A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon by Mun

Description: A Landscape of War by Munira Khayyat 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. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Flap "This book is an original and engaging ethnography of life in a war zone conceived as an entanglement of worlds formed around tobacco, land mines, nature, and borders. The authors social and affective enmeshment in the field makes for a particularly well-written and gripping text."--Ghassan Hage, author of The Diasporic Condition: Ethnographic Explorations of the Lebanese in the World "Eloquently written, beautifully evocative of the mundane and the extraordinary forms of violence, endurance, and liveliness in the southern villages of Lebanon, Munira Khayyats book is an invaluable ethnography of survival in the gray zone of a more-than-human landscape that has seen decades of war and occupation. This book provides a highly original and critically important contribution to anthropological literatures on Lebanon and on studies of war and conflict, memory and space, and life under occupation."--Joanne Randa Nucho, author of Everyday Sectarianism in Urban Lebanon: Infrastructures, Public Services, and Power Author Biography Munira Khayyat teaches Anthropology at the American University in Cairo. Table of Contents Contents List of Illustrations Prelude: Warlight Acknowledgments Note on Language and the Text Introduction: War, from the South 1. A Brief History of War in South Lebanon 2. Battle/field 3. The Bitter Crop 4. How to Live (and Die) in an Explosive Landscape 5. Maskun, or Natures Resistance 6. The Gray Zone Conclusion: Life as War Coda: A Marriage in Galilee Notes Bibliography Index Review "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. Khayyats 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." * International Journal of Middle East Studies *"A Landscape of War is a rich and daring ethnography. Ethically and politically committed to honoring the terms through which her interlocutors understand their vital and lethal environments, Khayyat conceptualizes war as a place of life and reclaims resistance as political action, highlighting its ordinary and relational nature. . . . a powerful and necessary meditation on the domesticity of war: war as something that is managed and that can be (to a certain extent) tamed, as well as a space that is inhabited, that bitterly becomes home." * Current Anthropology *"A Landscape of War is a rich ecological and historical study that also blends into the text the emotional imaginary of Munira Khayyat. It would be of interest to scholars and graduate students of anthropology, history, and war, sectarian, and cultural studies." * Arab Studies Quarterly * Details ISBN0520389980 Author Munira Khayyat Short Title A Landscape of War Publisher University of California Press Language English Year 2022 ISBN-10 0520389980 ISBN-13 9780520389984 Format Hardcover Subtitle Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon Imprint University of California Press Place of Publication Berkerley Country of Publication United States Publication Date 2022-11-22 AU Release Date 2022-11-22 NZ Release Date 2022-11-22 US Release Date 2022-11-22 UK Release Date 2022-11-22 Illustrations 25 b-w illustrations Pages 286 DEWEY 306.095692 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159523859;

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