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Michael Watts *
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8330.2009.00714.xdelete
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Antipode was launched into the firmament of the 1970s. We might reflect upon how well the journal and its contributors fully appreciated the historical gravity and weight of what was surrounding the project to create a radical journal of geography. What sort of radicalism was on offer? The language was social relevance from a radical (Left) political viewpoint. In writing to celebrate Antipode's birthday, this time in another, and similar, firmament there is still the need to confront the challenge of radicalism and its meanings. Whether we agree with Perry Anderson that the last vestiges of the 1960s have been finally swept away, that the fluent vision of the Right has no equivalent on the Left and that embedded liberalism is now as remote as Arian bishops, where do radical alternatives stand in relation to the fractured hegemony of neoliberalism? At the very least the need for alternatives is more pressing than ever. David Harvey has proposed rethinking the idea of the right to the city. But what other rights might we rethink? I reflect upon this question by returning to the 1960s and 1970s and Marxist debates over the law, and by thinking about the possibilities offered by this Polanyian moment.
Keywords:
radicalism
commons
law
Magna Carta
markets
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