Joel Wainwright, associate professor of geography, along with Geoff Mann, associate professor of geography, Simon Fraser University, have written a paper on the political consequences of the responses to the threats of climate change for Antipode, a radical journal of geography. Their study, Climate Leviathan, is freely available online (it’s open access – no subscription required) until the end of the year. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8330.2012.01018.x/abstract

Since 1969, Antipode has published peer-reviewed papers which offer a radical analysis of geographical issues and whose intent is to engender the development of a new and better society. According to the journal, Wainwright and Mann’s paper is “a singularly ambitious work; it’s original, innovative, tremendously provocative, and it pushes the boundaries of radical scholarship.”

Antipode has commissioned and published four responses to Wainwright and Mann’s paper. They also are freely available on line at:
http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/barkan_climate-http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/labban_climate-leviathan.pdfleviathan.pdf
http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/bigger_climate-leviathan.pdf
http://radicalantipode.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/lohmann_climate-leviathan.pdf

A reply from Wainwright and Mann will be published in a month.

For more information on Antipode, go to AntipodeFoundation.org