AntipodePub Date : 2024-10-01DOI: 10.1111/anti.13098
Silas Grant
{"title":"Gridlock: Infrastructure and Jurisdiction in Eastern Navajo Agency","authors":"Silas Grant","doi":"10.1111/anti.13098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines how settler legal orders in Eastern Navajo Agency produce conditions of impasse that defer investments in life sustaining infrastructures, like roads. Focusing on the conjuncture of infrastructural decay and jurisdictional friction amid an oil and gas boom, I elaborate a concept of “gridlock” as a deadly effect of settler governance. Unfolding stories about road maintenance, school access, and emergency medical transport, the article describes gridlock as a space of both impasse and improvisation that Diné residents inhabit in moving through a region engineered for their immobility.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 1","pages":"169-192"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-10-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13098","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143110513","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 : 2024-09-25DOI: 10.1111/anti.13094
Mohamed El-Shewy, Mark Griffiths, Craig Jones
{"title":"Israel's War on Gaza in a Global Frame","authors":"Mohamed El-Shewy, Mark Griffiths, Craig Jones","doi":"10.1111/anti.13094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13094","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The objective of this article is to set out lines of international complicity in Israel's war on Gaza towards establishing not merely a refreshed agenda for research but also strategic sites of accountability and intervention. The article surveys Israeli military activities in Gaza since the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks, drawing focus on three key points of international military collaboration: the F-16 fighter jet; the GBU type bomb; and the weapons manufacturer, Elbit Systems. We then turn to multiple other geographies of exchange that are visible through a global frame, including military aid, ideological support, and the deployment of military personnel from overseas. The article thus substantiates an argument that Israeli military violence in Gaza depends on a global network of supply, demand, and complicity whose extraneous relationship with the state indicates politically urgent sites of critical inquiry and intervention.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 1","pages":"75-95"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13094","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119138","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 : 2024-09-24DOI: 10.1111/anti.13093
Thomas Dekeyser, Casey R. Lynch
{"title":"Control and Resistance in Automated Shops: Retail Transparency, Deep Learning, and Digital Refusal","authors":"Thomas Dekeyser, Casey R. Lynch","doi":"10.1111/anti.13093","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13093","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Through the enrolment of big data, deep learning, sensor fusion, and computer vision technologies, Amazon Go and similar shops pursue the automated management of retail subjects, goods, and transactions. Tracing the logics of automated shop technology, the paper makes two contributions. First, it proposes a theory of “retail transparency” to attend to how automated shops reimagine space as a series of pockets of excess (actions that escape circuits of capitalist valuation) to be countered through acts of making-transparent (datafication for integration into digital systems of control). Retail transparency is underpinned by interventions aimed at perceiving, incorporating, and productivising excess. Second, we argue that logics of deep learning raise important challenges to traditional conceptions of resistance in digital geographies, as these tend to rely on a celebration or cultivation of excess. Instead, we offer a speculative reflection outlining a politics of “circuit-breaking” which refuses to engage algorithmic logics on their own terms.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 1","pages":"53-74"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13093","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143118992","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 : 2024-09-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13092
Marlotte de Jong, Ember McCoy, Bilal Butt
{"title":"From Coercive to Carceral Conservation: Reframing Conservation through Abolition Ecologies","authors":"Marlotte de Jong, Ember McCoy, Bilal Butt","doi":"10.1111/anti.13092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13092","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Critical social science research on conservation practice has long articulated the tactics that emerge out of a history of carcerality, environmental racism, colonialism, and violence against oppressed peoples. Despite these critiques, there has been little change in how conservation is conceptualised and implemented, resulting in the continuation of violence, racism, and injustice. Abolition ecologies offer a framework to see the world through a carceral lens and imagine an abolitionist future for conservation. Using Kenya as a case study, we outline the three ways that carcerality is apparent in and integral to contemporary conservation practices: legal/juridical, technoscience, and privatisation. Illuminating the carcerality of conservation practices, we posit, allows scholars and practitioners to begin to imagine and work towards a more just and liberatory conservation movement, one that minimises the perpetuation and reproduction of white supremacy, violence, and environmental injustice.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 1","pages":"31-52"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13092","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143113651","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 : 2024-09-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.13086
Sarah Kunz
{"title":"Offshore Citizenship: “Diversified Citizenship Portfolios” and the Regulatory Arbitrage of Global Wealth Elites","authors":"Sarah Kunz","doi":"10.1111/anti.13086","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13086","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper reads the sale of citizenship via citizenship-by-investment (CBI) programmes through an offshore lens. Scholarship on offshore industries has long positioned citizenship sales as part of offshore capitalism—without exploring the phenomenon in any depth. Research on CBI, in turn, has with some notable exceptions neglected the phenomenon's offshore nature. This paper argues that CBI is an outgrowth and increasingly integral part of offshore capitalism, offering a new form of what Susan Roberts calls “regulatory arbitrage”, aiding elite wealth accumulation and power. The paper establishes this relationship by examining the countries and firms selling citizenship, their marketing strategies and customers and, crucially, the nature of the product which rests on the three “offshore pillars”, as described by Ronen Palan—virtual residency, easy incorporation, and secrecy. Conceptualising CBI as an offshore provision can transform how the phenomenon is understood and opens new avenues of thinking about its socio-structural role and impact in an unequal world.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 6","pages":"2180-2201"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13086","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429301","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 : 2024-08-28DOI: 10.1111/anti.13091
Michael Mikulewicz
{"title":"Resisting Post-Political Adaptation to Climate Change: How a Small Community Stood Up to Big Development","authors":"Michael Mikulewicz","doi":"10.1111/anti.13091","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13091","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent critical scholarship has brought attention to local resistance in the spaces of adaptation, with reported instances of local communities rejecting planned adaptation interventions around the world. As adaptation funding is only expected to grow, so should our understanding of this resistance. In this article, I investigate one such dispute where residents of a small village in São Tomé and Príncipe refused to participate in an adaptation project implemented by the national government and the United Nations Development Programme. I ground my analysis in the literature on post-politics and discuss the community's resistance as a Rancièrian “political interruption” of the post-political adaptation configuration in the country. I also investigate the factors that arguably led to local resistance, including the residents’ disillusion with what I term Big Development, and their political subjectivation through a local grassroots initiative. The paper concludes with reflections on countering the post-politics of adaptation as a prerequisite for more democratic and equitable local climate governance.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 6","pages":"2224-2252"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142430329","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 : 2024-08-14DOI: 10.1111/anti.13090
Luke Billingham, Fraser Curry, Stephen Crossley
{"title":"Sports Cages as Social Infrastructure: Sociality, Context, and Contest in Hackney's Cages","authors":"Luke Billingham, Fraser Curry, Stephen Crossley","doi":"10.1111/anti.13090","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13090","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The concept of social infrastructure has experienced a rapid rise to prominence in recent years, both in academia and in policy. In this article, we explore a case study of cages (also known as Multi-Use Games Areas) in Hackney, North-East London. We argue that cages are forms of urban infrastructure which can facilitate multiple forms of sociality—especially for young people—and can thus be deemed valuable social infrastructure. However, this value can only be understood in context—in relation to the joys and harms of growing up in Hackney—and as in contest—the status and meaning of the cage is different for different groups, and there are considerable tensions over their use, ownership, and management. In our examination of the cage, we aim to explore and build upon existing conceptions of social infrastructure.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 6","pages":"2021-2041"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13090","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142430023","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":"Uneven Development through Profit Repatriation: How Capitalism's Class and Geographical Antagonisms Intertwine","authors":"Christof Parnreiter, Laszlo Steinwärder, Klara Kolhoff","doi":"10.1111/anti.13089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13089","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of global profit repatriation as a mechanism of uneven development, thereby challenging the development model of Foreign Direct Investment. Between 2005 and 2020, transnational corporations repatriated an annual average of one trillion USD, corresponding each year to 4.2% of the global FDI stock. Net profit flows take on a centripetal form: the biggest net losers are middle-income countries such as the Russian Federation, Brazil, and Nigeria; the winners are a few high-income countries, above all the United States. By analysing the impact of profit repatriation on accumulation dynamics in net profit exporting and importing countries, and by examining the exploitative conditions under which profits are generated in the former, we situate our findings in current theoretical debates on uneven development and geographical transfer of value, as well as on the intertwining of capitalism's class and geographical antagonisms.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 6","pages":"2343-2367"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13089","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142429978","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 : 2024-08-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13084
Julie Cupples, Charlotte Gleghorn, Dixie Lee, Raquel Ribeiro
{"title":"Making Space for the Maritorio: Raizal Dispossession and the Geopoetic Imagination in the San Andrés Archipelago","authors":"Julie Cupples, Charlotte Gleghorn, Dixie Lee, Raquel Ribeiro","doi":"10.1111/anti.13084","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13084","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Drawing in part on the work of Édouard Glissant, this article explores how the Raizal population of the San Andrés Archipelago in the Caribbean mobilises the concept of <i>maritorio</i> as an archipelagic geopoetic vessel with emancipatory potential. This concept disrupts dominant land/sea binaries that result from and are rooted in geopolitical mechanisms and colonial fantasies. The San Andrés Archipelago is administratively and politically part of Colombia, but the Raizal people of the Archipelago share a long colonial and postcolonial history with Black Creole people elsewhere in the Anglophone Caribbean, especially the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua, based on diverse forms of economic, familial, and cultural exchange and marine mobilities. For many years, the status of the Archipelago was the basis of a dispute between Nicaragua and Colombia at the International Court of Justice, who ruled in 2012 that the islands were in fact Colombian while Nicaragua gained 75,000 km<sup>2</sup> of sea. This ruling was devastating for the Raizales, fragmenting their maritorio and further thwarting Black mobilities and cultural exchange across the region. Legal-geopolitical dislocations applied to the islands and the sea exacerbated structural conditions of racial and environmental injustice, while geopoetic responses by Raizal people to this state of affairs serve to confront colonial dispossession, ecological damage, and the ideological fixities of the Eurocentric nation-state.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 6","pages":"2042-2063"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141926237","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}