AntipodePub Date : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.13013
Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver, Jonathan Silver
{"title":"When the Abu Dhabi United Group Came to Town: Constructing an Organisational Fix for State Capitalism through the Manchester Life Partnership","authors":"Richard Goulding, Adam Leaver, Jonathan Silver","doi":"10.1111/anti.13013","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13013","url":null,"abstract":"<p>For many cities, the entry of financial actors into housing opens new geopolitical relations with overseas entities, including state-backed investors such as sovereign wealth funds. These transformations raise the question of the extent to which real estate enables the urbanisation of state capitalism, understood as the expansion of the state's role as promoter, supervisor, and owner of capital. Our paper answers this question through an analysis of Manchester Life, a residential real estate joint venture between Manchester City Council and the Abu Dhabi United Group, an investment firm linked to the Abu Dhabi royal family. In doing so it explores state capitalism as a form of extended urbanisation, with oil revenues from the Persian Gulf used to extract urban land rents in the Global North. It further highlights urban geopolitical implications, theorising Manchester Life as an organisational fix that reworks the geographies of value extraction while eroding democratic accountability.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"896-921"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13013","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604774","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 : 2023-12-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.13010
Jacob P. Chamberlain
{"title":"Countering Hegemonic Human Rights Norms through Migrant Labour Organising: The Case of Migrant Justice","authors":"Jacob P. Chamberlain","doi":"10.1111/anti.13010","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13010","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article analyses undocumented migrant labour organising in a complicated context and site, the Vermont dairy industry, in relation to Tanya Basok's concept of “counter-hegemonic human rights”. Taking migrant rights organisation Migrant Justice in Burlington, Vermont as a case study, this work examines migrant labour organising that calls upon notions of human rights for economic migrants in the USA. Migrant Justice works through commodity chain labour organising that transcends the scale of the state, calls on moral geographies of consumption and production, and autonomously redistributes not just capital, but power, from the corporation down to workers. An analysis of literature on migrant human rights in relation to labour organising will lead us to problematise mainstream human rights discourse, explore alternative conceptions of rights, and understand the liberatory components of the “counter-hegemonic” employment of human rights by subversive actors, which may truly hold the potentials that mainstream human rights discourse claims.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1212-1232"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138604796","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 : 2023-12-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.13012
Desiree Fields, Emma R. Power, Kenton Card
{"title":"Housing Movements and Care: Rethinking the Political Imaginaries of Housing","authors":"Desiree Fields, Emma R. Power, Kenton Card","doi":"10.1111/anti.13012","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13012","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Care is a practice and form of labour making human survival and flourishing possible. This Symposium explores the place and work of care within housing movements, asking how care operates as a politics, an ethics, and a set of practices through which tenants survive—and ultimately seek to transform—the structural violence of capitalist housing systems. Situated in US cities with abiding associations with Blackness and indigeneity, papers in the Symposium examine housing movements that take care as the starting point. As we discuss in this introduction to the Symposium, in such movements, care operates as connective tissue across households and modes of difference; challenges relations of racial capitalism and settler colonialism that underlie dominant understandings of who deserves and can demand care; and drives calls for public care and experiments with non-propertised forms of ownership. Housing systems are care infrastructures, making housing movements a vital place for care work.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"743-754"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138605489","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 : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1111/anti.13011
Martina Yopo Díaz
{"title":"The Ethics of Self‐Care: Risk, Responsibility, and Reproduction in Chile","authors":"Martina Yopo Díaz","doi":"10.1111/anti.13011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13011","url":null,"abstract":"The meanings of self‐care are complex, ranging from radical political warfare to structural biopolitical governmentality. This paper explores lived tensions of self‐care by analysing women's experiences negotiating pregnancy in Santiago de Chile. Drawing on 40 life story interviews, the findings show that although sexual education, contraception, and abortion remain constrained and structured according to class inequalities, women are expected to care for themselves by managing the risk of pregnancy and assuming responsibility for their reproductive outcomes. I argue that politics of reproduction in Santiago de Chile are shaped by a neoliberal ethics of self‐care that outlines women as autonomous, rational, and self‐regulating agents while neglecting structural constraints that affect whether and when to have children. This neoliberal ethics of self‐care reinforces the overburdening of the self, the feminisation of reproduction, the privatisation of care, and the institutionalisation of carelessness, undermining the subversive and emancipatory potential involved in caring for oneself.","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"18 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139218440","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 : 2023-11-28DOI: 10.1111/anti.13009
Émile Baril
{"title":"Citizen-rentier-ship: Delivering the Undocumented to Labour Platforms in Paris","authors":"Émile Baril","doi":"10.1111/anti.13009","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13009","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Platform food delivery workers have been under much scrutiny over the last couple of years. Undocumented riders, and their recent strikes and protests in France, have not received as much attention as other issues regarding platform labour (contract work, algorithmic control, surveillance). This article follows fieldwork conducted in Paris and interviews with food couriers. Building on work by critical urban studies, migration studies and science and technology studies, this research puts forward citizen-<i>rentier</i>-ship, a tool to understand how multiple parties profit from aspects of precarious status. Interviews with undocumented couriers who worked in Paris highlight how the subletting of accounts, the complicit role of the state, the hypocrisy of employers and the interdependency with the “regularised” put undocumented couriers in hyper-precarious situations. This article concludes that labour laws, misclassification and migration policies are at the centre of the struggles of Paris’ delivery workers and that they need changes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1132-1151"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13009","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139219177","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 : 2023-11-27DOI: 10.1111/anti.13004
Judith Audin
{"title":"Of Other Dreamlands: Vernacular Adaptation, Urban Exploration, and Alternative Spectacles in China's Abandoned Themed Spaces","authors":"Judith Audin","doi":"10.1111/anti.13004","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13004","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article studies social meanings and practices emerging from two abandoned themed spaces in China: disused theme parks and mega-event sites. Theme parks first appeared in the late 1980s–early 1990s, in the emerging leisure economy and society. In the 1990s–early 2000s, mega-event urbanism became a driver of China's urban development and a strategy of national and international legitimacy. Since their abandonment and disuse by official owners, themed spaces have become ruinscapes where workers and visitors produce agency through rubble and ruination. These spaces constitute sites of vernacular occupation through farming, urban exploration, or wedding photography. Abandoned mega-event sites create alternative spectacles of dereliction forming a critique of the original spectacle. Based on urban exploration as an ethnographic method and on fieldwork in Chinese abandoned themed spaces between 2015 and 2019, this article analyses the spatial and social dimensions of abandoned themed spaces in their afterlives as ruins and rubble.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1109-1131"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139230164","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 : 2023-11-23DOI: 10.1111/anti.12999
Diego Astorga de Ita
{"title":"Grassland Geopoetics: Son Jarocho and the Black Sense of Place of Plantations and Pastures","authors":"Diego Astorga de Ita","doi":"10.1111/anti.12999","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.12999","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This essay considers how the grasslands of the Mexican region of El Sotavento entangle with the history of racial capitalism and with traditional Sotaventine music. Throughout this text, I argue that <i>son Jarocho</i> music and its poetics counterpoint racist colonial discourses making space for ways of being beyond racial capitalism. I review the history of Sotaventine grasslands, counterpointing their historical becomings with ethnographic materials and current poetic expressions. I especially focus on two sones: <i>La Caña</i>, written in the 1990s by Patricio Hidalgo Belli regarding sugarcane, and the 18<sup>th</sup> century <i>Toro Zacamandú</i> that speaks of cowboying. Using scholarly writings on the plantation and plantation histories from McKittrick and Glissant, King's work on fungibility, scholarship on Maroon landscapes and marronage, and an array of writers who explore poetics and geopoetics, we shall see how racial capitalism and the historical becomings of plantations and pastures are reflected and overturned in Sotaventine sounds.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"872-895"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12999","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139245052","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 : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1111/anti.12998
Ibán Díaz-Parra, Jose Candón-Mena, Cecilia Zapata
{"title":"Round Trip Policies: Housing and Self-Management, from Europe to Latin America and Back Again","authors":"Ibán Díaz-Parra, Jose Candón-Mena, Cecilia Zapata","doi":"10.1111/anti.12998","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.12998","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Current debates in radical urban studies and comparative urbanism focus in part on the denunciation of universalisation in urban theories as an expression of Eurocentrism. Decolonial and postcolonial scholars risk rejecting general theorising in the name of particularism, difference, and the fragmentary character of the world and reducing every urban policy transmission to the result of colonial relations. On the contrary, it would be more productive for radical scholars to pay attention to common pathways and universalist aspirations of anti-capitalist urban struggles. This paper traces the connections between three experiences of self-managed habitat production, developed by grassroots movements in Latin America and Europe. The comparative case study enables discussion of universalising aspirations of struggles against capitalist urban development. The paper concludes that collective and solidarity-based self-construction is a universal form of production of space, common to any culture at some point and to some extent, and that the self-managed production of habitat is a potentially universal paradigm for current anti-capitalist urban struggles.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 2","pages":"446-468"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.12998","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139249593","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 : 2023-11-21DOI: 10.1111/anti.13008
Sharda Rozena
{"title":"One Kensington Gardens: Buy-to-Leave Gentrification in the Royal Borough","authors":"Sharda Rozena","doi":"10.1111/anti.13008","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13008","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One Kensington Gardens is a large nine-storey luxury apartment building on High Street Kensington. Rarely are there any lights on. The building exemplifies the many buy-to-leave homes in Kensington and Chelsea, the richest local authority in the UK. Looking at these homes from the perspective of residents and councillors who live and work in the borough, I explore how buy-to-leave housing hollows out community, increases the cost of living, sanitises public space, and results in exclusionary and physical displacement. I also identify what role the local authority has in the process of financialising housing in the borough, including how councillors work with developers to make decisions that do not meet the needs of the residents they have been elected to serve. By concentrating on the voice of residents, I show how buy-to-leave homes reinforces the super-gentrification of the borough and becomes another form of gentrification that contributes to displacement.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 3","pages":"1006-1026"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13008","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139253332","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 : 2023-11-20DOI: 10.1111/anti.12996
Shreyas Sreenath
{"title":"When Broken Worlds Churn: The Anti‐Caste Fabulations of Du Saraswathi","authors":"Shreyas Sreenath","doi":"10.1111/anti.12996","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.12996","url":null,"abstract":"How can literary fabulation prompt a reflection on caste, colonial, and capitalist lifeworlds? Engaging with two short stories by the Dalit feminist thinker Du Saraswathi, this article considers the role of fabulation in sparking anti‐caste praxis, decolonial thought, and a reflection on ecological interdependence. Bacchisu (“Tip”) and Honnahelu (“Shit and Gold”) are penned in the context of the sanitation workers’ movement in Karnataka, India and the ongoing struggles of waste workers to assert the dignity of their labour and their ancestral relations. Both stories capture the intimate worlds of solid waste and sewage workers, overwhelmingly from Dalit (ex‐untouchable) communities, as they navigate capitalist debris and the brokenness of caste society. They archive relations between caste overseers and contractual workers, the police and local bureaucracy, and peri‐urban ecologies. Saraswathi's writings explore such political concerns in ways that exceed the circumscribed realism of caste society—mingling Dalit culinary practices, embodied desires, rhythms of collective protest, rapturous encounters with spiritual beings, colonial legacies, and reproductive futures. In a context where Dalit testimonies are doubly silenced by the evidentiary procedures of postcolonial law and retributive violence, how can fabulation bear witness to an anti‐caste reality that integrates spiritual, ecological, and political struggles?","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139255496","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}