AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-06DOI: 10.1111/anti.70192
Kapil Yadav, Emma Tebbs, Kate Schreckenberg
{"title":"Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India's Political Forests","authors":"Kapil Yadav, Emma Tebbs, Kate Schreckenberg","doi":"10.1111/anti.70192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70192","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Why does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire's ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons but as a political technology of state territorial control. Drawing on archival research and interviews, we trace how colonial era legal and institutional frameworks criminalising community fire use have been carried across successive policy shifts, from timber extraction to biodiversity conservation to carbon sequestration, centralising authority over forest landscapes and reordering ecologies to serve external interests over local populations. Political forests, however, are not only state projects. Forest-dwelling communities sustain relational lifeworlds through fire practices that exceed the logics of state and capital. Recognising fire suppression as a political tool demands reckoning with the colonial legal frameworks that sustain it and opens the possibility for more just and ecologically grounded fire futures.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70192","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752856","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-05DOI: 10.1111/anti.70191
Ilan Kapoor
{"title":"Against Pluriversality: Epistemology, Ideology, and the Disavowal of Capitalist Antagonism","authors":"Ilan Kapoor","doi":"10.1111/anti.70191","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70191","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Recent years have witnessed a dramatic surge of interest in decolonial pluriversality across critical geography, political ecology, and development studies. Advanced most prominently by scholars, such as Walter Mignolo and Arturo Escobar, pluriversality promises a world in which multiple ontologies, epistemologies, and lifeways coexist without subordination to Western modernity. Although this project has contributed important critiques of Eurocentrism and epistemic violence, the present article offers an immanent critique of pluriversality as a contemporary political ontology. I argue that, in privileging epistemological difference and cultural authenticity, dominant strands of pluriversal thought systematically displace questions of political economy, class antagonism, and state power. Existing critiques have identified this displacement, yet they often treat it as a theoretical oversight rather than as an ideological formation. Drawing on Marxist political economy and Lacanian psychoanalysis—particularly the recent reworking of disavowal by Alenka Zupančič and current research on psychoanalytic geography—the article advances a different claim: Pluriversality operates through a fetishistic disavowal of capitalism, offering a libidinally satisfying fantasy of non-antagonistic plurality that leaves the structures of accumulation, exploitation, and domination intact. Against this epistemological politics of difference, I argue for an antagonistic conception of universality grounded not in shared identity or culture, but in common exposure to capitalist dispossession and socio-ecological crisis.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70191","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-05DOI: 10.1111/anti.70191
Ilan Kapoor
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AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.70189
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
{"title":"Hospitality as Worldmaking: The Archive, Methods, and Genres of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i","authors":"Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez","doi":"10.1111/anti.70189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70189","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This essay is an expanded and revised version of the 2024 <i>Antipode</i> Lecture at the American Association of Geographers conference. It takes seriously how touristic genres transform discourses about place into lived materiality, especially in sites where touristic desire is intimately woven into necropolitical structures of occupation, militarism, and settler colonialism. Taking as its point of departure the edited collection <i>Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i</i>, it foregrounds the worldmaking power of narrative as a crucial instrument for deoccupation, demilitarization, and decolonialism. Focused on Hawai‘i, a place both profoundly shaped by tourism and actively working against its erasures and distortions, this essay grapples with how decolonizing narratives manifest and make room for what Epeli Hau‘ofa has described as the “vast,” “expanding,” “hospitable and generous” worlds of Pacific encounter that are already in emergence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-04DOI: 10.1111/anti.70189
Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez
{"title":"Hospitality as Worldmaking: The Archive, Methods, and Genres of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i","authors":"Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez","doi":"10.1111/anti.70189","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70189","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This essay is an expanded and revised version of the 2024 <i>Antipode</i> Lecture at the American Association of Geographers conference. It takes seriously how touristic genres transform discourses about place into lived materiality, especially in sites where touristic desire is intimately woven into necropolitical structures of occupation, militarism, and settler colonialism. Taking as its point of departure the edited collection <i>Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawai‘i</i>, it foregrounds the worldmaking power of narrative as a crucial instrument for deoccupation, demilitarization, and decolonialism. Focused on Hawai‘i, a place both profoundly shaped by tourism and actively working against its erasures and distortions, this essay grapples with how decolonizing narratives manifest and make room for what Epeli Hau‘ofa has described as the “vast,” “expanding,” “hospitable and generous” worlds of Pacific encounter that are already in emergence.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148752519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.70186
David Singh
{"title":"Wind Masculinities: Extractive, Caste, and Nationalist Rule in Rural India","authors":"David Singh","doi":"10.1111/anti.70186","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70186","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper shows how India's wind electricity regime does not simply decarbonize electricity; it reorganizes power through a distinctive wind masculinity—a caste-coded, infrastructural mode of rule that keeps money, machines, and people moving. It extends the notions of petro-/solar masculinities to a South Asian scholarship on caste, Hindu nationalism, and rural patriarchy. Drawing on 7 months of multi-sited ethnography in Kutch, Gujarat, the paper traces how wind's dispersed materialities elevate men who can convert engineering expertise, upper caste authority, party ties, and police access into uninterrupted logistical flows. Three empirical strands anchor the argument: (1) wind masculinities are extractive, where site-making and engineers domesticate land and schedules; (2) they are caste-coded masculinities, where dominant caste brokers perform the “dirty business” of energy politics; (3) Hindu nationalist masculinities take shape in border wind corridors, where saffron symbols and discretionary gaze mark Muslim villages as suspect spaces to penetrate, surveil, and reclaim.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70186","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662434","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.70180
Mai Taha, Sara Salem
{"title":"Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism","authors":"Mai Taha, Sara Salem","doi":"10.1111/anti.70180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70180","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How does sound chart a different story of anticolonialism? Sound could perhaps draw out another map of space in history. Mirroring the form of sound waves, this article travels across borders, following the way sound waves themselves move. This is partly what makes sound so important, and what made the radio so central to anticolonial movements: Sound waves built new relations of solidarity because they could not be confined within colonial borders. From official state radio stations such as Voice of the Arabs in Egypt to pirate radio stations run by rebel movements, such as the Voice of Palestine, Radio Freedom in South Africa, and Voice of the Free and Fighting Algeria, the sounds of anticolonialism were often broadcast through radio waves. In this article, we draw out the rich landscape of radio broadcasting, from cultural programming to armed struggle and labor organizing.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662436","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.70188
Trevor Barnes
{"title":"Separating the Wood From the Trees: A Commentary","authors":"Trevor Barnes","doi":"10.1111/anti.70188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662431","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.70180
Mai Taha, Sara Salem
{"title":"Sonic Cartographies of Internationalism","authors":"Mai Taha, Sara Salem","doi":"10.1111/anti.70180","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70180","url":null,"abstract":"<p>How does sound chart a different story of anticolonialism? Sound could perhaps draw out another map of space in history. Mirroring the form of sound waves, this article travels across borders, following the way sound waves themselves move. This is partly what makes sound so important, and what made the radio so central to anticolonial movements: Sound waves built new relations of solidarity because they could not be confined within colonial borders. From official state radio stations such as Voice of the Arabs in Egypt to pirate radio stations run by rebel movements, such as the Voice of Palestine, Radio Freedom in South Africa, and Voice of the Free and Fighting Algeria, the sounds of anticolonialism were often broadcast through radio waves. In this article, we draw out the rich landscape of radio broadcasting, from cultural programming to armed struggle and labor organizing.</p>","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/anti.70180","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662433","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
AntipodePub Date : 2026-08-03DOI: 10.1111/anti.70188
Trevor Barnes
{"title":"Separating the Wood From the Trees: A Commentary","authors":"Trevor Barnes","doi":"10.1111/anti.70188","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/anti.70188","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":8241,"journal":{"name":"Antipode","volume":"58 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.7,"publicationDate":"2026-08-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"148662435","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}