It’s not quite the middle of August and the September issue of Antipode is out now! Antipode 47(4) really showcases critical geography at its very best: timely topics, engaged research, engaging writing…

We open with Christian Parenti’s 2013 Antipode AAG Lecture, The Environment Making State: Territory, Nature, and Value (which is open access; there’s a video of the lecture itself here); for more on the state’s “natures”, see the next paper, Infrastructure Nation: State Space, Hegemony, and Hydraulic Regionalism in Pakistan by Majed Akhter.

We’re pleased to present here a video abstract featuring Shannon Brincat and Damian Gerber talking about their paper, The Necessity of Dialectical Naturalism: Marcuse, Bookchin, and Dialectics in the Midst of Ecological Crises. Whilst primarily a theoretical analysis focused on the work of Marcuse and Bookchin, their paper, they contend, has important implications for ecological praxis. It exposes the ontological hole at the heart of the dominant (mis)conceptualisation…