the multi-sitedness of the enterprise, and diverse economic subjectivities. With that, we articulate our ongoing research agenda and advance conversations with postcapitalist scholarship and politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 6","pages":"2484-2507"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204789","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 : 2025-06-22DOI: 10.1111/anti.70049
Erling Björgvinsson
{"title":"Reconstituting Imagined Communities of Whiteness Through Racial Banishment: The Proposed Deportation Centre at Lindholm and the “Ghetto Law” in Denmark","authors":"Erling Björgvinsson","doi":"10.1111/anti.70049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article links the proposal to establish a deportation centre on the island of Lindholm off the coast of Zealand, Denmark, and its extensive media coverage, with the implementation and media portrayal of the “Ghetto Law” aimed at neighbourhoods of racialised Danish citizens. These cases connect migration and urban studies to examine how external and internal politics intersect through concepts of possessive whiteness, Othering, evictability, and racial banishment, especially regarding migrants and racialised citizens. The article argues that evictability, racial banishment, and whiteness imaginaries are rooted in racial dispossession, mobile containment, and immobilisation to control proximity to whiteness in terms of ownership and civil rights. It further contends that this dynamic reflects colonial hierarchies that create distinctions between, on the one hand, an imagined whiteness characterised by peaceful, secure homogeneity, civility, and prosperity, and, on the other hand, racialised individuals perceived as unreliable, unproductive, and threatening, associated with chaos and disorder.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 6","pages":"2303-2325"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204758","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 : 2025-06-22DOI: 10.1111/anti.70045
Jamie Doucette, Seung-Ook Lee
{"title":"Singapore upon the Korea Strait? Cyberlibertarian Desires and Anxious Regulation in Busan's Blockchain Regulation Free Zone","authors":"Jamie Doucette, Seung-Ook Lee","doi":"10.1111/anti.70045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the intersection of Asia's blockchain industry and special economic zones (SEZs). SEZs have been promoted to localise blockchain technology by disparate actors from cyberlibertarian figures to Asian blockchain firms, national policymakers, and local politicians. This convergence raises questions about what activities are imagined for Asian blockchain zones and what mutations of sovereignty, markets, and democracy they involve? To answer, this article surveys how zones have been imagined for blockchain and examines the case of Korea's Busan Blockchain Regulation-Free Zone (BBRFZ). We discuss competing imaginaries that shape the project, from the laissez-faire fantasy of Busan as a cryptocurrency hub to more “developmentalist” ideas for the zone. We argue that despite its invocation of freedom, the BBRFZ is animated by an <i>anxious</i> regulatory dynamic: one that seeks to promote blockchain as a means for regional development but remains conflicted due to the risks that cyberlibertarian logics of exception might bring.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 5","pages":"1892-1913"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144768017","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 : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1111/anti.70041
Andreas Petrossiants
{"title":"Tenant Composition: Class Struggle from the Point of View of the Home","authors":"Andreas Petrossiants","doi":"10.1111/anti.70041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70041","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Following from Neil Gray's notion of “spatial composition”, in this article I argue that “tenant composition” names a view of the organic composition of workers through the prism of housing and “tenant recomposition”, the process by which divergent subjects recompose through the self-identification and recoding of existing subject-positions codified by housing agreements. I first introduce “tenant composition” as a methodology. Next, I sketch two case studies with this method: one of the largest rent strikes in New York City history that took place at Co-op City in the Bronx from 1975 to 1976, and the undertaking of “auto reduction” (the collective price-setting of consumer goods and services) in Italy during the same period. I argue that because rent is structurally related to the wage-form, thinking about class struggle from the perspective of tenancy evinces modalities for interrupting the reproduction of neoliberal urban subjectivity, acting to abolish the relations that produce those categories in the first place.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 5","pages":"1977-1994"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144768006","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 : 2025-06-18DOI: 10.1111/anti.70046
Gabriel Meier
{"title":"Freedom of Negativity: NAFTA's Legal Form in the Logistical Borderlands","authors":"Gabriel Meier","doi":"10.1111/anti.70046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Capitalism is constituted through specific social forms that ground accumulation and mediate class struggle. This essay tracks capital's <i>legal form</i> through the labyrinthine uptake of trucking liberalisation amidst the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). It argues that juridical contestation over NAFTA—known as the US–Mexico Trucking Dispute—both expresses and conceals class struggle between labour and capital on the one hand, and different fractions of capital on the other. The legal form of NAFTA binds workers into a condition of <i>negative mobility</i> or rather the non-identity of capitalist motion and social organisation for use. At the same time, the legal form is inverted into the “neutral” realm of technical regulation through NAFTA's trucking liberalisation clause. Through a critique of reification, and an empirical unfolding of wage and labour conditions evidence, the essay explicates how living labour is thrown into the social retort of circulation.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 5","pages":"1933-1956"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144768007","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 : 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1111/anti.70044
Nora Komposch
{"title":"Geoviolence: Climate Injustice, Labour Migration, and Intimacy","authors":"Nora Komposch","doi":"10.1111/anti.70044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the context of anthropogenic climate change, it has become increasingly imperative to examine the socio-ecological consequences of human-made environmental degradation as a form of violence. I advance the term “geoviolence” to refer to human actions that increase suffering through the generation, exacerbation, or instrumentalisation of adverse geophysical conditions. Focusing on labour migration dynamics, this article illustrates how geoviolence is exercised by human actors, particularly states. Based on multisited ethnographic research in Morocco and Spain with agricultural workers and their families, I analyse connections between anthropogenic climate change, migration regimes, and intimacy. I argue that the effects of water scarcity, coupled with restrictive migration policies, exacerbate the familial hardships of Moroccan agricultural labourers, thus engendering experiences of geoviolence.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 5","pages":"1914-1932"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767660","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 : 2025-06-17DOI: 10.1111/anti.70047
Christophe Davis
{"title":"The Cancelled Future: Neoliberal Capitalism and the Urban Crisis of Imagination","authors":"Christophe Davis","doi":"10.1111/anti.70047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In an era defined by capitalist realism, our collective ability to imagine futures beyond neoliberal frameworks has been profoundly constrained, giving rise to “cancelled futures”. This imaginative paralysis is particularly evident in urban planning, where gentrification has homogenised urban spaces and created displacement. Looking at Montréal, this paper examines how the crises of capitalist realism and urban commodification have reshaped cities, limiting the possibilities for equitable and inclusive futures. I first demonstrate how capitalist realism perpetuates cancelled futures and facilitates the forces of gentrification. I explore how these dynamics have contributed to the transformation of Montréal's urban landscape, prioritising market-driven development. Second, I turn to memory to argue that the persistence of unrealised pasts can serve as a counterforce to this imaginative stasis. It investigates how memory activism and haunting are mobilised in Montréal to contest the erasures caused by gentrification, allowing residents to reclaim suppressed possibilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 5","pages":"1872-1891"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2025-06-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144767659","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}