In my view the real problem with Antipode is not so much that the
Antipode people are mostly Anglo-American. It is rather the fact
that its view of radicalism is unwilling to assert that certain
structures of exploitation are more important than others. Antipode
is not willing to prioritize analyses that deal with class and/or
relations between class and other structures of
exploitation/oppression over analyses that simply deal with gender or
environment or disability or whatever without relating these issues
to class and its various forms (feudalism, capitalism, imperialism,
etc). Antipode yields too much ground to 'post-ists'.
There are journals in Geography and Geography-related disciplines
specializing in gender, post-modern thought etc. So why can't
Antipode specialize in class? I would be happy to see Antipode as the
Geography counterpart of journals like Science and Society. Or
perhaps there is a need for a new journal which would play that role
for Geographers, if Antipode won't?
Raju
Raju J Das
Department of Geography
University of Dundee
Dundee DD1 4HN
United Kingdom
Phone 01382 348073 work
01382 738872 home
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