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Converts… and downward spirals

Recently, Muslim converts—particularly, white, middle-class female converts from North America—are in the news again, thanks to the attack in Boston. And not in a good way. I’ve bee… more →

A Sober Second Look

Symposium on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann's 'Climate Leviathan' - Authors' reply — 8 comments

Antipode Editorial Office wrote 8 months ago: Last month we launched a symposium on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann’s forthcoming Antipode pa … more →

Tags: Other, revolution, climate change, Environmental Justice, Political Economy, governance, Social Justice, Joel Wainwright, Political ecology

Towards a post-Occupy world — 1 comment

Antipode Editorial Office wrote 9 months ago: Following yesterday’s post announcing our soon-to-be-published special issue ‘Anarchist … more →

Tags: Other, occupy, Political Economy, James Ferguson, social change, alternative economies, Utopianism, Socialism, diverse economies

Symposium on Joel Wainwright and Geoff Mann's 'Climate Leviathan' — 15 comments

Antipode Editorial Office wrote 10 months ago: ***Comments now closed; Joel and Geoff’s reply is available here. Thanks to all who contribute … more →

Tags: Other, revolution, climate change, Environmental Justice, Political Economy, governance, Social Justice, Joel Wainwright, Political ecology

Rio+20, climate change, and critical scholarship: Beyond the critique of ‘green neoliberalism’?

Antipode Editorial Office wrote 10 months ago: by Sara Nelson, University of Minnesota According to critical accounts of the recent Rio+20 summit, … more →

Tags: News, critical geography *, carbon markets, climate change, Alternatives, Critique, radical scholarship, Anti-Capitalism, Environmental Degradation

Video abstract - Phil Steinberg talks about 'Atlas Swam: Freedom, Capital, and Floating Sovereignties in the Seasteading Vision' — 2 comments

Antipode Editorial Office wrote 10 months ago: There’s recently been a lot on AntipodeFoundation.org about utopian experiments. For one thing … more →

Tags: Vídeo abstracts, technology, seasteading, techno-optimism, libertarian secession theory, Anarcho-capitalism, ocean-space, Social Movements, autonomy

An anarchy of everyday life

sanjay perera wrote 1 year ago: by Jeff Shantz Contemporary anarchism offers a mid-range movement organized somewhere between the le … more →

Tags: anarchism, anarchist economic practice, anarchist economics, Anarchist Philosophy, Anarchist Thought, anarchists, destructive energy of capitalism, Marxism, Anarchy

Re-envisioning utopian thinking

sanjay perera wrote 1 year ago: by Stevphen Shukaitis 2012 preface: this essay was written in 2003 as a response to concerns coming … more →

Tags: anarchism, Anarchist Philosophy, Anarchist Thought, anarchists, new economic paradigms, new paradigms, Revolutionary Ideas, Revolutionary Practices, co-creating reality

A GULP (!) of Utopia 2

peterln wrote 1 year ago: [Part two of A Gulp (!) of Utopia, on Strategy and Tactics. The photo was taken in Melbourne's China … more →

Tags: Poetry, social change, Poems, political poetry, utopia, Civil Disobedience, non-violent revolution, occupation movement, direct actio

A GULP (!) of Utopia 1

peterln wrote 1 year ago: [A long thingo of mine I wrote ten years ago, masquerading as a poem. Self-explanatory I hope. I lov … more →

Tags: Poetry, social theory, social change, Poems, political poetry, utopia, alternative globalisation, revolution, occupy movement

Who cleans up this mess? — 1 comment

Antipode Editorial Office wrote 1 year ago: by Christian Anderson, City University of New York The short film Trash-Out (freely viewable at http … more →

Tags: News, Crisis, Struggle, Social Movements, Strike, Alternatives, the radical imagination, Debt, Cooperatives