AntipodePub Date : 2024-01-29DOI: 10.1111/anti.13027
Vignesh Ramachandran
{"title":"The Carceral Geographies of Platform Delivery Work: Essential Workers and Bike Registrations in New York City","authors":"Vignesh Ramachandran","doi":"10.1111/anti.13027","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13027","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The critical platform studies literature is increasingly considering the role of social difference as a structuring logic in the platform economy, complementing understandings of worker precarity facilitated by worker misclassification and algorithmic management. Contributing to this literature, this paper demonstrates how platforms and police produce carceral geographies that manage and exploit immigrant delivery workers as surplus populations. The carceral geographies of the platform economy account for both how carceral space produces and manages the surplus populations from which platform capital draws its workers, facilitating the disposability and exploitation of workers. Focusing on South Asian delivery workers in New York City, the paper uses the example of bike registrations to show how police and platforms expand carceral spaces in immigrant communities, increasing their vulnerability to premature death and violence. Finally, it suggests how delivery worker organising offers instances of situated resistance that challenge platform capital and carceral logics.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1440-1460"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13027","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140486811","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 : 2024-01-24DOI: 10.1111/anti.13025
Peter Adey, Weiqiang Lin, Tina Harris
{"title":"“We touch their heart”: Plastic Automaticity and Affective Labour at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Airport","authors":"Peter Adey, Weiqiang Lin, Tina Harris","doi":"10.1111/anti.13025","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13025","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Labour research in geography has long been fascinated with the role of affects and emotions in capitalism. This article foregrounds ambivalent moments when labour creatively uses affection and intimacy to make claims over autonomy and agency. Set against a backdrop of increasing automation of infrastructural work, we draw on interviews with personnel at Jakarta Soekarno-Hatta Airport (CGK). In culturally situating these automations, we evince how the “heart” (or the Indonesian notion of <i>curahan hati</i>), with semblances to customer-facing labour management practices, and other affective dispositions under neoliberal life, is repeatedly deployed to “fill in the gaps” for where automation may fail. We illuminate how these workers navigate wearying, uncertain, and demanding facilitation, security, and customer service situations by emphasising “heart-to-heart” relations, even as they stave off technology's encroachments (and withdrawals). This plastic automaticity offers a template by which the pressures of capital's technologisation could be relieved, beyond emotional labour.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1073-1092"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139599120","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 : 2024-01-23DOI: 10.1111/anti.13021
Maira Hayat
{"title":"The Duty of Water: Land, Labour, and the Racialisation of Waste in Colonial and Contemporary Punjab","authors":"Maira Hayat","doi":"10.1111/anti.13021","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13021","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In our present changing climate, water governance is fast becoming a matter of concern everywhere, but especially in the Global South, which has long been the object of (mis)understandings of state failure and dysfunction. A common characterisation of “bad” water governance calls attention to the waste of water. In this article I show how contemporary development discourse and practice around the waste of water articulate conceptions of bureaucratic labour, farmer capability, and the suitability of irrigation practices, recalling a prior moment in colonial water governance. Examining the development of the “duty of water” in the context of canal irrigation infrastructure in colonial Punjab, I argue that seemingly “technical” measures and metrics of water governance are rooted in a colonial grammar, and show how the duty of water articulated racialised classifications of natives as wasteful, their places as waste, and of their labour, both agricultural and bureaucratic. While the tendency has been to view colonial irrigation as a battle with nature, I emphasise it instead as a battle of British with native labour to contribute to conceptualisations of environment and bureaucracy inseparable from, and incomplete without, an understanding of racialised labour. Today, figurations of labour have changed, but the underlying view of labour impeding, not enabling, governance, continues.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1329-1356"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13021","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139602904","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 : 2024-01-17DOI: 10.1111/anti.13023
Kathy Burrell
{"title":"Domesticating Responsibility: Refugee Hosting and the Homes for Ukraine Scheme","authors":"Kathy Burrell","doi":"10.1111/anti.13023","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13023","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In March 2022, in response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the UK government launched its “Homes for Ukraine” private hosting scheme. The British public were urged to support Ukraine by signing up to host people fleeing the war in their own homes. There are many critiques of the scheme, especially the racialised connotations of welcoming Ukrainians while shunning others seeking sanctuary. However, the particular themes of responsibility and responsibilisation stand out. This scheme is the first programme of this scale in the UK, signalling a different approach to accommodating and supporting refugees, away from the realm of government. Is this a retreating state, and who exactly is responsible for supporting Ukrainians as they settle? What does this responsibility entail? Drawing on 58 interviews with hosts, guests, charities, and central and local government representatives, this article forges new contributions to understanding what is at stake in refugee hosting schemes.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1191-1211"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13023","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139617434","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 : 2024-01-10DOI: 10.1111/anti.13020
Martina Tazzioli
{"title":"Refugees’ (In)dependency Conundrum: Obstructed Social Reproduction Activities and Unpaid Labour in Refugee Camps","authors":"Martina Tazzioli","doi":"10.1111/anti.13020","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13020","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article uses the analytical lens of (<i>in)dependency conundrum</i> to highlight how asylum seekers in refugee camps are pushed to be self-reliant while, however, their autonomous social reproduction activities and spaces of liveability are hindered. Focusing on Greece, it intertwines critical migration scholarship with feminist geography literature on unpaid labour to investigate refugees’ obstructed social reproduction activities. It moves on by exploring the (in)dependency conundrum that refugees face in Greece from a condition of protracted carcerality enforced beyond detention. In the third section it highlights the continuum between social reproduction activities and other unpaid labours done by asylum seekers in camps, as a result of humanitarianism’ s subtle coercion. In the last section it draws attention to refugees’ collective mobilisations in Greek refugee camps: raising punctual demands about food and accommodation, they articulated expansive claims about their right to autonomous social reproduction activities and to build infrastructures of liveability.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1483-1503"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2024-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139627342","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 : 2024-01-09DOI: 10.1111/anti.13016
Jayanthi Thiyaga Lingham, Melissa Johnston
{"title":"Running on Empty: Depletion and Social Reproduction in Myanmar and Sri Lanka","authors":"Jayanthi Thiyaga Lingham, Melissa Johnston","doi":"10.1111/anti.13016","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13016","url":null,"abstract":"<p>A social reproduction framework that uses depletion reveals how multiple crises intersect. We deploy this framework to examine the relationship between depletion and conflict. Drawing on research undertaken in Myanmar and Sri Lanka in early 2020, we argue that the weight of social reproduction under conflict conditions increases women's depletion. Our findings showed, however, that increased depletion was not due primarily to increased social reproductive labour but because of the intervening effects of conflict and violence against women. These findings add utility to the concept of depletion. We argue that understanding the depth of depletion in conflict requires more than a mathematical calculation. We also contend that depletion of social reproductive resources is a tactic of conflict. Therefore, to understand depletion <i>through</i> social reproduction in conflict, we must expand the concept to include the depletion <i>of</i> social reproduction. Lastly, we show that violence against women is a significant factor in women's depletion.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"57 2","pages":"494-514"},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13016","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139442495","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 : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1111/anti.13018
Antonio A. R. Ioris
{"title":"Hegel's Minor and Major Geographies: Space, Consciousness, and Change","authors":"Antonio A. R. Ioris","doi":"10.1111/anti.13018","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13018","url":null,"abstract":"<p>It is still largely ignored that Hegelian dialect can be of great assistance to comprehend the intricacies of the production, experience, and contestation of space. Hegelian philosophy can significantly help to enrich geographical scholarship, although Hegel-the-geographer is yet to be discovered and properly recognised. Considering the metabolism of reason, the articulation between the particular and the universal, the externalisation and supersession of objectified consciousness, and the function of otherness in the production of space, among other insights of great socio-spatial relevance, this article offers a comparative analysis between Hegel's minor geography (the more explicit and immediate considerations of space, spatial dimensions, and geometry) and the more substantial, major geography, which is immanent in the main body of his philosophical system. The most remarkable geographical accomplishments of Hegel are possibly the detailed investigation into the pursuit of higher reason through practical, collective action and the convergence of various shapes of consciousness that constitutes the politico-spatial absolute.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1357-1377"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13018","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138963203","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 : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1111/anti.13015
Lauren Crabb, Celal Cahit Agar, Steffen Böhm
{"title":"Internal Colonialism as Socio-Ecological Fix: The Case of New Clark City in the Philippines","authors":"Lauren Crabb, Celal Cahit Agar, Steffen Böhm","doi":"10.1111/anti.13015","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13015","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study the emergence of New Clark City, Philippines, which is part of the country's development programme “Build-Build-Build”. Triangulating data from field observations, interviews, and documents, we analyse the social, economic, and ecological consequences of this “city of the future”. The city enables capital to be fixed into space, which (i) creates new accumulation opportunities for investors, (ii) lubricates capital circulation, shortening turnover times and lowering costs, and (iii) staves off a multitude of longstanding barriers faced by capital and state actors by reordering space along the lines of the Philippines’ geographical expansion and spatial restructuring strategy. Aiming to address a geographical-switching crisis, this socio-ecological fix goes hand-in-hand with the stark reality of an internal colonialist agenda, resulting in negative consequences for local and Indigenous communities. We contribute to the socio-ecological fix literature by arguing that internal colonialism offers a vital lens to understand capital expansion from the centre to the periphery.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1233-1263"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13015","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138960287","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 : 2023-12-15DOI: 10.1111/anti.13017
Cian O'Callaghan
{"title":"Vacancy as Precarious Property in Dublin's Temporary Urbanism Moment","authors":"Cian O'Callaghan","doi":"10.1111/anti.13017","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13017","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper makes a case for viewing vacancy as “precarious property” (Blomley 2020; <i>Antipode</i> 52[1]:36–57), i.e. less a material object defined by absence of use than the property relation (understood as a bundle of social, economic, legal, and political relationships) put under strain by the visibility of non-use. Focusing on Dublin's temporary urbanism moment (2008–2017), the paper has two aims. Firstly, it gives a critical account of this recent urban history of experimentation, documenting how the possibilities of the period following the crash were (fore)closed through governmental interventions. Secondly, the empirical case is used to make a wider conceptual argument about the conjunctural role that vacancy plays in urbanisation and urban politics, developing three main arguments: that vacancy is a vulnerable axis within the ownership model of property; that claims to vacancy are articulated in conjunctural and contextual ways; and that vacancy epitomises the dual nature of precarity.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1399-1418"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13017","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138999421","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 : 2023-12-14DOI: 10.1111/anti.13019
Maria Hagan, Sébastien Bachelet
{"title":"Insidious Harassment: Criminalisation, Solidarity, and Migration in France and Morocco","authors":"Maria Hagan, Sébastien Bachelet","doi":"10.1111/anti.13019","DOIUrl":"10.1111/anti.13019","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Amidst well-documented hostile migration policies, this article explores how logics of criminalisation seep into the lives of activists and citizens, providing assistance, relief, advocacy, and other forms of support to migrant people. As presences considered legal and legitimate, solidarity actors inhabit distinct subjectivities from those of people migrating informally, yet state authorities interpret their acts as problematic and subject them to intrusive modes of policing. Drawing on critical border studies and feminist geography, this article homes in on less spectacular modes of criminalisation that target them in the intimacy of their everyday lives, threatening their sense of security through opaque surveillance, attacks on their emotions, employment prospects and family life. Drawing on ethnographic research carried out among these groups in Morocco and northern France, we conceptualise this mode of criminalisation as <i>insidious harassment</i>, examining the entanglement of geopolitics, emotions, and the intimate at these migration pressure points. Without decentring migrants as the primary targets of violent bordering, it broadens our understanding of these regimes by drawing attention to the ways in which they viscerally target those who work to protect the rights of migrant people.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"56 4","pages":"1308-1328"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.13019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138971105","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}