Intervention—“Geographies of Student Debt: A Call for Research and Action”

Dylan M. Harris (University of Colorado, Colorado Springs) Critical geographers should be studying the student debt crisis. In the United States, it impacts all of us as educators,...
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Intervention – “Beyond Disaster Capitalism: Dismantling the Infrastructure of Extraction in Puerto Rico’s Neo-Plantation Economy”

Joaquín Villanueva (Gustavus Adolphus College; [email protected]) and Martín Cobián (City University of New York)

A new colonial administration is shocking the nation. The Financial Oversight and Management Board (FOMB), a Congress-appointed body responsible for managing the Island’s finances, has restructured...
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Book Review Symposium – Peter James Hudson’s “Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean”

Thanks to Antipode’s very own Katherine McKittrick (Queen’s University) we’re able to present here a superb series of engagements with Peter James Hudson’s Bankers and Empire: How Wall Street...
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Intervention – “F**k the Cupcake Revolution! David Cameron, Samuel Smiles, and the Geographies of Neo-Victorian Thrift”

Alison Hulme https://commoditytactics.wordpress.com/   The homemade poster was clearly visible in the window of a first floor flat as I sat on the top deck of the 185 bus that was jerking its...
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Intervention – "Reclaiming Hope Within the Geopolitics of Economic Bullying: The Case of SYRIZA and Post-Referendum Greece"

by Maria Pentaraki, Queen's University Belfast ([email protected]), and Janet Speake, Liverpool Hope University ([email protected]) “When the ‘OXI-NO’ vote in the referendum became a...
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Critical dialogue – Kean Birch responds to Brett Christophers’ “Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away”

A response to Brett Christophers’ Monopolizing Neoliberalism Away by Kean Birch, Department of Social Science, York University, [email protected] ***A pdf version of this essay is available...
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Video abstract – 'Housing Goes South: Constructing Securitized Mortgages for the Poor in Mexico'

Forthcoming in Antipode 47(2) in early 2015, and available online now, Susanne Soederberg's Subprime Housing Goes South: Constructing Securitized Mortgages for the Poor in Mexico offers a timely...
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Intervention – 'Crammed Contested Strip: Democracy in the New Republic' by Andy Merrifield

Andy Merrifield, Fellow, Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge I was in Athens not long ago, at a conference called “Crisis-Scapes”, organized by a talented anarchist collective who a...
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Video abstract – Megan Ybarra talks about "You Cannot Measure a Tzuultaq'a": Cultural Politics at the Limits of Liberal Legibility

Here Megan Ybarra, Assistant Professor of Politics, Latin American Studies, and American Ethnic Studies at Willamette University, talks about her paper "You Cannot Measure a Tzuultaq'a": Cultural...
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Intervention – 'Doing the Right Thing in Detroit' by Andy Merrifield

“Neutrality isn’t cool” -- Justin Ravitz, Marxist Judge of Detroit Recorder’s Court, 1980 A little while ago, I participated in an evening of revolutionary politics at the Roxy Bar and...
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