New left

Abstract

This chapter traces the ongoing importance and relevance of New Left political trajectories in the current political conjuncture. The transnational political vision and anti-colonial internationalisms of the New Left impacted on the pages of Antipode in various ways, including through emergent discussions between geographers and theorists of underdevelopment. These concerns were developed in two issues published in 1977 on “Socio-Economic Formation” and “Geography and Underdevelopment” respectively, which sought to engage with “problems of the Third World” and challenged the hegemony of western “development” experts by including authors from the global South. Engaging the different ways in which diverse forms of agency become articulated as part of Left political projects is of renewed political relevance in the current conjuncture. Given the emergent antagonisms around the post-crisis conjuncture and the rise of racialised right-wing populisms, finding ways of developing such linkages and strategies is an urgent task that radical geographers have much to contribute to.