Antipode’s 5th Institute for the Geographies of Justice
21st-27th June 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa

‘Occupying Radical Geography’

Antipode’s 5th Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ) will take place in Johannesburg, South Africa from 21st to 27th June 2015.

The 2015 IGJ poses the question ‘how do we occupy radical geography today?’. We pose ‘occupation’ as a meta-theme or framework for praxis as we organize engagements across a wide array of debates and concerns inside/outside radical geography. We pose the question to ask how we might occupy and transform radical geography as an occupation, vocation or critical stance.

As radical-geographic practitioners in various ways, the organizing group in Johannesburg will present a platform for transformations with participants, to enable and renew a set of debates pertinent to ‘occupying radical geography’. In doing so, we pose a number of related questions: How do we define radical/critical geographies? How should we…