Antipod

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Antipod is a radical geography podcast and sound collective. This podcast is intended for anyone interested in and committed to life and liberation around the planet. Antipod amplifies and harmonizes with vital perspectives on how to get free and stay...

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United States

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Arts & Culture Podcasts

Description:

Antipod is a radical geography podcast and sound collective. This podcast is intended for anyone interested in and committed to life and liberation around the planet. Antipod amplifies and harmonizes with vital perspectives on how to get free and stay free. Antipod is a polyvocal podcast that takes place across geographically dispersed localities. Antipod is also more than a podcast: It is a soundscape of radical human geographies. It is a place to conjure and to amplify sonic liberation. It is an attunement to the tone and the pitch of revolutionary life. Antipod is a site of inquiry and a venue for the co-creation of folk theory. It is an instrument with which to ground a common geopolitical education across various media, technologies, and contexts. Antipod is an inclusive and interdisciplinary space for radical geography. We listen to each other, together. Antipod makes research in radical geography accessible beyond the academy, particularly for people who are often prohibited from engaging with institutionalized research due to paywalls and highly specialized language and formats. Antipod also makes radical geographic research that is marginalized within the academy more widely available in new ways. We bring radical people and collectives together so that we can share knowledge, ask new questions, and sustain frameworks and methods that are under-represented in the discipline. Antipod is a living archive of this work. Antipod is for you. ~Keep~Listening~

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@thisisantipod

Language:

English

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Website:

https://thisisantipod.org/

Email:

thisisantipod@gmail.com

Episodes

S2: Episode 5: Book Group - Ruth Wilson Gilmore's Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation

4/22/2025

For our finale, we are doing something different. In this episode, Asha, Carrie, Deondre and Theo have a book group-style discussion of Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s Abolition Geography: Essays Towards Liberation. It contextualizes our season and this sensitive and fought moment in organizing and in history. Gilmore’s activist scholarship over three decades has been deeply influential for abolitionist organizing in the United States and Canada, where we live, and across the world. Over the course of this conversation, we explore the lessons that this body of work has to offer for our current conjuncture. Not least of all, the messy and unending work of building shared questions and narratives across perceived boundaries.

Duration:00:39:48

S2: Episode 4: Abolition Geographies, Abolitionist Futures

4/22/2025

This season we’ve been talking about COVID-19, carceral spaces and abolition. In this episode of the season we share a brief intro on abolition geographies, and how and why geographers are thinking with and doing abolitionist work. Then we return to organizers featured throughout this season as well as introduce new ones to ground abolitionist practice, asking: what does abolition mean for people doing the work? What has and does it look like? And how does this connect to decarceral movements and movements beyond the site of the prison? Host 1: Finally, we end the episode by asking what are abolitionist futures? For this, we focus on a panel conversation among food sovereignty and food justice activists across the country who are connecting their work to abolitionist struggles and visions for what friends and colleagues call “desirable futures.”

Duration:00:28:18

S2: Episode 3: Lessons from New Orleans with Lydia Pelot-Hobbs

4/22/2025

In this episode, we’re thinking from New Orleans. We are looking at how state policies and abolitionist organizing since the beginning of the pandemic relate to the crisis that unfolded after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. In the broadest sense, we’re really interested in understanding how covid articulates with other crises.

Duration:00:20:55

S2: Episode 2: COVID as a Public Health Issue

1/23/2023

In this episode we consider the spread of COVID in prison from a public health perspective. We’ll hear from abolitionist organizers in WA state, and speak with Dr. Aaron Mallory, assistant professor of Geography and African American Studies at FSU. We discuss a variety of public health responses and ask what this moment opens up for thinking about carcerality, responsibility and abolition. Music: dex digi (Dexter Thomas) Intro: Piano Ruff Stilt Lodrum a Interlude/Transition: Africa Again...

Duration:00:36:28

S2: Episode 1: Lockdown in the Early Pandemic

1/23/2023

In the first part of this episode, we explore the uneven effects of state-supported and state-prescribed COVID responses, focusing on the experiences of someone who was arrested and incarcerated beginning in the summer of 2020. His narrative reflects those of the many people inside and outside prison walls who bear the impacts of COVID’s precarity. In the second part, we ask anti-carceral organizer Io Brooks about how the forced movement of people within and among spaces of incarceration has...

Duration:00:32:41

Season 2 Trailer

7/29/2022

Welcome to Season 2 of Antipod. This season will focus on questions of carcerality in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the possibility of abolitionist, liberatory futures. In this trailer, we introduce you to the themes and stories that will comprise this season's episodes, as well as to the new Antipod Sound Collective (Asha, Carrie, Deondre and Theo). Episodes 1 and 2 of Season 2 will be coming soon, but until then, we hope you enjoy this trailer--welcome back to Antipod. Make sure to...

Duration:00:04:10

Episode 3: Connecting Race, Place, and Capital with Dr. Bobby M. Wilson.

2/24/2020

In this episode, hosts Alex Moulton and Brian Williams visit Birmingham, Alabama to revisit the work of Dr. Bobby M. Wilson. Dr. Wilson’s work was the subject of two panel discussions at the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting in 2019. Titled “Reframing Marxism and Race: The Scholarship of Bobby Wilson,” the panels included Wilson in conversation with collaborators and interlocutors who reflected on his work and mentorship: Adam Bledsoe, Joe Darden, Ruth Wilson Gilmore, Perla...

Duration:00:46:27

Episode 2: The Blues Epistemology, Lick Trading in Blues Time from the Bottom of the Belly

10/28/2019

Episode 2 of Antipod is the second in a two-part series dedicated to the life, work, and wisdom of Dr. Clyde Adrian Woods. This episode builds on the conversation that Akira and Brian had in the Episode 1, which engaged with a pair of panel discussions held in 2018 at the New Orleans Community Book Center and the American Association of Geographers (AAG) Annual Meeting. The panels focused on Dr. Woods’s Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations of Post-Katrina New...

Duration:00:28:02

Episode 1: Clyde Woods, Dispossession, and Resistance in New Orleans

8/19/2019

In this first full episode of Antipod we turn our attention to Black Geographies, the theme of our first season. Hosts Brian Williams and Akira Drake Rodriguez walk listeners through a series of clips from a panel on Clyde Woods’s posthomously published work Development Drowned and Reborn: The Blues and Bourbon Restorations of Post-Katrina New Orleans, edited by Jordan T. Camp and Laura Pulido (University of Georgia Press, 2017). Brian and Akira comment on the use of Woods’s “blues...

Duration:00:40:00

Episode 0: Introduction

6/18/2019

Welcome to Antipod: A Radical Geography Podcast and Sound Collective! This is Episode 0... In our initial episode, the six members of the Antipod Sound Collective introduce themselves, describe their research, discuss the origins of the podcast and the collective, and share our intentions for Season 1 of the podcast. The Antipod Sound Collective was conceived at Antipode’s sixth Institute for the Geographies of Justice (IGJ), which was held in Montréal/Tiohtiá:ke on unceded Kanien’kehá:ka...

Duration:00:18:59