AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-19DOI: 10.1111/anti.70195
Irina Zamfirescu
{"title":"Objects and Evictions: The Politics of Things and the Reshaping of Urban Marginality","authors":"Irina Zamfirescu","doi":"10.1111/anti.70195","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70195","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Scholars have extensively documented different forms of violence experienced by homeless and evictable people, but paid less attention to how their material belongings are handled by the perpetrators of violence. Based on the method of engaged anthropology, the article identified three main regimes of handling material belongings during evictions in Bucharest. One is home-reenactment objects, that is the reconstruction of home in public spaces through salvaged belongings. The second is turning objects to non-objects, through the classification of home objects as trash by the agents of forced evictions. The third is blackmail objects, that is using belongings to force the evictees into abandoning any form of resistance. Turning to objects and the materiality of evictions helps understand both short-term and long-term forms of dispossession in evictions and homelessness and the materiality of the right to the city.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70195","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783848","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 : 2026-08-17DOI: 10.1111/anti.70193
Danai Avgeri
{"title":"Beyond the Methodological Fix: Militant Research, Academic Capture and the Politics of Irresolution in Crisis Borderlands","authors":"Danai Avgeri","doi":"10.1111/anti.70193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines scholar-activist methodologies in spaces saturated by humanitarian, media and academic attention to migrant mobility. Drawing on research on the Greek migration regime, it demonstrates how commitments to ‘giving voice’, ‘democratising knowledge’ and ‘reflexivity’ can reproduce the very power asymmetries they claim to contest, particularly in ‘crisis’ settings. Engaging traditions of militant research, feminist discomfort, refusal and studying up, I argue that oppositional methods are routinely captured by the political economy of academia in ways that methodological innovation alone cannot resolve. Rather than proposing another methodological fix, the paper advances a <i>politics of irresolution</i>—an orientation that inhabits contradiction without resolving it into methodological closure, ethical tranquillity or political self-assurance. Instead of seeking seamless fusion between political organising and research, I explore how their strategic differentiation, what I call <i>militant splitting</i>, may at times be necessary to sustain contradiction without collapsing into performative coherence.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783548","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 : 2026-08-17DOI: 10.1111/anti.70194
Federico Ferretti
{"title":"Decolonisation Versus “Balkanisation”: Radical and Diasporic Geographies of PAI (Parti Africain de l'Indépendance) in Paris","authors":"Federico Ferretti","doi":"10.1111/anti.70194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper analyses the activities of PAI (<i>Parti Africain de l'Indépendance</i>) from 1957 to 1963 in Paris and more broadly in France, where PAI was one of the most radical groups fighting for decolonisation, initially taking the form of a transnational and diasporic federation. PAI opposed both the ‘balkanisation’ of colonial territories across national boundaries, and neo-colonialism understood as the persistence of capitalist exploitation. For these reasons, PAI was outlawed in Africa after the 1960 ‘independences’. Based on new archival sources that allow investigating imagined and material geographies of PAI, this paper argues for divorcing anticolonialism from nationalism and other particularisms that hindered decolonial projects, by analysing alternative geographical imaginations proposed by radical groups, which expose the performative roles that diasporic spaces can play. Although radical anticolonial voices were often not heard, they can nourish current debates on how nation-states and exclusionary models of ‘community’, remain instruments to perpetuate coloniality.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783547","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 : 2026-08-17DOI: 10.1111/anti.70193
Danai Avgeri
{"title":"Beyond the Methodological Fix: Militant Research, Academic Capture and the Politics of Irresolution in Crisis Borderlands","authors":"Danai Avgeri","doi":"10.1111/anti.70193","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70193","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines scholar-activist methodologies in spaces saturated by humanitarian, media and academic attention to migrant mobility. Drawing on research on the Greek migration regime, it demonstrates how commitments to ‘giving voice’, ‘democratising knowledge’ and ‘reflexivity’ can reproduce the very power asymmetries they claim to contest, particularly in ‘crisis’ settings. Engaging traditions of militant research, feminist discomfort, refusal and studying up, I argue that oppositional methods are routinely captured by the political economy of academia in ways that methodological innovation alone cannot resolve. Rather than proposing another methodological fix, the paper advances a <i>politics of irresolution</i>—an orientation that inhabits contradiction without resolving it into methodological closure, ethical tranquillity or political self-assurance. Instead of seeking seamless fusion between political organising and research, I explore how their strategic differentiation, what I call <i>militant splitting</i>, may at times be necessary to sustain contradiction without collapsing into performative coherence.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70193","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783546","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 : 2026-08-17DOI: 10.1111/anti.70194
Federico Ferretti
{"title":"Decolonisation Versus “Balkanisation”: Radical and Diasporic Geographies of PAI (Parti Africain de l'Indépendance) in Paris","authors":"Federico Ferretti","doi":"10.1111/anti.70194","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70194","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper analyses the activities of PAI (<i>Parti Africain de l'Indépendance</i>) from 1957 to 1963 in Paris and more broadly in France, where PAI was one of the most radical groups fighting for decolonisation, initially taking the form of a transnational and diasporic federation. PAI opposed both the ‘balkanisation’ of colonial territories across national boundaries, and neo-colonialism understood as the persistence of capitalist exploitation. For these reasons, PAI was outlawed in Africa after the 1960 ‘independences’. Based on new archival sources that allow investigating imagined and material geographies of PAI, this paper argues for divorcing anticolonialism from nationalism and other particularisms that hindered decolonial projects, by analysing alternative geographical imaginations proposed by radical groups, which expose the performative roles that diasporic spaces can play. Although radical anticolonial voices were often not heard, they can nourish current debates on how nation-states and exclusionary models of ‘community’, remain instruments to perpetuate coloniality.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70194","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148783545","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 : 2026-08-07DOI: 10.1111/anti.70179
Clara Pérez Medina
{"title":"Framing Displacement, Forcing Perspective: Black Visual Geographies and the Crisis of Homelessness in Oakland","authors":"Clara Pérez Medina","doi":"10.1111/anti.70179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70179","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While Black and visual geographies have examined the image's racial and spatial power, more work is needed to analyze how racial frames of view become spatially embedded. This paper advances such a practice by analyzing news images of homelessness in Oakland. Methodologically, I analyze images for photographic techniques of depth of field, scale, color, and composition and how they construct subjects, race, and space. Empirically, I find that these images present homelessness as a (Black) problem to be solved in an otherwise unproblematic white visual order by: (1) rendering homeless people faceless yet over-identified by their blackness; (2) visually portraying encampments as disruptive to logics of orderliness, market logics, and racial harmony; and (3) visually constructing encampments as out-of-place domestic spaces against norms of private social reproduction. I argue that these visual-spatial strategies further a <i>forced perspective</i> that communicates an artificial sense of white spatial normativity and inevitable Black non-belonging.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70179","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753105","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 : 2026-08-07DOI: 10.1111/anti.70190
Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg
{"title":"Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia","authors":"Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg","doi":"10.1111/anti.70190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70190","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio-ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions. We propose the concept of ‘fluid toxicities’ to refer to the wateriness of toxic contamination in amphibious urban spaces marked by histories of harm linked to the city's colonial-racial formations. Drawing on ethnographic work, we argue the unrelenting flows of toxicities dilute historical trajectories of racialised dispossession, overlapping forms of violence and environmental degradation, shaping both embodied endurance, mundane relations of care and collective forms of contestation. We further introduce the concept of ‘violent affective ecologies’ to show how the violence of toxic environments is mediated through sensory, emotional and relational engagements with contaminated waters. Environmental futures are imagined through entanglements of racial ecologies and toxic ecologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70190","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753103","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 : 2026-08-07DOI: 10.1111/anti.70190
Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg
{"title":"Fluid Toxicities: Violent Affective Ecologies in Cartagena, Colombia","authors":"Laura Neville, Silke Oldenburg","doi":"10.1111/anti.70190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70190","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Water is at the centre of climate change emergency concerns in coastal cities. It constitutes here a fluid entry point to investigating the socio-ecological politics of toxicities for residents dwelling with and against contaminated waters in Cartagena, Colombia's urban extensions. We propose the concept of ‘fluid toxicities’ to refer to the wateriness of toxic contamination in amphibious urban spaces marked by histories of harm linked to the city's colonial-racial formations. Drawing on ethnographic work, we argue the unrelenting flows of toxicities dilute historical trajectories of racialised dispossession, overlapping forms of violence and environmental degradation, shaping both embodied endurance, mundane relations of care and collective forms of contestation. We further introduce the concept of ‘violent affective ecologies’ to show how the violence of toxic environments is mediated through sensory, emotional and relational engagements with contaminated waters. Environmental futures are imagined through entanglements of racial ecologies and toxic ecologies.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70190","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753104","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 : 2026-08-07DOI: 10.1111/anti.70179
Clara Pérez Medina
{"title":"Framing Displacement, Forcing Perspective: Black Visual Geographies and the Crisis of Homelessness in Oakland","authors":"Clara Pérez Medina","doi":"10.1111/anti.70179","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70179","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While Black and visual geographies have examined the image's racial and spatial power, more work is needed to analyze how racial frames of view become spatially embedded. This paper advances such a practice by analyzing news images of homelessness in Oakland. Methodologically, I analyze images for photographic techniques of depth of field, scale, color, and composition and how they construct subjects, race, and space. Empirically, I find that these images present homelessness as a (Black) problem to be solved in an otherwise unproblematic white visual order by: (1) rendering homeless people faceless yet over-identified by their blackness; (2) visually portraying encampments as disruptive to logics of orderliness, market logics, and racial harmony; and (3) visually constructing encampments as out-of-place domestic spaces against norms of private social reproduction. I argue that these visual-spatial strategies further a <i>forced perspective</i> that communicates an artificial sense of white spatial normativity and inevitable Black non-belonging.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70179","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148753107","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 : 2026-08-06DOI: 10.1111/anti.70192
Kapil Yadav, Emma Tebbs, Kate Schreckenberg
{"title":"Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India's Political Forests","authors":"Kapil Yadav, Emma Tebbs, Kate Schreckenberg","doi":"10.1111/anti.70192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70192","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Why does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire's ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons but as a political technology of state territorial control. Drawing on archival research and interviews, we trace how colonial era legal and institutional frameworks criminalising community fire use have been carried across successive policy shifts, from timber extraction to biodiversity conservation to carbon sequestration, centralising authority over forest landscapes and reordering ecologies to serve external interests over local populations. Political forests, however, are not only state projects. Forest-dwelling communities sustain relational lifeworlds through fire practices that exceed the logics of state and capital. Recognising fire suppression as a political tool demands reckoning with the colonial legal frameworks that sustain it and opens the possibility for more just and ecologically grounded fire futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752840","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}