A bit of radical humour for AAG week…
“A true joke…suddenly and explosively lets us see the familiar defamiliarised, the ordinary made extraordinary, and the real rendered surreal…Humour brings about a change of situation…” – Simon Critchley, On … Continue reading
Critical dialogue – ‘What Can We Do? The Challenge of Being New Academics in Neoliberal Universities’
Many readers will be familiar with the Antipode Foundation’s Institute for the Geographies of Justice. Taking place every two years, the IGJ is a week-long opportunity for doctoral students, postdoctoral … Continue reading
Call for contributions – Forum on ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security’
Antipode has always welcomed the infusion of new ideas and the shaking-up of old positions through productive debate, never being committed to just one view of analysis or politics. Its … Continue reading
Symposium on the Participatory Geographies Research Group’s ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security’
We’re delighted to be continuing our symposium series with this collection of responses to the Participatory Geographies Research Group’s ‘Communifesto for Fuller Geographies: Towards Mutual Security’. PyGyRG is a research … Continue reading
Life and time(s) in the neoliberal university: Tell me about it (seriously, do)
by Christian Anderson, City University of New York Last semester I spent one night a week sleeping on the floor in a small, windowless student office at my university. I … Continue reading
Intervention – The brutal lives of others: Exploitation in the academy
by Kean Birch, York University In the Chronicle of Higher Education, William Pannapacker – under his pen name Thomas H. Benton – wrote an article titled ‘Graduate school in the … Continue reading
Author interview – Nicky Gregson and colleagues speak about ‘Building bridges through performance and decision-making’
“…left-wing academics…never test themselves against the market…no matter how much they write for each other, they never find themselves writing for anyone else” (Alan Wolfe, 1996: 25 – Marginalized in … Continue reading