Jostein Jakobsen

• 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 Vis sammendrag

  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 agricultural development. This article reviews recent scholarship in food regime analysis to bring out central aspects of such advancement. In particular, this review discusses three key aspects of recent food regime scholarship: First, I find an increased problematizing of spatiality and scale with calls for downscaling the food regime approach. Second, I find a rising centrality of theorizing and analyzing the state. Third, despite these advancements, an important gap remains in sustained attention to questions of labor. I call for further scrutiny of labor in order to bring food regime analysis forwards.

• 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 Vis sammendrag

  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 resilience, but also facilitated state and capital entanglement in the global agro-food system. This imperial maize assemblage is set on expansion, but it will continue to meet resistance in coevolved peasant-maize alliances.

• 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 (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. Vis sammendrag

  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 processes “from above” pushing the industrial grain–oilseed–complex forward and processes “from below” that integrate maize in everyday livelihoods. Focusing on how villagers make use of maize in ways that cross, but simultaneously are differentiated along, lines of class and caste, this article seeks to contribute to our understanding of the everyday dynamics of contemporary food regime.

• 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 (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. Vis sammendrag

  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 emerging interest in critical agrarian studies to transcend dichotomous views of consent and coercion. We illustrate this argument with select empirical cases from India, focusing in particular on adverse incorporation in corporate agriculture in rural Karnataka.

• 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. Vis sammendrag

  This article develops an initial framework for a Gramscian and political ecological food regime analysis of India’s ongoing agrarian crisis. Criticizing readings of Polanyi in food regime analysis in light of Gramscian perspectives, I seek to contest food regime analysis’s approach to counter-movements. I suggest, further, that close attention to the Indian case of ‘actually existing crises’ helps us avoid some of the capital-centric limitations in food regime literature. Working towards an incipient understanding of the absence of a sustained smallholder counter-movement at the current conjuncture in India, I argue for locating our investigation at the intersection of crises of accumulation and of legitimation. I analyze India’s decentralized form of petrofarming as a socioecological cycle of accumulation that is presently facing a condition of exhaustion of Cheap Nature. Drawing on Gramscian perespectives, I argue that an analytics that foregrounds the dynamics of class forces in the integral state can help us rethinking the possibilities for resistance to the contemporary food regime more broadly.

• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Inside and Outside the State: Imagining the Indian State among Subalternists and Naxalites, In Pradip Basu (ed.),  Naxalite Politics: Post-structuralist, Postcolonial and Subaltern Perspectives.  Setu Prakashani.  ISBN 978-93-80677-23-1.  Chapter 16.  s 283 - 298
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Disappearing Landlords and the Unmaking of Revolution: Maoist Mobilization, the State and Agrarian Change in Northern Telangana, In Alf Gunvald Nilsen & Kenneth Bo Nielsen (ed.),  Social Movements and the State in India: Deepening Democracy?.  Palgrave Macmillan.  ISBN 978-1-137-59132-6.  Chapter 11.  s 239 - 267

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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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• Aguilar-Støen, Mariel & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Prisen for å produsere billig mat. Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Gramsci i vår tid. Salongen – nettidsskrift for filosofi og idéhistorie.  ISSN 2703-7053.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Kapitalisme, pandemier og industrielt landbruk.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Narendra Modi, I: Erik Bolstad (red.),  Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2021).  Store norske leksikon.  ISBN 0000000000000.  Leksikonartikkel.
• 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: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09584935.2021.1884371
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Aguilar-Støen, Mariel (2021). Avskogingspandemien. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Narendra Modi, krisenes mann. Transit magasin.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Narendra Modi's authoritarian neoliberalism. Terra Nullius: Repossessing the Existent.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Nyliberalismen har mutert. morgenbladet.no.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Akademisk frihet under press i India. Uniforum.  ISSN 1891-5825.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Diplomati og nasjonalisme i en vaksinetid. Transit magasin.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2021). Dype riper i Modis teflon. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
• Singh Pannu, Bikramdeep; Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2021). Et opprør på rullende hjul. Klassekampen.  ISSN 0805-3839.
• 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 (2020). COVID-19 and the Asian meat complex. East Asia Forum.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2020). India in the Contemporary Food Regime: The State, Struggles and Uneven Integration. 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 (2020). Jawaharlal Nehru, I: Erik Bolstad (red.),  Store norske leksikon (snl.no 2020).  Store norske leksikon AS.  ISBN 0000000000000.  Leksikonartikkel.
• 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: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joac.12386
• 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 (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
• 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 (2018). Food regimes as mundane: a view from southern India’s maize frontier.
• Jakobsen, Jostein; Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Nilsen, Alf Gunvald & Vaidya, Anand (2018). Världens största demokrati i praktiken, I: Staffan Lindberg & Lars Eklund (red.),  Miraklet Indien och dess baksida.  Palmkrons förlag.  ISBN 978-91-88785-00-8.  4.  s 91 - 121
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Arundhati Roy og mobben. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Bondeselvmord og klimaendringer. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2017). Kuas justis. Fokus India.
• 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). Kvalitetssikring, ikke begrensning av debatt. 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 (2016). Da Fidel klemte Indira. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Den siste tiger. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Fidel's hug. Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Kommunistene til makta i Kerala. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Kommunistenes vei videre. FokusIndia.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Kontroversiell sennep. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). The red road ahead. Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Valuta. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). En mors død. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2016). Hvem er den indiske bonden?. Rødt!.  ISSN 1504-4777.  2016(4), s 116- 121
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2016). Skatt. FokusIndia.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Fra maoister til økobønder: Noen tanker om regionalkunnskap og (forsinket) erkjennelse.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). How does agrarian crisis impact Indian farmers?.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Krise og nyliberalisme i indisk jordbruk. RadikalPortal.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Storfekjøtt til besvær. Matlære.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Violence as political practice. Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Voldens politikk. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Yogajordbruk. Fokus India.
• Jakobsen, Jostein & Nielsen, Kenneth Bo (2015). Russerne: de nye hippier?. Fokus India.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo & Jakobsen, Jostein (2015). Russians: The new hippies?. Dhaka Tribune.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Maoistene i India. RadikalPortal.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Revolusjon i India: drøm og virkelighet.
• Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Vicissitudes of Revolution: Maoist Conflict in Andhra Pradesh and Chhattisgarh, India, 1990-2007.
• Nielsen, Kenneth Bo; Flåten, Lars Tore; Heierstad, Geir; Jensenius, Francesca & Jakobsen, Jostein (2014). Truende Maoister. Ny Tid.  ISSN 0809-9049.  62(17)

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