This commentary analyzes Stuart Elden’s contributions to a theory of terrain and proposes to further politicize them through a bodily, materialist, and non-anthropocentric examination of the severity of the climate crisis and of the ways in which grassroots movements struggling for radical change are empowered by their engagement with terrain. In particular, I argue in dialogue with Elden that this perspective requires an affective and non-Eurocentric examination of ‘the power of terrain’: that is, the irreducible capacity of the terrain of planet Earth, on the one hand, to severely disrupt human places and territories amid global warming and, on the other, to facilitate collective mobilizations for social, climate, gender, and racial justice.

这篇评论文章分析了斯图尔特·埃尔登（Stuart Elden）对地形理论的贡献，并建议通过对气候危机的严重性以及为实现根本性变化而努力的基层运动所赋予的力量进行身体，唯物主义和非人类中心的研究，进一步将其政治化他们对地形的参与。特别是，我在与艾尔登（Elden）的对话中辩称，这种观点需要对“地形的力量”进行情感和非欧洲中心的考察：也就是说，一方面，地球地形的不可还原的能力严重破坏了人类的生存能力。在全球变暖的背景下发展地区和领土，另一方面，促进社会，气候，性别和种族正义方面的集体动员。