Jostein Jakobsen

• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2022). Bovine meat, authoritarian populism, and state contradictions in Modi's India. Journal of Agrarian Change. ISSN 1471-0358. doi: 10.1111/joac.12495. Vis sammendrag

  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 project in contemporary India. On the one hand, violent authoritarianism in the country uses beef eating as a powerful tool for subjugating subaltern groups to Hindutva rule. On the other hand, the country houses a rapidly expanding beef meat agro-industry, accounting for as much as 20% of global exports and based on corporate concentration around dominant class interests. We argue that this points to state contradictions in Modi's India witnessing strained accumulation patterns. These contradictions, we emphasize, have distinct ramifications for India's classes of labour in the countryside, as certain groups experience what we describe as a process of “double victimization.”

• Fischer, Klara; Jakobsen, Jostein & Westengen, Ola (2022). The political ecology of crops: From seed to state and capital. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.12.011.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2022). Beyond subject-making: Conflicting humanisms, class analysis, and the “dark side” of Gramscian political ecology . Progress in Human Geography. ISSN 0309-1325. doi: 10.1177/03091325211056442. Vis sammendrag

  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 collectivities. Outlining incongruities between these approaches, I argue that the “dark side” of Gramscian political ecology—with its emphasis on incoherence and fracture–allows geographers new nuance in understanding the human subject, although not without challenges to the actual writing of such scholarship.

• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Bovine Contradictions: The Politics Of (De)Meatification And Hindutva Hegemony In Neoliberal India. I Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (Red.), Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 978-1-5381-4265-3.
• Hansen, Arve; Jakobsen, Jostein & Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn (2021). New Geographies of Global Meatification: The BRICS in the Industrial Meat Complex. I Hansen, Arve & Syse, Karen Lykke (Red.), Changing Meat Cultures: Food Practices, Global Capitalism, and the Consumption of Animals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISSN 978-1-5381-4265-3. s. 35–58.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). New food regime geographies: Scale, state, labor. World Development. ISSN 0305-750X. 145, s. 1–7. doi: 10.1016/j.worlddev.2021.105523. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Westengen, Ola (2021). The imperial maize assemblage: maize dialectics in Malawi and India. Journal of Peasant Studies. ISSN 0306-6150. s. 1–25. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2021.1890042. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hansen, Arve & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Meatification and everyday geographies of consumption in Vietnam and China. Geografiska Annaler: Series B, Human Geography. ISSN 0435-3684. doi: 10.1080/04353684.2019.1709217. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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 industrial grain-oilseed-livestock complex’, which is presently becoming a dominant form of agricultural production worldwide. Simultaneously, but less thoroughly investigated in the emerging scholarship, meatification unfolds in and through everyday geographies of consumption that we conceptualize as variegated ‘meatscapes’. By bringing together critical geographers’ interest in the political economy of meat with practice theory and consumption research, this contribution furthers the geographical dialogue around the spatial transformations brought about by meatification. Looking at Vietnam and China as examples of rapidly meatifying countries, we explore the intersection of macro-scale spatial transformations through trade and commodity flows and, at the micro-scale, transformations in food practices. We thus argue for an approach to meatification that is multi-scalar and conducive to further regionally specific research of meatification in Asia and beyond.

• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2019). Compounding aspirations: grounding hegemonic processes in India's rural transformations. Revue canadienne d'études du développement. ISSN 0225-5189. doi: 10.1080/02255189.2019.1666706. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2019). The maize frontier in rural South India: Exploring the everyday dynamics of the contemporary food regime. Journal of Agrarian Change. ISSN 1471-0358. 20(1), s. 1–26. doi: 10.1111/joac.12337. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Hansen, Arve (2019). Geographies of meatification: an emerging Asian meat complex. Globalizations. ISSN 1474-7731. 17(1), s. 93–109. doi: 10.1080/14747731.2019.1614723. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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’ to analyse how forms of systemic meatification are taking place in Asia. We map and analyse regional trends in meat production and consumption, as well as trade patterns in meat products and dominant feed crops. We argue that the regional meat complex emerges through increasingly regional development processes and capital, as well as through new South-South connections. The geographies of meatification in Southeast Asia thus constitute an empirical manifestation of the emerging multipolarity of the global food regime.

• Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2019). Mapping the World’s Largest Democracy (1947–2017). Forum for Development Studies. ISSN 0803-9410. 46(1), s. 83–108. doi: 10.1080/08039410.2018.1465461. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2018). Neoliberalising the food regime 'amongst its others': the right to food and the state in India. Journal of Peasant Studies. ISSN 0306-6150. s. 1–21. doi: 10.1080/03066150.2018.1449745.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2018). Towards a Gramscian food regime analysis of India's agrarian crisis: Counter-movements, petrofarming and Cheap Nature. Geoforum. ISSN 0016-7185. 90, s. 1–10. doi: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2018.01.015. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Inside and Outside the State: Imagining the Indian State among Subalternists and Naxalites. I Basu, Pradip (Red.), Naxalite Politics: Post-structuralist, Postcolonial and Subaltern Perspectives. Setu Prakashani. ISSN 978-93-80677-23-1. s. 283–298.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in Northern Telangana. I Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (Red.), Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 978-1-137-59132-6. s. 239–267. doi: 10.1057/978-1-137-59133-3_11.

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• Dunlap, Alexander & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). The Violent Technologies of Extraction: Political Ecology, Critical Agrarian Studies and The Capitalist Worldeater. Palgrave Pivot. ISBN 978-3-030-26851-0. 171 s.

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• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2022). Indisk proteksjonisme og den globale matkrisen. Transit magasin.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2022). Russlands utenriksminister i New Delhi utfordrer Indias balansegang. Transit magasin.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2022). Indias ukrainske dilemma. Transit magasin.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2022). Tid for motvekst? [Fagblad]. Fri Tanke: Medlemsblad for Human-Etisk Forbund.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Den indiske bondeseieren. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Uro i Nagaland. Væpnet konflikt har preget regionen i flere tiår . Transit magasin.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Dystre skygger over pave-møtet . Vårt land. ISSN 0805-5424.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). India: COP, kull og den vanskelige grønne omstillingen. Transit magasin.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). India brenner: Åkrene i nord står i flammer – igjen. Transit magasin.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Utviklingen av det globale matsystemet - hva nå? LatinAmerika tidsskrift. 26(3), s. 4–7.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Volden i Uttar Pradesh viser regjeringspartiets harde linje mot bondeopprøret. Transit magasin.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). India: landet uten opposisjon? Transit magasin.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Pegasus-skandalen rammer India. Transit magasin.
• Aguilar-Støen, Mariel & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Prisen for å produsere billig mat. Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Diplomati og nasjonalisme i en vaksinetid. Transit magasin.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2021). Avskogingspandemien. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Gramsci i vår tid. Salongen – nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie. ISSN 2703-7053.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Narendra Modi, krisenes mann. Transit magasin.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Kapitalisme, pandemier og industrielt landbruk.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Dype riper i Modis teflon. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Akademisk frihet under press i India. Uniforum. ISSN 1891-5825.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Narendra Modi's authoritarian neoliberalism. Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Narendra Modi. I Bolstad, Erik (Red.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2021). Store norske leksikon. ISSN 0000000000000.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Nyliberalismen har mutert. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Norsk motvekst. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Review of Alpa Shah (2018) Nightmarch: among India’s revolutionary guerrillas. Contemporary South Asia. ISSN 0958-4935. doi: 10.1080/09584935.2021.1884371.
• Singh Pannu, Bikramdeep; Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Et opprør på rullende hjul. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Jawaharlal Nehru. I Bolstad, Erik (Red.), Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2020). Store norske leksikon AS . ISSN 0000000000000.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). The Global Police State and the Rural World. Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Jakobsen, Jostein & Nilsen, Alf Gunvald (2020). Liberalising Indian Agriculture. Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Hansen, Arve & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). COVID-19 and the Asian meat complex. East Asia Forum.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Review of Andrew Flachs (2019) Cultivating Knowledge: Biotechnology, Sustainability and the Human Cost of Cotton Capitalism in India. Journal of Agrarian Change. ISSN 1471-0358. doi: 10.1111/joac.12386.
• Aguilar-Støen, Mariel & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Forholdet mellom kjøttproduksjon og pandemier er sammensatt. Bondebladet. ISSN 0332-8414.
• Aguilar-Støen, Mariel & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Høy pris for billig kjøtt. Klassekampen. ISSN 0805-3839.
• Aguilar-Støen, Mariel & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Producing Food, Producing Zoonosis: The Political Ecology of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Tvergastein. ISSN 1893-5605.
• Dunlap, Alexander & Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). Unraveling the Lies of His-story with James Scott and Peter Gelderloos. Capitalism Nature Socialism. ISSN 1045-5752. doi: 10.1080/10455752.2020.1735029.
• Hansen, Arve & Jakobsen, Jostein (2019). Geographies of Asian Meatification . Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2019). Er Foucaults biopolitikk død? Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2019). Farmers, Subalterns, and Activists: Social Politics of Sustainable Agriculture in India, by Trent Brown. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2018. Pp. xii+202. £75. ISBN 978‐1‐108‐42510‐0. Journal of Agrarian Change. ISSN 1471-0358. doi: 10.1111/joac.12342.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2018). Food regimes as mundane: a view from southern India’s maize frontier.
• Hansen, Arve & Jakobsen, Jostein (2018). Geographies of Meatification: An Emerging Asian Meat Complex?
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2018). Akademisk arbeid er ingen gave. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2018). Världens största demokrati i praktiken. I Lindberg, Staffan & Eklund, Lars (Red.), Miraklet Indien och dess baksida. Palmkrons förlag. ISSN 978-91-88785-00-8. s. 91–121.
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Jakobsen, Jostein; Hansen, Arve & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2017). Kvalitetssikring, ikke begrensning av debatt. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Jakobsen, Jostein; Hansen, Arve & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2017). Flau formidling om kolonialisme og sensur. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.). ISSN 0804-3116.
• Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn; Jakobsen, Jostein; Hansen, Arve & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2017). Redelighet, ikke sensur. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Bondeselvmord og klimaendringer. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Arundhati Roy og mobben. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Kuas justis. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). En mors død. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Fidel's hug. Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Hvem er den indiske bonden? Rødt!. ISSN 1504-4777. 2016(4), s. 116–121.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Da Fidel klemte Indira. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Valuta. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Kommunistene til makta i Kerala. Fokus India.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Skatt. FokusIndia.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Kontroversiell sennep. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Den siste tiger. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). The red road ahead. Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Kommunistenes vei videre. FokusIndia.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Fra maoister til økobønder: Noen tanker om regionalkunnskap og (forsinket) erkjennelse.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Yogajordbruk. Fokus India.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Russians: The new hippies? Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Storfekjøtt til besvær. Matlære.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Violence as political practice. Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Krise og nyliberalisme i indisk jordbruk. RadikalPortal.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Russerne: de nye hippier? Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). How does agrarian crisis impact Indian farmers?
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Voldens politikk. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Revolusjon i India: drøm og virkelighet.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Maoistene i India. RadikalPortal.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir; Jensenius, Francesca & Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Truende Maoister. Ny Tid. ISSN 0809-9049. 62(17).
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). India in the Contemporary Food Regime: The State, Struggles and Uneven Integration. Oslo 07-Media. Vis sammendrag

  This article-based thesis brings India into ongoing debates surrounding food regime analysis. Examining India’s integration in the contemporary food regime across scales from the regional, through the national to the local, the thesis aims at critically advancing the approach of food regime analysis and, simultaneously, our understanding of agrarian change in India. A key finding in this thesis is that India’s integration in the contemporary food regime is characterised by uneven tendencies. Partial, gradual and incomplete integration is evidenced throughout the thesis, leading to the central argument that corporate food regime dynamics are emerging in India today amidst struggle and contentions where the agency of the state is crucial and where patterns of accumulation are interwoven with nature. Drawing on analytics in the tradition of Antonio Gramsci, the thesis takes steps towards a conjunctural food regime analysis that is attentive to historical-geographical specificities, while seeking to avoid pitfalls of ‘global’ orientation and ‘capital-logic’. The first three articles are ‘desk studies’ focusing on regional and national scales. The first, co-authored, article locates India in the Asian region in relation to the formation of the increasingly polycentric contemporary food regime, looking specifically at the role of an emerging ‘meat complex’. The second article zooms in on the national scale and interrogates the role of the state and neoliberalisation in the contemporary food regime in view of contestations over recent right-to-food legislation in India. The third article explores popular mobilisation against food regime crises through an inquiry into rural India’s ongoing agrarian crisis. The fourth and final article is based on fieldwork and descends to the local village scale to explore how crops and regions are integrated in the contemporary food regime by tracing booming maize cultivation in rural Karnataka.

• Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Vicissitudes of Revolution: Maoist Conflict in Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, India, 1990-2007. Universitetet i Oslo.

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