Last week we reiterated how here at AntipodeFoundation.org we welcome what political scientists and academic bloggers Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson call the communication of “bottom-line results and ‘take aways’ in clear language, yet with due regard to methods issues and quality of evidence”. Continue reading
by Rachel Brahinsky, UC Berkeley
There was a terrific session at the annual meeting of the Association of American Geographers this year that looked at the life and work of Clyde Adrian Woods, a brilliant and kind scholar who passed away last summer. I’ve wanted to put down some thoughts toward a larger essay on Woods’ work for some time. Here, I’m sharing a piece of that work. Continue reading
Hot on the heels of the Antipode Foundation Regional Workshop Awards, we’re pleased to announce the launch of the Antipode Foundation Scholar-Activist Project Awards… Continue reading
by Freerk Boedeltje, San Diego State University
In the midst of Communist Czechoslovakia it was not unusual to have trials against political opponents. They carried the name of ‘dissidents’. Dissidents were not necessarily intellectuals, academics or other elites. A dissident was simply anyone who was doing what he feels he must do even though this resulted in a confrontation between ‘him’ as individual and the collective of the Communist Party. Continue reading
…so say Patrick Dunleavy and Chris Gilson over at the LSE’s Impact of social sciences: Maximising the impact of academic research blog. Whether or not we want to “de-emphasise the traditional journals route” is an open question (!), but to “re-prioritise faster, real-time academic communication”, it seems to us, is a very important thing indeed. Continue reading
Reflecting on the journal’s first year of life, Antipode‘s editors in 1970 expressed a desire to not only publish radical geography, but also aid it: “Antipode‘s effort at this time is printing. Later, if funds can be found, it may stimulate radical research and action, but for now, Antipode must serve its brothers [and sisters] with words…” (volume 2, issue 1). Continue reading
Hot on the heels of Staff Reporter Jesse Goldstein’s two-part essay on the OWS Screenprinters Coop and Guild which explores questions of markets, commons, and alternative ways of organising economic activity (see here and here), we have here Janelle Cornwell from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst talking about her new paper ‘Worker Co-operatives and Spaces of Possibility‘. Continue reading
