Landscape of War

Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon

AvMunira Khayyat

Inbunden, Engelska, 2022

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Beskrivning

What worlds take root in war? In this book, anthropologist Munira Khayyat describes life along the southern border of Lebanon, where resistant ecologies thrive amid a terrain of perennial war. A Landscape of War takes us to frontline villages where armed invasions, indiscriminate bombings, and scattered land mines have become the environment where everyday life is waged. This book dwells with multispecies partnerships such as tobacco farming and goatherding that carry life through seasons of destruction. Neither green-tinged utopia nor total devastation, these ecologies make life possible in an insistently deadly region. Sourcing an anthropology of war from where it is lived, this book decolonizes distant theories of war and brings to light creative practices forged in the midst of ongoing devastation. In lyrical prose that resonates with imperiled conditions across the Global South, Khayyat paints a portrait of war as a place where life must go on.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2022-11-22
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:499 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:286
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520389984

Utforska kategorier

Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Militärhistoria inom Historia och arkeologi
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Munira Khayyat teaches Anthropology at the American University in Cairo.

Recensioner i media

"The staying power of this book is how it models a way to think outside accumulated disasters as discrete events, how to use ethnography to render life under a constant state of precarity and violence. Khayyat’s approach, ethnographic sensitivity, and relentless focus on “living with” rather than “living despite” scale up and apply broadly to accumulated crisis in both other locales and on a planetary scale."

Innehållsförteckning

ContentsList of IllustrationsPrelude: Warlight Acknowledgments Note on Language and the TextIntroduction: War, from the South1. A Brief History of War in South Lebanon2. Battle/field3. The Bitter Crop4. How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape 5. Maskun, or Nature’s Resistance 6. The Gray ZoneConclusion: Life as War Coda: A Marriage in GalileeNotesBibliographyIndex