Welcome to the Antipode website
Welcome to Antipode Online
Welcome to the website of the journal Antipode – Antipode Online. Antipode has been publishing radical thinking on the subjects of place, space, landscape, scale, environment, uneven development, boundaries and connections for nearly 40 years. This site, launched in April 2007, is not simply an electronic form of the paper version of the journal. It is much more. Through this site, we aim to further radical spirit of the 'Antipode project' – creating and spreading the dissenting traditions of those on the Left within Geography and beyond, bringing together academics, activists, policy makers, students and others in urgent and critical conversations about how our futures could and should be.
What’s on the site?
The site contains a range of features, some of which will grow as the site develops in the years ahead. We have included material you can already find in the paper journal, plus new, exciting material which cannot be found elsewhere.
This includes:
- History. Our mission statement, aims and a timeline which charts major milestones in the journal’s history and, importantly, how these connect with the surrounding world.
- The team. Links to all our editorial team and editorial board, as well as links to their pages so you can get a flavour of who is really behind this journal.
- Journal content. Every single piece of writing featured in the journal’s history right back to August 1969 is listed in our Journal Content section which features the full table of contents.
- Free content. We are also committed to making some of this material free on our website. To this end, and firstly, we have instituted a Classics Section where each year a small number of paradigmatic articles from Antipode will be made available free on the site. Secondly, we have also instituted a Themes Section where several articles covering major themes of our time (war and empire, social struggles and resistance, environment, nature, development, understanding the global/neoliberal world, new perspectives in geography, body, identity, belief) are available.
- Former Editorial Reflections. For Antipode aficionados there is a set of reflections by former editors on their period of tenure where all of the journal’s past editors offer us accounts weaving together their personal, academic and political lives.
- Endorsements. Here you can get a sense of the impact the journal has made in the field of Geography and beyond.
- Antipode Scholarship. Information on how to apply for our scholarships which are designed to support the next generation of radical geography researchers
- Book series. Uniquely amongst geography journals, we publish a 'double' (book) issue of the journal per annum, plus separately commissioned texts, allowing Antipode contributors to make major statements on key topics.
- Obituaries. An obituaries section called Anti-obits that will record the lives and works of left-wing geographers. Given the unwillingness of most journals these days to publish such obituaries we regard this as a very important initiative.
- Events/meetings. We will feature upcoming information relevant to Antipode.
- Resources. We have compiled a large section of links to Left-wing journals, organisations and initiatives that users of our site can browse.
So, as you can see, this is an exciting initiative that will, we hope, evolve in the years ahead.
Have your say
If you have any comments about the site or if you notice any errors we might have made, please don’t hesitate to get in touch. We would also love to hear from you if you have any additions or announcements for our resources or events pages.
Keeping the radical spirit alive
We hope that this web site projects the radical spirit of Antipode – one which is still alive and strong in the pages of the journal. Our goal, like the journal’s founders, is radical change. In similar ways to the late 1960s when it was conceived, for reasons that are similar and for others that are new and more urgent, we are living in difficult times – permanent war, environmental destruction, terrorism, fear and surveillance. We hope that Antipode continues to help its readers respond to these times, to inform, inspire and engage those who read it to engender the development of a new and better society.
Paul Chatterton, Web editor