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Elemental Commons: Pyropolitics and the Governance of the Flammable
This panel discussion explores pyropolitics as a critical lens for understanding how the management and manifestation of fire shape contemporary sovereign power and social space. As ‘we’ unevenly navigate the "Pyrocene," the panel seeks to theorise fire not merely as a geophysical hazard, but as a fundamental logic of territorial control, colonialism, and struggle in a heating world. Through diverse geographical scales, we aim to map how flames can both exert power and make possible resistance.
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The panel discussion is organised by the Geographies of Life Research Cluster and Elemental Kinships Thematic Group. Presenters include:
Dr Kapil Yadav, Department of Geography, Kings College London
Title: The Fiction of Disaster: How Forest Fires Shape State-Making in the Indian Himalaya
Dr Sherena Razek, Department of Gender Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
Title: A Potential History of Fire in Palestine
Dr Andrés Luque-Ayala and Dr Marijn Nieuwenhuis, Department of Geography, Durham University
Title: Cities on fire: Towards an elemental urbanism in the Anthropocene