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}
AntipodePub Date : 2024-12-11DOI: 10.1111/anti.13125
Kendra Kintzi
{"title":"Deserts of Wind: Aeolian-Pastoralism and the Limits of Climate Finance in Jordan","authors":"Kendra Kintzi","doi":"10.1111/anti.13125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13125","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Around the world, a growing cadre of investors are banking on profitability of climate change through the interface of national energy transition programmes. In Jordan, national energy transition ushered in over US$1 billion in investment capital to construct 621 MW of new wind power along the arid hilltops of Tafila and Ma'an. This article situates the contested dynamics of Jordan's wind farm development within the shifting landscape of global climate finance and land futures. The transformation of southwestern Jordan's hillsides illustrates key tensions at work within the emergence of a new, renewable asset class: utility-scale commercial wind farms, as they materialise through the unfolding project of extracting value from increasingly marginal landscapes. I argue that the transformation of Jordan's deserts reveals a key limit to the growth of climate finance, as anticipated returns on bankable projects can only be realised through contingent negotiations that entangle social, political, and electrical grid stability. At the margins of the new wind farms, local herders were able to negotiate partial usufruct rights to maintain access to grazing lands around the turbines. This arrangement reveals the subtle paradox of toiling in the margins: while hybrid land arrangements may sustain rural livelihoods for some groups, this partial amelioration permits the expansion of financial architectures that hollow out the foundations of rural-urban life. Beyond Jordan, this article advances insights towards grounding scholarship on energy transitions, climate finance, and agrarian change through contradictory processes of de/stabilisation and ongoing negotiations over land and livelihoods at the climate finance frontier.</p><p>حول العالم، يعتمد بعض المستثمرين على الربح الناتج عن تغير المناخ من خلال برامج التحول الوطني للطاقة. ففي الأردن، أدى تحول البلاد في مجال الطاقة إلى تدفق أكثر من مليار دولار من رأس المال الاستثماري لبناء 621 ميغاواط جديدة لتوليد طاقة الرياح على قمم التلال في محافظتي الطفيلة ومعان. هذه المقال يناقش الديناميكيات المتنازع عليها لتطوير مزارع الرياح في الأردن في إطار المشهد المتغير للتمويل المناخي العالمي ومستقبل الأراضي. إن التحول الذي شهدته سفوح التلال في جنوب غرب الأردن يعتبر شاهداً على التوترات الرئيسية التي تظهر على شكل فئة جديدة من الأصول المتجددة بما في ذلك مزارع الرياح التجارية على نطاق المرافق، حيث تتجسد من خلال المشروع على شكل اظهار لقيمة الجمالية من المناظر الطبيعية التي كانت مهمشة بشكل متزايد. هذا المقال يجادل بأن تحول صحاري الأردن يكشف عن محدد رئيسي لنمو التمويل المناخي، حيث لا يمكن تحقيق العائد المتوقع للمشاريع القابلة للتمويل إلا من خلال المفاوضات التي تتداخل مع الاستقرار الاجتماعي والسياسي واستقرار الشبكة الكهربائية. وعلى هامش مزارع الرياح الجديدة، تمكن الرعاة السكان المحليون من التفاوض على حقوق الانتفاع الجزئية للحفاظ على امتياز الانتفاع من أراضي الرعي المحيطة بالتوربينات. ويكشف هذا الترتيب عن مفارقة دقيقة حول صعوبة العمل على الهامش: ففي حين قد تدعم ترتيبات الأراضي الهجينة سبل العيش الريفية لبعض المجموعات، هذا التحسن ا","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 6","pages":"2124-2146"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204884","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 : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1111/anti.13126
Maxim Tvorun-Dunn
{"title":"Neoliberalism's Imagined Futures: Sustainability as Colonialism in Eco-City Design","authors":"Maxim Tvorun-Dunn","doi":"10.1111/anti.13126","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13126","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines the architectural tropes used in designs which are concurrently branded as sustainable and futuristic, offering a critique of techno-solutionist architectures that have been promoted by the European Union, World Expos, and forward-looking design pedagogy. Through an analysis of the designs of Belgian architect Vincent Callebaut, I observe that such “eco-futurist” images symbolically communicate an association with sustainability through the visible use of “green” technologies and the adoption of highly contextual encounters with greenery, rhetorically prefaced on the ability of techno-science to mediate human–nature relationships, and visually bound within the design tropes of luxury tourist destinations. By intertwining the aspirational futures of sustainable design with the aesthetic sensibilities of the wealthy, I argue that eco-futurism primarily aligns itself with the interests of neoliberal property development and the spatial and social logics of colonialism.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"714-733"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13126","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143250078","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 : 2024-12-09DOI: 10.1111/anti.13118
Courtney T. Wittekind
{"title":"“Build the New City as Fast as Possible”: Speculation as Subsistence in Peri-Urban Myanmar","authors":"Courtney T. Wittekind","doi":"10.1111/anti.13118","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13118","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article examines an ambitious plan to construct a built-from-scratch new city outside Yangon, Myanmar and sheds light on the contradictory responses sparked by rapid urban expansion. Despite fears that this megaproject would threaten the region's way of life, hopes for the new city's construction remained high throughout the project's early phases. Residents of areas targeted for development went so far as to publicly demand the city be built “as fast as possible”. In this article, I highlight the gap between residents’ pro-project enthusiasm and the expectations of civil society activists and development actors, who predicted locals would reject the planned new city. I argue that this divergence exposes the perceived limitations of solutions held out for populations facing de-agrarianisation. Equally, it refocuses attention on how project-affected populations envision their own post-agrarian future. In doing so, I demonstrate how and why speculation on peri-urban land has emerged as a compelling mode of subsistence for even the poor among the region's landowning class.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 6","pages":"2147-2167"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2024-12-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13118","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145204828","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 : 2024-12-08DOI: 10.1111/anti.13122
Chris Meulbroek, Jim Glassman
{"title":"The National Security State and the Tech City: Social Structures of Militarisation in Seattle's Long Cold War","authors":"Chris Meulbroek, Jim Glassman","doi":"10.1111/anti.13122","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13122","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Integration between the American state and technology capital has deep roots in the military-industrial complex that has structured the US geopolitical economy since World War II. This article makes the case for understanding the urban-regional dimensions of technology capital in terms of a transformation of, rather than as a departure from, Cold War geopolitics. It introduces the concept of a social structure of militarisation to analyse the transition from military-Keynesianism to tech-oriented militarism, developing this concept through a case study of high-tech firms in the Seattle region. Our analysis shows how the class dynamics that underpinned the growth of Seattle's “high-tech” aerospace sector in the postwar period conditioned the subsequent growth of the information and biotechnology sectors. Like other tech cities, Seattle's economy remains a privileged site of technical and managerial labour within the extended US national security state.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"599-621"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13122","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143248958","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 : 2024-11-27DOI: 10.1111/anti.13115
Julia Manek
{"title":"No Camp is a “Good Camp”: The Closed Controlled Access Centre on Samos as a Torturing Environment and Necropolitical Space of Uncare","authors":"Julia Manek","doi":"10.1111/anti.13115","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13115","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a crisis-shaken globalised world, migration-related sites of detention emerge as a harmful figure of attempts to contain human mobility. The new Closed Controlled Access Centre (CCAC) on Samos is a blueprint for the EU's future border practices. While openly dehumanising conditions contributed to the previous “old camp” amounting to a torturing environment, the new remote and securitised CCAC promised safety and humanitarian care. Psycho-geographical counter-mappings by people living in the camps and of human rights defenders allow the reading of the hotspot camps as a built environment and social space. They expose how the violent neglect of the old camp transforms into the surveilled and weaponised space of yet another torturing environment. This time, it operates a necropolitical space of uncare that distributes harm differentially. The findings emphasise the abolitionist argument that camps cannot be turned into “better” places. </p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 1","pages":"324-349"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13115","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119730","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 : 2024-11-25DOI: 10.1111/anti.13121
Antonio Gomes de Jesus Neto
{"title":"South–South Theoretical Dialogues: The Tanzanian Experience (1974–76) in Milton Santos’ Spatial Theory","authors":"Antonio Gomes de Jesus Neto","doi":"10.1111/anti.13121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13121","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The Brazilian geographer Milton Santos is known for his sophisticated theorisation of geographical space. Less well known, however, is the role that Milton Santos’ experience at the University of Dar-es-Salaam (from 1974 to 1976) played in his work. Structured by Julius Nyerere as the core for the development of an independent and socialist Tanzania, the Dar-es-Salaam School hosted several Marxist intellectuals such as Walter Rodney, Issa Shivji, and David Slater, as well as Milton Santos. This paper seeks to unpack Santos’ Tanzanian experience through literature review and research in his archives at the Institute of Brazilian Studies, University of São Paulo (Brazil). The idea is also to discuss the extent to which the discussions of the Dar-es-Salaam School influenced his conceptual framework, including one of his later definitions of geographical space.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 1","pages":"282-300"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143119285","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 : 2024-11-19DOI: 10.1111/anti.13117
Shirin M. Rai
{"title":"Afterword: Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction","authors":"Shirin M. Rai","doi":"10.1111/anti.13117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.13117","url":null,"abstract":"<p>“Replenishing Geographical Thinking on Depletion through and of Social Reproduction” contributes to the growing interdisciplinary debates on depletion. It does so through analyses of the everyday rhythms of life by investigating the relationship between production and reproduction to understand the labour that goes into the maintenance of life and experiences of depletion, as well as strategies to measure and reverse it. I reflect on the different papers and suggest that this excellent Symposium is an important contribution to the study of depletion and opens up avenues for further explorations of the concept.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"554-558"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143252929","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}