The Anti-Atlas reflects forty-five different understandings of geopolitical critique and positionality. An eclectic book that plays with the politics of the conventional atlas, with its assumptions about knowledge and power.

My entry sketches the outlines of a transnational continent of the (semi-) fringes. Less Moscow or London, more Leicester, Tampere, Murcia and Tallinn, as my own career evidences. The much-attested disadvantages of peripheral status, including the centres’ refusal to see such locales on their own terms, are here compensated by the advantages (ambiguity and distance) of relative remoteness – though peripherality can be as much a political condition as a state of mind and a geography of displacement.

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