J Jakobsen
Biographic Data
| ID | 51305 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Jakobsen |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Jakobsen |
| SIGNATURE | JAKOBSEN J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oslo |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2284-6106 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 135 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Caught in the coop: Local labour control regimes in poultry supply chains under avian influenza
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) pose an escalating threat to global poultry supply chains, with their management highlighting reconfigurations in economic geography through the increasing centrality of actors and processes beyond the farm-level. Taking HPAI outbreaks in Denmark as our empirical focus, we argue that outbreaks and their management reveal poultry growers’ lack of control over the labour process. Growers organiz…
Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co‐Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political‐economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of …
How to turn over an egg: Rethinking the temporality of global value chains amidst emerging infectious diseases
The temporality of global value chains is an important area of concern for economic geographers. This paper argues for the analytical value of closely examining the category of 'turnover time' as articulated in Marx's work and subsequent historical-geographical materialism. We argue that turnover times of capitals in competition - hence struggles over time - can be conceptualised as a driving force behind what the GVC literature refers to as 'cha…
Turnover time in the pandemic era: Industrial Poultry, Avian Influenza and Capitalist Strategies
Beyond Contracts: Supply Chains and Dynamics of Incorporation Among Classes of Capital in the Aftermath of Global Outbreaks of Avian Flu
This study investigates how agricultural producers are incorporated into commodity circuits under contemporary capitalism, in the context of growing pressures from emerging infectious diseases. Focusing on poultry production systems in Denmark and Norway currently under threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza, we argue that understanding these dynamics requires an expanded conception of agriculture that accounts for the contractual arrangem…
Bovine meat, authoritarian populism, and state contradictions in Modi's India
While authoritarian populism and its relationship to the rural world have gained analytical prominence recently, few have attempted a systematic exploration of how various authoritarian populisms emerge from, and are embedded within, dynamics of capital accumulation, state, and class struggle. Drawing on Poulantzas' approach to “state contradictions,” we focus on the ways by which bovine meat figures in Narendra Modi's authoritarian populist proj…
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden
A new wave of encroachments is unfolding in Northern Sweden on the lands of Indigenous Sámi reindeer pastoralists. Even if the State and corporations may accept that landscape transformations represent threats to reindeer pastoralists' cultural and livelihood practices, attempts to redress these grievances often involve money to cover costs associated with feeding practices or mechanized transport. This paper considers these landscape transformat…
The 'brother layer problem: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of 'ethical sustainability' in industrial poultry
The global poultry industry culls approximately seven billion day-old male layer chicks annually. Superfluous to both egg and meat, male 'brother' layers constitute a momentous problem, simultaneously economical and ethical, to the poultry industry. In this article, we scrutinize present and proposed alternatives to routine killing involving multiple biotechnological innovations, including novel methods for fetus sexing, genome editing technologi…
Beyond subject-making: Conflicting humanisms, class analysis, and the “dark side” of Gramscian political ecology
This article examines conflicting conceptualizations of the human subject in political ecology and geography: Foucauldian views of “subject-making” and Gramscian views of “the person”. While Foucauldian work holds that the more complete exertion of power, the more coherent subject-making, Gramscian historical–geographical perspectives counter that, the more complete exertion of power, the more incoherent persons and their class-based collectiviti…
The imperial maize assemblage: Maize dialectics in Malawi and India
The 'grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are 'political crops' intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human political ecology, we explore the grain hypothesis with empirical material from present day Malawi and India. The evolution and ecology of the maize plant, we argue, has made it a strong agent of history, one that has enabled…
Nightmarch: Among India’s revolutionary guerrillas
Alpa Shah’s monograph offers a unique insight into the complex, tension-ridden and contradictory unfolding of a revolutionary movement among central-eastern India’s tribal (Adivasi) populations. Ta
New food regime geographies: Scale, state, labor
Food regime analysis is a prominent approach to the role of food and agriculture in global capitalism. Yet recent advancement within the approach has not received as much attention as it deserves outside of specialized circles of agrarian research. Food regime scholarship has over the last few years taken several steps to move away from its previous prevalent emphasis on macro-scale phenomena to make it more applicable to empirical research on ag…
The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital
Conclusion: Out of the Entrails—Reflections on Human Power
Claws & Teeth: The Militarization of Nature
Studying the Worldeater(s): Political Ecology and Critical Agrarian Studies and Their Origins, Differences and Convergence
The Spirit and Metaphysical Form of Capitalism: Devils, Worms, Octopuses and Worldeater(s)
Introduction: Consuming Everything—Capitalism and the Imperative of Total Extractivism
The Worldeater(s) in Process: Uncovering the Nexus of Conventional and ‘Green’ Extraction
Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption pattern change through economic development, critical geographies have turned to exploring the uneven capitalist processes underpinning what Tony Weis calls ‘meatification’. In Weis’ view, meatification unfolds through what he calls…
Compounding aspirations: Grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations
This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding of hegemonic processes of neoliberalisation in lived experience. Taking such aspirations as constitutive elements to hegemonic processes, we question prevailing perspectives on rural transformations in India as we speak to emergi…
The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime
This contribution explores how new regions and crops are integrated in the contemporary food regime through a fieldwork-based approach to maize cultivation in rural Karnataka, South India. As an intrinsic part of the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex, maize is an important component of the contemporary food regime. I argue that the expansion of maize at the village level follows commodity frontier dynamics, located at the conjuncture of …
Geographies of meatification: An emerging Asian meat complex
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the geographies of these processes have been left largely unexplored. This paper maps the changing geographies of meat with special focus on Southeast Asia. We use Tony Weis’ concept of ‘the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’ t…
Neoliberalising the food regime 'amongst its others: The right to food and the state in India
This contribution explores the role of the state in the contemporary food regime in light of critical theories of neoliberalisation. Heeding recent calls for downscaling food regime analysis, I suggest a Gramscian reinterpretation of recent right-to-food legislation in India on the backdrop of longer histories of capital, power and nature. I argue for seeing the recent right-to-food case in India as partaking in a longstanding hegemonic process o…
Towards a Gramscian food regime analysis of India’s agrarian crisis: Counter-movements, petrofarming and Cheap Nature
Neoliberalising the food regime 'amongst its others: The right to food and the state in India
This contribution explores the role of the state in the contemporary food regime in light of critical theories of neoliberalisation. Heeding recent calls for downscaling food regime analysis, I suggest a Gramscian reinterpretation of recent right-to-food legislation in India on the backdrop of longer histories of capital, power and nature. I argue for seeing the recent right-to-food case in India as partaking in a longstanding hegemonic process o…
Geographies of meatification: An emerging Asian meat complex
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the geographies of these processes have been left largely unexplored. This paper maps the changing geographies of meat with special focus on Southeast Asia. We use Tony Weis’ concept of ‘the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’ t…
New food regime geographies: Scale, state, labor
Food regime analysis is a prominent approach to the role of food and agriculture in global capitalism. Yet recent advancement within the approach has not received as much attention as it deserves outside of specialized circles of agrarian research. Food regime scholarship has over the last few years taken several steps to move away from its previous prevalent emphasis on macro-scale phenomena to make it more applicable to empirical research on ag…
Towards a Gramscian food regime analysis of India’s agrarian crisis: Counter-movements, petrofarming and Cheap Nature
Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption pattern change through economic development, critical geographies have turned to exploring the uneven capitalist processes underpinning what Tony Weis calls ‘meatification’. In Weis’ view, meatification unfolds through what he calls…
The imperial maize assemblage: Maize dialectics in Malawi and India
The 'grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are 'political crops' intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human political ecology, we explore the grain hypothesis with empirical material from present day Malawi and India. The evolution and ecology of the maize plant, we argue, has made it a strong agent of history, one that has enabled…
Compounding aspirations: Grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations
This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding of hegemonic processes of neoliberalisation in lived experience. Taking such aspirations as constitutive elements to hegemonic processes, we question prevailing perspectives on rural transformations in India as we speak to emergi…
The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital
Beyond subject-making: Conflicting humanisms, class analysis, and the “dark side” of Gramscian political ecology
This article examines conflicting conceptualizations of the human subject in political ecology and geography: Foucauldian views of “subject-making” and Gramscian views of “the person”. While Foucauldian work holds that the more complete exertion of power, the more coherent subject-making, Gramscian historical–geographical perspectives counter that, the more complete exertion of power, the more incoherent persons and their class-based collectiviti…
The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime
This contribution explores how new regions and crops are integrated in the contemporary food regime through a fieldwork-based approach to maize cultivation in rural Karnataka, South India. As an intrinsic part of the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex, maize is an important component of the contemporary food regime. I argue that the expansion of maize at the village level follows commodity frontier dynamics, located at the conjuncture of …
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden
A new wave of encroachments is unfolding in Northern Sweden on the lands of Indigenous Sámi reindeer pastoralists. Even if the State and corporations may accept that landscape transformations represent threats to reindeer pastoralists' cultural and livelihood practices, attempts to redress these grievances often involve money to cover costs associated with feeding practices or mechanized transport. This paper considers these landscape transformat…
Dangerous Liaisons: Unveiling the Co‐Constitution of Emerging Infectious Diseases and Industrial Meat Production
Outbreaks of highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) have intensified over the last decade, spotlighting the concept of “epicentre” as a means of locating disease origins. Although epicentre thinking can facilitate rapid interventions, it often overlooks the political‐economic and ecological forces driving outbreaks. Drawing on critical geography, political ecology, and global supply chain analyses, we reconceptualise the epicentre as “a set of …
Turnover time in the pandemic era: Industrial Poultry, Avian Influenza and Capitalist Strategies
The 'brother layer problem: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of 'ethical sustainability' in industrial poultry
The global poultry industry culls approximately seven billion day-old male layer chicks annually. Superfluous to both egg and meat, male 'brother' layers constitute a momentous problem, simultaneously economical and ethical, to the poultry industry. In this article, we scrutinize present and proposed alternatives to routine killing involving multiple biotechnological innovations, including novel methods for fetus sexing, genome editing technologi…
Mapping the World's Largest Democracy (1947-2017)
After seven decades as an independent democratic nation, India's social landscape remains marred by persistent contradictions and inequalities. As the country moves from celebrating 70 years of independence towards its seventeenth general election in 2019, this article sets out to survey what democracy has done to India over the past 70 years. How was Indian democracy established and how has it evolved? Why do people vote, and who do they vote fo…
Beyond Contracts: Supply Chains and Dynamics of Incorporation Among Classes of Capital in the Aftermath of Global Outbreaks of Avian Flu
This study investigates how agricultural producers are incorporated into commodity circuits under contemporary capitalism, in the context of growing pressures from emerging infectious diseases. Focusing on poultry production systems in Denmark and Norway currently under threat from highly pathogenic avian influenza, we argue that understanding these dynamics requires an expanded conception of agriculture that accounts for the contractual arrangem…
Teeth and jaws of the Qilakitsoq mummies
In 1972, well-preserved mummies of six adult Eskimo women and two children (an infant of about six months and a boy of 31⁄2 – 41⁄2 years) were found at Qilakitsoq in the Uummannaq District, Northwest Greenland. Death occurred about 500 years ago. A multidisciplinary study of these mummies included age estimation, dental anatomy, dental numerical variations, pathology of dental hard tissues and jaw bones. And evidence of temporo-mandibular joint d…
The People
Faith based on what? A roundtable discussion
The following roundtable developed from a special topics forum, ''Faith Based on What? Feminist Scholars of Religion Speak Out about the Bush Administration and Public Policy'', presented at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion in Denver in November 2001. The AAR Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession sponsored this session to highlight one of the major obstacles for women in the profession: the absence of women's vo…
Revue des revues
Towards a Gramscian food regime analysis of India’s agrarian crisis: Counter-movements, petrofarming and Cheap Nature
Mapping the World's Largest Democracy (1947-2017)
After seven decades as an independent democratic nation, India's social landscape remains marred by persistent contradictions and inequalities. As the country moves from celebrating 70 years of independence towards its seventeenth general election in 2019, this article sets out to survey what democracy has done to India over the past 70 years. How was Indian democracy established and how has it evolved? Why do people vote, and who do they vote fo…
Geographies of meatification: An emerging Asian meat complex
The ‘meatification’ of human diets has been subject to increasing scholarly attention in recent years, along with its many impacts. While the rapidly expanding meatification in many Asian countries has been noted, the geographies of these processes have been left largely unexplored. This paper maps the changing geographies of meat with special focus on Southeast Asia. We use Tony Weis’ concept of ‘the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’ t…
Neoliberalising the food regime 'amongst its others: The right to food and the state in India
This contribution explores the role of the state in the contemporary food regime in light of critical theories of neoliberalisation. Heeding recent calls for downscaling food regime analysis, I suggest a Gramscian reinterpretation of recent right-to-food legislation in India on the backdrop of longer histories of capital, power and nature. I argue for seeing the recent right-to-food case in India as partaking in a longstanding hegemonic process o…
Conclusion: Out of the Entrails—Reflections on Human Power
Claws & Teeth: The Militarization of Nature
Studying the Worldeater(s): Political Ecology and Critical Agrarian Studies and Their Origins, Differences and Convergence
The Spirit and Metaphysical Form of Capitalism: Devils, Worms, Octopuses and Worldeater(s)
Introduction: Consuming Everything—Capitalism and the Imperative of Total Extractivism
The Worldeater(s) in Process: Uncovering the Nexus of Conventional and ‘Green’ Extraction
Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China
The rapidly escalating production and consumption of meat across the world has drawn much attention in recent years. While mainstream accounts tend to see the phenomenon as driven by ‘natural’ processes of consumption pattern change through economic development, critical geographies have turned to exploring the uneven capitalist processes underpinning what Tony Weis calls ‘meatification’. In Weis’ view, meatification unfolds through what he calls…
Compounding aspirations: Grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations
This article introduces compounding aspirations as a key concept for interrogating complex and contradictory rural transformations in India. We argue that compounding aspirations are central to the conjunctural grounding of hegemonic processes of neoliberalisation in lived experience. Taking such aspirations as constitutive elements to hegemonic processes, we question prevailing perspectives on rural transformations in India as we speak to emergi…
The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime
This contribution explores how new regions and crops are integrated in the contemporary food regime through a fieldwork-based approach to maize cultivation in rural Karnataka, South India. As an intrinsic part of the industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex, maize is an important component of the contemporary food regime. I argue that the expansion of maize at the village level follows commodity frontier dynamics, located at the conjuncture of …
Nightmarch: Among India’s revolutionary guerrillas
Alpa Shah’s monograph offers a unique insight into the complex, tension-ridden and contradictory unfolding of a revolutionary movement among central-eastern India’s tribal (Adivasi) populations. Ta
New food regime geographies: Scale, state, labor
Food regime analysis is a prominent approach to the role of food and agriculture in global capitalism. Yet recent advancement within the approach has not received as much attention as it deserves outside of specialized circles of agrarian research. Food regime scholarship has over the last few years taken several steps to move away from its previous prevalent emphasis on macro-scale phenomena to make it more applicable to empirical research on ag…
The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital
Beyond subject-making: Conflicting humanisms, class analysis, and the “dark side” of Gramscian political ecology
This article examines conflicting conceptualizations of the human subject in political ecology and geography: Foucauldian views of “subject-making” and Gramscian views of “the person”. While Foucauldian work holds that the more complete exertion of power, the more coherent subject-making, Gramscian historical–geographical perspectives counter that, the more complete exertion of power, the more incoherent persons and their class-based collectiviti…
The imperial maize assemblage: Maize dialectics in Malawi and India
The 'grain hypothesis', postulated by James Scott, suggests that cereals are 'political crops' intrinsic to state formation. Drawing the classical agrarian political economy of maize into dialogue with recent more-than-human political ecology, we explore the grain hypothesis with empirical material from present day Malawi and India. The evolution and ecology of the maize plant, we argue, has made it a strong agent of history, one that has enabled…
Bovine meat, authoritarian populism, and state contradictions in Modi's India
While authoritarian populism and its relationship to the rural world have gained analytical prominence recently, few have attempted a systematic exploration of how various authoritarian populisms emerge from, and are embedded within, dynamics of capital accumulation, state, and class struggle. Drawing on Poulantzas' approach to “state contradictions,” we focus on the ways by which bovine meat figures in Narendra Modi's authoritarian populist proj…
Public contestations against the disturbance, degradation, and destruction of Sámi pastoral landscapes in northern Sweden
A new wave of encroachments is unfolding in Northern Sweden on the lands of Indigenous Sámi reindeer pastoralists. Even if the State and corporations may accept that landscape transformations represent threats to reindeer pastoralists' cultural and livelihood practices, attempts to redress these grievances often involve money to cover costs associated with feeding practices or mechanized transport. This paper considers these landscape transformat…
The 'brother layer problem: Routine killing, biotechnology and the pursuit of 'ethical sustainability' in industrial poultry
The global poultry industry culls approximately seven billion day-old male layer chicks annually. Superfluous to both egg and meat, male 'brother' layers constitute a momentous problem, simultaneously economical and ethical, to the poultry industry. In this article, we scrutinize present and proposed alternatives to routine killing involving multiple biotechnological innovations, including novel methods for fetus sexing, genome editing technologi…
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