AntipodePub Date : 2025-04-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.70020
Julija Kekstaite, Robin Vandevoordt
{"title":"Departheid in the Post-Soviet Space? The Shifting Geopolitics and Racialisation of Migration Governance in Lithuania","authors":"Julija Kekstaite, Robin Vandevoordt","doi":"10.1111/anti.70020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper analyses the intersection of geopolitics and racialisation in EUrope's migration governance by zooming in on the specific case of Lithuania. Since 2021, Lithuania has seen the arrival of migrants from Africa and the Middle East along with Belarusian citizens fleeing the Lukashenko regime and Ukrainian citizens escaping Russia's war in Ukraine. While these mobilities have occurred in parallel, they have evoked a strict categorical hierarchy in the Lithuanian government's discourse and policy response. By bringing Barak Kalir's (2019; <i>Conflict and Society</i> 5:19–40) concept of Departheid into conversation with a growing body of work on race, coloniality, and double hegemony in Eastern Europe, this paper proposes an understanding of Lithuania's migration governance through the intersection of race and geopolitics. As Lithuania wrestles between Western and Russian influences, its ambition of belonging to the “European space” is marked by geopolitical manoeuvres meant to distance Lithuania from the “authoritarian East” and reverberations of coloniality that delineate the expanding horizons of European power. Thus, we argue that the Lithuanian government's response to migration should be understood as a form of Departheid that is distinct to East European countries in the post-Soviet space.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1557-1575"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244996","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 : 2025-04-09DOI: 10.1111/anti.70022
Hannah Kass
{"title":"“Trees give life. Police take it”: Building and Fighting for Abolitionist Life-Worlds, from the Weelaunee Forest to Georgia's Jails","authors":"Hannah Kass","doi":"10.1111/anti.70022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70022","url":null,"abstract":"<p>DeKalb County, Georgia has been mired in a struggle to defend its forest against the development of a militarised police training facility known as “Cop City”. Drawing on autoethnographic research as a criminalised forest defender and the Stop Cop City movement's social history, I show how forest defenders created abolitionist possibilities beyond policing and prisons within two spaces of struggle: the Weelaunee forest, where forest defenders built and fought for a life-affirming, cop-free ecosystem; and inside Georgia's jails, where forest defenders incarcerated for alleged participation in the struggle built solidarity and fought for collective survival. The movement's strategy of “building and fighting” using <i>insurrectionary</i>, <i>autonomous</i>, and <i>procedural</i> abolitionist tactics has accomplished what abolition geographers call the <i>radical place-making</i> of <i>abolitionist life-worlds.</i> Wielding eco-defence and disruptive protest while prefiguring worlds where criminalised people and communities prevail even in the deadliest of places, forest defenders have undermined carceral state power.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1536-1556"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70022","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244192","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 : 2025-04-07DOI: 10.1111/anti.70018
Luis David Castillo Rojas, Benjamin Lévy
{"title":"Landowners Meet Drug Traffickers: Coercive Networks and Violence in Rural Colombia","authors":"Luis David Castillo Rojas, Benjamin Lévy","doi":"10.1111/anti.70018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The transport of drugs and the flow of drug proceeds have a major impact on the social and economic configuration of the rural areas affected by them. Though this is widely acknowledged, the impact of illicit economies on agrarian social conflicts remains unclear. Using the case of the marijuana trade in the agrarian societies of the Magdalena department in Colombia, we show that drug trafficking fostered a narco-bourgeoisie, formed by the intertwining of the legal and illegal worlds of landowners and drug traffickers. We argue that this process had a major impact on social conflict, as this new criminalised elite was considerably more prone to the use of violence. We propose three mechanisms to explain this: the exposure of this criminalised elite to multiple attacks, their proximity to the market for violence, and their political influence.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1402-1425"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244508","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}
{"title":"Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co-Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production","authors":"Mariel Aguilar-Støen, Jostein Jakobsen, Mads Barbesgaard, Rebecca Leigh Rutt, Ada Eldevik-Stjernqvist","doi":"10.1111/anti.70021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political-economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of relations rather than a place”, emphasising how capitalist production, ecological disruption, and pathogen circulation intersect. From this relational standpoint, epicentres emerge as intersections of multiple capitals, rather than isolated points. Using HPAI in global poultry production as an illustration, we argue that biosecurity measures shaped by epicentre thinking often bolster industrial expansion while deflecting systemic critique. We conclude with a five-point research agenda for a relational geographical approach to disease outbreaks, highlighting turnover times, cost and risk distribution, producer incorporation, labour regimes, and governance mechanisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1320-1341"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244511","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 : 2025-04-01DOI: 10.1111/anti.70017
Jiun Bang
{"title":"Extraterritorial Displacement: The Transnational Meaning of National Flags during Contentious Politics and the Far Right","authors":"Jiun Bang","doi":"10.1111/anti.70017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Flags often intervene in the image space of protests, though the common assumption would be to match the nationality of the flags with their territorial site of protest rather than consider their extraterritorial displacement—how does one go about interpreting seemingly unfamiliar couplings such as the national flags of South Korea, the US, and Israel? This article argues that by taking a transformative approach that ultimately allows national flags to be decoupled from territorial borders, it is possible to extract important insights about how the domestic might interface with the transnational. Specifically, the article isolates the Korean Protestant right and their ideology behind the phenomenon of the triple waving of the South Korea–US–Israeli flags to illustrate how this serves as the focal point for (i) the reinforcement of the transnational far-right agenda such as anti-LGBTQI rights, anti-immigration, and Islamophobia; and (ii) the rearticulation of imperial structures of politics.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 4","pages":"1342-1363"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144244453","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 : 2025-03-24DOI: 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}