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}
AntipodePub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.13129
Peter Teunissen
{"title":"Infrastructures, Riverscapes, and the Governance of Mobility: The Evros/Meriç River and the Infrastructuring of Nature","authors":"Peter Teunissen","doi":"10.1111/anti.13129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13129","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates the interplay between infrastructures, geophysical environments, and mobility regimes by focusing on the Evros/Meriç River, as the border between Turkey, Greece, and the EU. Situated in the fields of Infrastructure Studies, Mobility Studies, and Critical Border Studies, this paper examines how border regimes are enrolled in the riverscape, thereby shaping who can cross the river-as-border and under what conditions. Through an interdisciplinary research practice of “montaging”, which integrates ethnographic research, literary and visual analysis, cartography, and textual analysis, this paper analyses how geophysical environments and socio-technical formations co-constitute racialising border regimes. Using the conceptual framework of infrastructure as ecology, this paper highlights the relationality between geophysical environments, border regimes, and how people-on-the-move navigate these landscapes. In so doing, this paper explores a critical way of thinking about “natural borders” and “infrastructures” and aims to put forward analytical tools for documenting and analysing bordering practices.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"691-713"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252641","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 : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1111/anti.13128
Sarah Rotz, Daniel Rück, Joseph LeBlanc
{"title":"Farming the North: Cycles of Extraction and Dispossession","authors":"Sarah Rotz, Daniel Rück, Joseph LeBlanc","doi":"10.1111/anti.13128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13128","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper examines recent initiatives to expand farming in Northern Ontario, Canada, situating these within the historical context of settler colonial agriculture. We ask: how do contemporary efforts in agricultural expansion differ from, or replicate, earlier forms of land acquisition? Focusing on land assembly, we explore how land consolidation, privatisation, and conversion meet agricultural and economic objectives under contemporary colonial capitalism. We consider whether agricultural expansion reinforces narratives that valorise settler agriculture and/or perpetuates patterns of dispossession. Through privatisation and competitive marketisation of “underutilised” lands, agricultural expansion may reconfigure land ownership in ways that serve capital interests and, primarily, settler agricultural entities. This case highlights the role of agricultural development and the interdependence of corporate and state actors in extending financialised land economies, potentially undermining Indigenous food sovereignty, jurisdiction, and autonomy.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"622-648"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13128","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252642","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 : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13127
Aidan While, John Pendlebury
{"title":"Heritage Protection as Progressive Urbanism? Modernist Social Housing in England","authors":"Aidan While, John Pendlebury","doi":"10.1111/anti.13127","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13127","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Heritage protection can sometimes disrupt the remaking and reimaging of cities by prioritising and protecting alternatives based on non-market values of architectural and historical significance. In England, the “post-war listing” programme has positioned state heritage protection as an unlikely advocate and defender (sometimes of last resort) of the diminishing material and symbolic legacy of the architecture of the welfare state and its socialist values from the 1950s and 1960s. In this paper, we explore what might be at stake ideologically, materially, and symbolically in the protection of post-war architectural heritage in England. While post-war listing has creating scope for alternatives, its subaltern role (in and against the state) has been limited in various ways by state strategies of market-based regeneration that erode and marginalise social housing and welfarist rights to the city. Although heritage protection has been only a minor irritant in the politics of regeneration, the paper explores what might be at stake for the Left in engaging more explicitly with heritage building protection and the selectivity of heritage value.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"734-757"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13127","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248949","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 : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13123
R.C. Sudheesh
{"title":"From Land Reform to Landfare: Land Claims and the Welfare State in Kerala, India","authors":"R.C. Sudheesh","doi":"10.1111/anti.13123","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13123","url":null,"abstract":"<p>While large-scale land reform may still be underway in many countries, other contexts have states responding to land claims through scattered land provision measures. This article puts forward “landfare” as a lens to capture such measures and unpacks its features in one location. The article first explains this term, outlining its location in and departure from the land reform scholarship. It next shows how Kerala, India, widely cited in the scholarship for its 20<sup>th</sup> century land reform, addresses the land claims of its Adivasi citizens in the 21<sup>st</sup> century through landfare. Through an exploration of Adivasi land claims and an examination of state responses in Kerala, the article argues that landfare can work through four key modes—obfuscation, withholding available land, projectisation, and welfare fix. Unlike the “land-to-the-tiller” goals of 20<sup>th</sup> century land reform, 21<sup>st</sup> century landfare can be aimed at extinguishingland struggles.</p><p>ലോകത്തിൽ പലയിടങ്ങളിലും വിസ്തൃതമായ ഭൂപരിഷ്കരണം ഇന്നും നടപ്പിലാക്കപ്പെടുന്നുണ്ടെങ്കിലും മറ്റു പലയിടങ്ങളിലും ഭൂമിക്കു വേണ്ടിയുള്ള അവകാശവാദങ്ങളോട് സ്റ്റേറ്റ് പ്രതികരിക്കുന്നത് ചിതറിയ ഭൂമി വിതരണ പദ്ധതികൾവഴിയാണ്. ഇവയെ മനസ്സിലാക്കാൻ ഈ ലേഖനം ‘ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർ' എന്ന ആശയം മുന്നോട്ടുവയ്ക്കുകയും കേരളത്തിൽ ഇതിൻ്റെ പ്രത്യേകതകൾ എന്തൊക്കെയെന്ന് അന്വേഷിക്കുകയും ചെയ്യുന്നു. ഈ ആശയത്തെ ഭൂപരിഷ്കരണവുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട പഠനങ്ങളുടെ വെളിച്ചത്തിൽ വിശദീകരിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് ലേഖനം തുടങ്ങുന്നു. ഭൂപരിഷ്കരണത്തിന് പേരുകേട്ട കേരളം ഇന്ന് ആദിവാസി ഭൂസമരങ്ങളോട് ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർ വഴി എങ്ങനെ പ്രതികരിക്കുന്നു എന്ന് അന്വേഷിച്ചുകൊണ്ട് ലേഖനം തുടരുന്നു. ഭൂമിയുമായി ബന്ധപ്പെട്ട വിവരങ്ങളിൽ അവ്യക്തത പാലിക്കുക, സ്റ്റേറ്റ് നിയന്ത്രണത്തിൽ വരാവുന്ന ഭൂമി നല്കാതിരിക്കുക, ഭൂവിതരണത്തെ പദ്ധതിവത്ക്കരിക്കുക, ക്ഷേമപദ്ധതികൾ കൊണ്ട് പ്രശ്നപരിഹാരം കണ്ടെത്തുക എന്നീ നാലു രീതികളിലാണ് ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർ ഇവിടെ പ്രധാനമായും പ്രവർത്തിക്കുന്നത് എന്ന് കാണിക്കുന്നു. അടിസ്ഥാനവർഗത്തിന് ഭൂമി എന്ന ആശയത്തിൽനിന്നു മാറി ഭൂസമരങ്ങളെ തടയാനുള്ള ഉപാധിയായി ലാൻഡ്ഫെയർപ്രവർത്തിക്കാം എന്ന് ലേഖനം വാദിക്കുന്നു.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"670-690"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248948","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 : 2024-12-18DOI: 10.1111/anti.13124
Sean P. Smith
{"title":"Discursive Extraction: Language, Value, and Capital in Myanmar's Tourism Frontier","authors":"Sean P. Smith","doi":"10.1111/anti.13124","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13124","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The mid-2010s tourism boom in Myanmar (Burma) shows how discourse creates and extracts value in tourism frontiers. Building on studies documenting tourism's operation as an extractive industry, interviews with 60 tourists, residents, and industry stakeholders in Myanmar in 2018–20 reveal that tourism in frontiers is oriented by an extractivist logic. The high-value symbolic goods pursued by tourists are experiences with people who are otherised as “premodern”, which tourists accumulate and exchange on a linguistic market in a process described as <i>discursive extraction</i>. What is theorised as an extractive relation grounded in colonial hierarchies of value commodifies people and places as repositories of symbolic capital, supporting the territorialisation of spaces for tourism development and revealing discourse to be a constitutive force in the extractive geographies of tourism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"649-669"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13124","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252785","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}