By tracing specific moments in the history of the more-than-human landscape constituting the food geography of western Avadh, a long settled agricultural heartland in the Indo-Gangetic plains, this paper challenges the neat formulations of the Anthropocene laying out decisive global impacts of humans on the environment. Building upon the concept of the ‘patchy Anthropocene’, we show how outcomes are shaped by an imbrication of humans and non-humans—where powerful human actors seek to coerce people and corral the environment into their projects of remaking the landscape, but also where recalcitrant ecologies and resistant people thwart these intentions, especially during the colonial encounter. Contestations across power hierarchies and unintended outcomes litter the wake of the Anthropocene — as we show, efforts to save the non-human cow in the last decade have intensified processes associated with the Great Acceleration. Instead of treating the trajectory of food geographies like western Avadh as outliers and marginal to the normative process of defining change, we argue for treating it as constitutive of the norm. Only through such a process of decolonisation, by ‘provincialising the Anthropocene’, can we hope to push for epistemic justice, ecological sustainability and a more equitable world.

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构成规范：在印度阿瓦德西部的超人类世界中通过食物地理来审问人类世

通过追溯构成印度-恒河平原长期定居农业中心地带阿瓦德西部食物地理的非人类景观历史中的特定时刻，本文挑战了人类世的简洁表述，列出了决定性的全球影响人类对环境。基于“斑驳的人类世”的概念，我们展示了人类和非人类的重叠如何塑造结果——强大的人类行为者试图强迫人们将环境纳入他们重建景观的项目中，但也顽固的生态环境和抗拒的人们阻碍了这些意图，尤其是在殖民遭遇期间。正如我们所展示的那样，跨越权力等级的竞争和意想不到的结果散布在人类世的尾声中，过去十年拯救非人类奶牛的努力加强了与大加速相关的过程。我们没有将像阿瓦德西部这样的食品地理轨迹视为异常值和边缘于定义变化的规范过程，而是主张将其视为规范的组成部分。只有通过这样一个非殖民化的过程，通过“人类世的地方化”，我们才能希望推动认知正义、生态可持续性和更公平的世界。