Haunted Geographies of War and Disaster: Embodied Geographies of Remains and the Feminist Political Ecology of Memory

ABSTRACT This article develops the concept of an embodied geography of remains to examine how landscapes scarred by war, industry, and technoscience continue to act upon human and more‐than‐human life. Drawing on Black feminist geography and Asian feminist political ecology, it explores how toxic residues, spectral presences, and living bodies form co‐constituted archives of harm, care, and resistance. Through three case studies—the afterlives of Agent Orange in Vietnam, the Bhopal gas disaster, and the Fukushima nuclear crisis—the paper traces how women's everyday practices of caregiving, ritual, and citizen science generate embodied knowledge that challenges colonial and technocratic narratives. It argues that environmental justice is inseparable from acts of remembering and repair, as both land and body bear the traces of historical violence. Ultimately, the article calls for a feminist political ecology of memory—one attentive to the endurance of life within haunted landscapes.