Political forests
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Why Fire Suppression Persists: Territorial Politics and the Criminalisation of Fire in India’s Political Forests
CASAS’ member Kapil Yadav has published this article with Emma Tebbs & Kate Schreckenberg in Antipode. Abstract: Why does fire suppression remain central to forest governance globally, despite the increasing recognition of fire’s ecological and livelihood significance? This study examines the persistence of fire suppression in India, arguing that it continues not for ecological reasons…
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The fiction of disaster: Forest fires and state-making in the Indian Himalaya
CASAS’ member Kapil Yadav has published this paper in Political Geography. Abstract: Recurrent disasters such as wildfires are increasingly attributed to anthropogenic climate change, but this broad explanation often obscures the political choices that shape how disasters are recognised, governed, and instrumentalised. Focusing on the Uttarakhand Himalaya in India, where forest fires have become a…