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The increased reliance on remote warfare by US-led military coalitions presents us with questions of “what war is” and “how to know about war” in the 21^st century. In this article we substantiate calls for an embodied epistemology of war by introducing a transdisciplinary research agenda to investigate the temporal and spatial civilian harm effects of late modern warfare. Through on-the-ground research, we empirically illustrate how a US-led bombing campaign against the ISIS-held city of Hawija, Iraq, did not merely provoke harm instantly; its impact reverberates and compounds. This approach enables us to advance a de-militarised ontology of war, which highlights how remote warfare is essentially centred on multiple ways of “undoing”: not merely the undoing of bodily and material life, but also the undoing of the human ability to seek redress and speak back. With this we—however briefly—open debates on lines of responsibility and political accountability.

The increased reliance on remote warfare by US-led military coalitions presents us with questions of “what war is” and “how to know about war” in the 21^st century. In this article we substantiate calls for an embodied epistemology of war by introducing a transdisciplinary research agenda to investigate the temporal and spatial civilian harm effects of late modern warfare. Through on-the-ground research, we empirically illustrate how a US-led bombing campaign against the ISIS-held city of Hawija, Iraq, did not merely provoke harm instantly; its impact reverberates and compounds. This approach enables us to advance a de-militarised ontology of war, which highlights how remote warfare is essentially centred on multiple ways of “undoing”: not merely the undoing of bodily and material life, but also the undoing of the human ability to seek redress and speak back. With this we—however briefly—open debates on lines of responsibility and political accountability.

For decades, agro-industrial capital has adopted cascading chemical and biotechnical interventions, or fixes, to secure accumulation through the cultivation of monocrops. We develop a framework that centres on how monocrop-induced susceptibility to pests and pathogens—and the patchwork of fixes to address these—produces uneven chemical geographies. These uneven geographies are not produced by capital alone, but rather they are co-constituted through social struggles over working conditions, chemical exposures and land. Our framework is developed in dialogue with the aspirations and obstacles faced by parcelerxs, worker-peasant farmers, to forge livelihoods in former plantation lands in the southern Pacific region of Costa Rica. We identify three intersecting challenges: contemporary low-cost pesticide commercialisation, pathogen and chemical inheritances, and subjective attachments to pesticide use, or the “pesticide chip”. The possibility for less chemicalised futures thus relies upon a combined strategy that addresses the material and institutional legacies of monocrop plantations and related subjectivities.

While grounds form the physical foundation of states, their particular qualities are often overlooked in studies of state power. This article explores how the Russian state integrates permafrost—ground that remains frozen for at least two consecutive years—into its extractive ambitions amid accelerating climate change. Covering nearly 65% of Russia's territory, permafrost regions are central to the country's oil, gas, coal and non-ferrous metal industries. However, rising temperatures are causing rapid permafrost thaw. Following the 2020 Norilsk diesel spill—one of Russia's most severe environmental disasters—the state established its first unified, state-sponsored permafrost monitoring system. Based on interviews with scientists, engineers and state officials, alongside archival research and discourse analysis, this study traces the development of this permafrost monitoring system and reveals how thawing permafrost—once regarded as stable and “eternal”—is now framed as particularly unstable and requiring enhanced state control. Building on insights from the “subterranean turn” in geography, I argue that permafrost's instability unsettles state imaginaries premised on solid ground and reveals the material limits of state power. The article situates these dynamics within Russia's imperial history, demonstrating how frozen earth both supports and constrains state power.

This paper examines corporate LGBTQ+ activism and the productive incorporation of queers into capitalism in Brazil. Mobilising transnational queer materialist critiques in tandem with critical perspectives from teoria do cu, the paper sheds light on how homonormativity operates not simply as a set of cultural norms or representational tropes, but as a structural and ideological formation that integrates queer inclusion into global circuits of capitalist accumulation while obscuring the material and historical violence sustaining those circuits. The paper draws from fieldwork conducted at the Out & Equal Forum in São Paulo, exploring how corporate investments in LGBTQ+ diversity operate within wider economic geographies that differentially fold queers into global capitalism. In so doing, the paper contributes to extant debates in queer economic geography, underlining the importance of moving beyond hegemonic homonormativity critiques to grasp the complex, uneven ways in which queers are incorporated into (homo)capitalism.

This essay examines post-Katrina New Orleans to challenge overdetermining narratives of Black resistance at the expense of other modes of being, while countering portrayals reducing resistance to demands for inclusion into violent subjectivity. Drawing on trans-feminist discourses of mobility and Black feminist geographies, I examine the Katrina diaspora's practices of (im)mobility—embodying illegible gender expression or inhabiting disposable spaces—to explore the capaciousness of Black fungibility. I offer diasporic choreography to examine post-Katrina cartography alongside two oral history interviews, one in the immediate aftermath (2005–2006) and one in the long term (2022). Extending Katherine McKittrick's concept of a black sense of place as an entanglement of coloniality and resistance I foreground subtle, complex navigations Black communities make within coercive geographies. Attending to affective gestures, queer articulations of (non)belonging and shifting spatial strategies, I argue that Gulf South Black (im)mobility embodies an ontological ambivalence crucial to understanding Katrina's long-term impact on Black sociality [Correction added on 10 October 2025, after first online publication: The Abstract section has been revised in this version.].

This essay explores the interconnections between eco-aesthetics, narratives of development, and hydropolitics to better understand the twin material and narrative crises of water in Pakistan. Challenging the dominant narratives of water as external, passive, objective, and ahistorical, this essay provides a situated analysis of the co-production of water and society in Punjabi landscape to reveal the entanglements of the prevalent water crisis, environmental imaginaries, and the politics of resource distribution. It explains the simultaneous existence of water scarcity and surplus as a factor of colonial and capitalist uneven development and highlights the aesthetic and political strategies employed to appropriate water commons in Punjab. The essay also argues that the material crisis of the environment reveals the narrative crisis of modern development as control over nature and makes a case for seizing this crisis as an opportunity to reimagine social relations and human relations with nature.

This article focuses on the Network State movement as embodying the venture capital (VC) logic of exit. Exit constitutes both a strategy for lucrative returns and an ideology seeking out new territories for financial and technological speculation. This movement has emerged around Balaji Srinivasan and the technologies of Web3 that encode the imperatives of exit. In the construction of liberated zones for the Network State, VC operates through a territorial logic, under the leadership of the founder-philosopher and with the affordances of the American state. These logics evince the discursive power at the heart of the political economy of VC. The desires of the VC class shape “future social necessity” (Howard 2024; Finance and Society 10) and are “imprinted” (Cooiman 2024; Environment and Planning A 56) upon the social and technological networks of the Network State. The valorisation through exit seeks to produce “hyperstitious” (Lynch and Muñoz-Viso 2023; Progress in Human Geography 48) value creation in which VC is the fount of civilisation.

The argument advanced in this paper is that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is not simply a technology, but also an ideology that is influencing the values, beliefs, and worldviews of many people. Furthermore, this paper contends that the ideology of AI, henceforth AIdeology, has a strong spatial dimension. Through a combination of Marxian philosophy and human geography, the paper develops a critical theory of AI as an ideology and makes three main contributions. First, it identifies and discusses the core components of AIdeology: the idea of AI as a force capable of achieving a condition of sustainability; the idea of posthuman societies populated by humanlike AIs; and the idea of AI making both human labour and capitalism obsolete. Second, it critically examines the spatiality of these ideas and how the production of space supports their diffusion. Third, it sheds light on the uneven socio-environmental relations that AIdeology attempts to hide.