What people say about Antipode
"Antipode has both made and followed the radical political edge in Geography since the late 1960s, weaving a careful path between dogma and dissent, tradition and novelty, theory and practice. It is one of the discipline's great scholarly journals but the real testament of its success is that it read and cited by the Left beyond the discipline and beyond the academy."
Ash Amin, Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies, University of Durham, UK.
"In terms of the quality and depth of scholarship on topics of signal importance and interest, Antipode is at the very forefront of its field. What is particularly distinctive about Antipode is that it is far more than a first-rate and highly respected journal in the field of geography; rather, its appeal stretches right across the terrain of radical political economy. Political economists of all disciplinary affiliations must – and do – turn to Antipode for a wealth of cutting-edge scholarship in their areas of interest."
Nicola Phillips, Director, Centre for the Study of Political Economy, Manchester University, UK.
"Antipode has played a key role in the diversification and radicalisation of geography studies. It has established itself as a journal that now commands very widespread scholarly respect while yet managing to remain in the avant garde. An alternative 'political imaginary' is more needed than ever today, and I salute the 'Antipode Project' as promising a rich source of ideas for promoting it."
Professor Kate Soper, Institute for the Study of European Transformations, London Met University.
"For nearly 40 years the arrival of a new issue of Antipode has always been anticipated with excitement and we are seldom disappointed. Over this long period, Antipode has moved with the theoretical times and this has been one of the truly outstanding features of the journal."
"Never exclusively a journal of 'Marxist' geography it nonetheless made significant interventions in the 1970s and 80s on class struggle, geographies of accumulation and human-environment relations from a Marxist perspective. Yet it also carried explorations of anarchist and what later became known as post-colonial perspectives."
"In 1981 I was part of an editorial collective that put together an 'Antipodean Antipode' [vol 13(1)] which included articles on Marxist housing analysis, Australian class structure, the role of the state and the concept of underdevelopment in relation to Indigenous Australians. These were new tropics for Australian geographers and in our editorial we proudly proclaimed our issue as "...one of the first concrete artefacts of 'radical geography' in Australia". They were exciting times indeed."
"Yet by the 1990s the journal had moved with the great debates in social theory responding to challenges, in particular, from feminist theory and poststructuralism. So the excitement of discovery and informed debate has never left Antipode's pages as demonstrated by its most recent issues. Articles engaging critically with queer theory and feminist theory sit alongside the interventions on politics of race, theorising labour-power, circuits of capital, postcolonial theory and work-place activism. Antipode's determination to challenge orthodoxies and encourage politically-committed research has produced international geography's most important critical theory journal. Long may it prosper!"
Bob Fagan. Professor of Human Geography, Macquarie University, Australia