Trevor J. Barnes completed an undergraduate degree at University College, London, and graduate degrees at the University of Minnesota, where Eric Sheppard was his doctoral supervisor. Barnes has been teaching at the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, since 1983. Much of his research has been in economic geography, and, recently, in the history of human geography since the Second World War. In 2018, with Brett Christophers, he published Economic Geography: A Critical Introduction. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and of the British Academy.

Nicholas Blomley teaches, studies, and performs ideas and practices relating to the critical and often oppressive relationship between law and space. He is particularly interested in the political geographies of land and property. He has worked at Simon Fraser University’s Department of Geography for 30 years, and has long wanted to explore its sidelined radical past.

Mark J. Bouman is the Chicago Region Program Director in the Field Museum’s Keller Science Action Center, where he leads the Museum’s interdisciplinary conservation and cultural heritage work in the Chicago region. Previously, he was Professor and Chairperson of the Department of Geography at Chicago State University. He led the development of the University’s Neighborhood Assistance Center, its Calumet Environmental Resource Center, and GIS Laboratory.

Yann Calbérac is a Lecturer at the University of Reims (France). His work mainly concerns the history of geography and social sciences. His current research deals with the spatial turn and the use of the category of space in the social sciences.

Verónica Crossa is an Associate Professor in Urban Studies at the Centro de Estudios Demográficos, Urbanos y Ambientales, at El Colegio de Mexico. Her research, at the intersection of urban, cultural geography and critical theory, examines how “order” is (re)produced and performed on the streets of contemporary cities, with a particular focus on changing notions of urban order triggered by revitalization policies in Mexico City´s public spaces. Her recent book, Luchando por un Espacio en la Ciudad de México: Espacio público urbano y el comercio ambulante (COLMEX, 2018), examines how street vendors in Mexico City negotiate and struggle over changing power structures in their everyday lives.

Nik Heynen is a Professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Georgia. His research interests include urban political ecology, social movement theory and politics of social reproduction. His main research foci relate to the analysis of how uneven social power relations, including race, gender, and class are inscribed in the transformation of nature/space, and how in turn these processes contribute to interrelated connections between nature, space and uneven development. He is currently Editor at the Annals of the American Association of Geographers and Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space.

Bryan Higgins is an Emeritus Distinguished Service Professor of Geography at the State University of New York. Drafted into the U.S. Army in the Viet Nam era and stationed in the Chemical Corps at Edgewood Arsenal, MD, providing Army “volunteers” psychoactive agents in chemical warfare research radically changed his worldview. Under the GI Bill, he received a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Minnesota. His early writing focused on the geographical revolutions of American Indians, radical geographies in the People’s Republic of Burlington Vermont and revolutionary geographies in Nicaragua. His later work addresses political ecology and ecotourism. As Director of International Education at SUNY Plattsburgh, he established progressive study abroad programs throughout the world.

Matthew T. Huber is Associate Professor of Geography at Syracuse University. His research focuses on energy, climate change, and the political economy of capitalism. His first book, Lifeblood: Oil, Freedom, and the Forces of Capital (University of Minnesota Press, 2013), examines the role of oil and suburbanization in the neoliberalization of American politics. He is currently writing a book on the intersection of climate change and class politics.

Cindi Katz teaches at The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Her work concerns social reproduction and the production of space, place and nature; managing insecurity in the domestic and public environment; the cultural politics of childhood; the consequences of global economic restructuring for everyday life; and the politics of knowledge. Antipode has been part of her life since she helped affix address labels to them back when they were held together with staples.

Juan‐Luis Klein (Ph.D. Université Laval) is a full Professor at the Geography Department of the University of Québec at Montreal and the former director of the Centre de recherche sur les innovations sociales (CRISES). His research projects are on economic geography, social innovation, and local and community development. He is a member of several editorial boards of scientific journals and is the director of the Géographie Contemporaine book series (Presses de l’Université du Québec).

Chris Knudson is a Postdoctoral Research Associate in the Institute of the Environment at the University of Arizona. He is a political ecologist whose research centers on the history, governance, and practice of managing ecological crises, particularly through the creation and use of financial risk management tools.

Audrey Kobayashi is a Professor of Geography and Queen’s Research Chair at Queen’s University. Her research and publications address a range of human rights issues including racialization, poverty, housing, and immigration, as well as the history of Geography. She recently co‐authored The Equity Myth: Racialization and Indigeneity at Canadian Universities and co‐edited The International Encyclopedia of Human Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology. She is currently the Editor for The Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edition, to be published in 2020.

Mickey Lauria is a Professor of City and Regional Planning and Director of the transdisciplinary Ph.D. program in Planning, Design, and the Built Environment at Clemson University. He has served as President of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, has edited the Journal of Planning Education and Research and Town Planning Review, and serves on the editorial boards of four planning journals. He has published articles on urban schooling, urban redevelopment, and politics and planning. His recent research interests include professional planners’ ethical frameworks, neighborhood conditions, and planning issues involving race and class, and conservation easements and affordable housing.

Brij Maharaj is an urban political geographer at the University of KwaZulu‐Natal, Durban, South Africa. He has received widespread recognition for his research on megaevents and social impacts, segregation, local economic development, xenophobia and human rights, migration, and diasporas. He has published over 150 scholarly papers on these themes in journals such as Urban Studies, International Journal of Urban and Regional Studies, Political Geography, Urban Geography, Antipode, Polity and Space, Geoforum, Local Economy, and GeoJournal, as well as five co‐edited book collections. He is a B‐rated NRF researcher.

Kent Mathewson is the Fred B. Kniffen Professor in the Department of Geography and Anthropology at Louisiana State University. His research interests include cultural, historical, and Latin American geography and the history of geography. He is author, editor, and coeditor of a number of books including Re‐Reading Cultural Geography, Culture, Form and Place, Concepts in Human Geography, Dangerous Harvest, and Carl Sauer on Culture and Landscape. Topics of current collaborative book projects include photography of the Guatemalan civil war, Elisée Reclus’ travels in Latin America, and a culture history of the castor plant (emphasizing the African diaspora).

Eugene McCann is University Professor of Geography at Simon Fraser University. An urban political geographer, he researches policy mobilities, urban policy‐making, development, public space, and planning. He is co‐editor, with Kevin Ward, of Mobile Urbanism (Minnesota, 2011) and of Cities & Social Change, with Ronan Paddison (Sage, 2014). He is co‐author, with Andy Jonas and Mary Thomas, of Urban Geography: A Critical Introduction (Wiley, 2015). He is managing editor of the journal EPC: Politics & Space.

Fujio Mizuoka received his Ph.D. in geography from Clark University in 1986 after teaching at the University of Hong Kong from 1979 to 1981. He then joined the Faculty of Economics, Hitotsubashi University to teach economic geography, retiring in 2016. His research interests focus on the critical theories of economic geography, the history of critical thought in geography, Marxian economics, central‐place theory, British colonialism in Hong Kong, the concepts of contemporary capitalism, and human rights issues in Japan's child welfare policies. He has published various articles in English; his recent book Contrived Laissez‐faireism (Springer Verlag) examines the unique art of colonial rule in post‐WWII Hong Kong.

Joanne Norcup is a historical and cultural geographer currently based at the Centre for Caribbean Studies, University of Warwick. Informed by feminist and intersectional ideas, her research centers on geographies of education, learning, and knowledge‐making, focusing on vernacular, dissenting, and transgressive practices, ideas, and productions. Current research areas include public library geographies, DIY education publications & archives, popular culture (including TV comedy and crime fiction), and lay nature, and environmental knowledges. Jo is the founding director of Geography Workshop, a radio and education resource production company whose recent work has been broadcast by BBC Radio and Resonance FM.

Linda Peake is a professor in Urban Studies and director of the City Institute at York University, Toronto. She has written widely in the field of critical human geography with interests in urban theory, feminist methodologies and, more recently, mental health. She is chair of the AAG Task Force on Mental Health, co‐editor of the special issue on “An engagement with planetary urbanization” in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space (2018) and of Urbanization in A Global Context (2017, OUP) (with Alison Bain) and principal investigator of the SSHRC funded GenUrb: Gender, urbanization and the global south.

Jamie Peck is the Canada Research Chair in Urban & Regional Political Economy and Professor of Geography at the University of British Columbia, Canada, where he is a Distinguished University Scholar. His recent books include Doreen Massey: Critical dialogues (2018, Agenda, co‐edited with Marion Werner, Rebecca Lave and Brett Christophers); Offshore: Exploring the Worlds of Global Outsourcing (Oxford, 2017); Fast Policy: Experimental Statecraft at the Thresholds of Neoliberalism (Minnesota, 2015, with Nik Theodore); and Constructions of Neoliberal Reason (2010, Oxford University Press).

Eric Sheppard is a Professor of geography and Alexander von Humboldt chair at UCLA. His scholarship embraces geographical political economy, uneven geographies of globalization, urban transformations, and informality in Indonesia, neoliberalism and its urban contestations, social movements and their spatialities, geographic information technologies and society, geographical philosophies and methods, and environmental justice. He has co‐authored or co‐edited nine books, most recently Limits to Globalization (Oxford University Press, 2016). He was active in the Union of Socialist Geographers (1977–1982), and co‐edited Antipode (1980–1986) before it became a highly profitable enterprise.

Renee Tapp is the Pollman Fellow in Real Estate and Urban Development at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design. She received her Ph.D. in Geography from Clark University in 2018. Her research interests include the geographies of tax and finance, urban redevelopment, urban politics, and modernist architecture. Currently, she is examining the impact shell companies and tax evasion have on rental markets in the United States.

Gwendolyn C. Warren is a long‐time public sector administrator, who has distinguished herself as a leader in the areas of education, health, social and community services. She has worked in executive level capacities in city and county government in California, Florida, and Georgia, working with diverse populations that add unique and challenging issues to the provision of quality government services, and serving with the goal to maximize human capacity. She became Co‐Director of the Detroit Geographical Expedition and Institute at the age of 18, shaping many of its mapping projects, and serving as a key author of its Field Notes and leader of its educational component.

The Antipode Book Series explores radical geography “antipodally,” in opposition, from various margins, limits, or borderlands.

Antipode books provide insight “from elsewhere,” across boundaries rarely transgressed, with internationalist ambition and located insight; they diagnose grounded critique emerging from particular contradictory social relations in order to sharpen the stakes and broaden public awareness. An Antipode book might revise scholarly debates by pushing at disciplinary boundaries, or by showing what happens to a problem as it moves or changes. It might investigate entanglements of power and struggle in particular sites, but with lessons that travel with surprising echoes elsewhere.

Antipode books will be theoretically bold and empirically rich, written in lively, accessible prose that does not sacrifice clarity at the altar of sophistication. We seek books from within and beyond the discipline of geography that deploy geographical critique in order to understand and transform our fractured world.

The idea for this book, marking the 50th Anniversary of Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography, was hatched when one of us (Sheppard) was completing an essay with Linda Peake, commissioned for a putative edited book by Lawrence Berg.¹ Our essay sought to deconstruct the Clark University‐centered history of Anglophone North American radical geography that is commonly narrated. Realizing that some of the early figures of the 1960s generation of radical geography had passed or were rapidly aging, Sheppard approached Barnes to tap his experience in interviewing first generation quantitative geographers and narrating their history. For both of us, it felt exciting to extend this methodology to the history of radical geography that had so profoundly shaped our lives. But the project felt too big. Gradually, we recruited others, notably that included bringing their own ideas to the project. We were able to benefit from a workshop in Vancouver in 2013 with Nik Heynen, Audrey Kobayashi, Linda Peake, Jamie Peck, and Bobby Wilson, funded by the Antipode Foundation. When we finally brought this project to the 2016 San Francisco Association of American Geographers’ annual meeting, the enthusiastic response from an engaged audience, including ghosts emerging from radical geography’s deep past, encouraged us to bring the project to print. Over the years, we broadened this multi‐nodal account to also incorporate voices from beyond Canada and the U.S., recruiting a second round of authors. Notably, virtually no‐one who we asked declined to participate; Linda Peake was unable to help with the editing, but contributed her own chapter. Authors went beyond any temptation to craft second‐hand accounts, interviewing early radical geographers and digging into gray literatures and departmental archives. Thus this book took some time to come together as a final product. The result, we think, catches the complex spirits of these times before they fade into the past, and their influence on the contemporary discipline is lost to memory.

We would like to acknowledge a $6,000 grant from the Antipode Foundation, making possible an early workshop that brought energy to this collective. We also wish to thank the many interviewees contacted during the research reported here for their willing and informative collaboration, as well as Matt Zebrowski, cartographer in the UCLA Department of Geography, for his help with improving some of the images.