A landscape of war : ecologies of resistance and survival in South Lebanon

Khayyat, Munira 1976- (author.).

Summary: "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 survival collectives make life possible in an insistently deadly region. Sourcing a theory 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"--

Record details

ISBN: 9780520389991
ISBN: 9780520389984
ISBN: 9780520390003
ISBN: 0520390008
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 258 pages) : illustrations
remote
Computer data.
Publisher: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Content descriptions

General Note:	CatMonthString:december.23 Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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 Nature's Resistance -- 6 The Gray Zone -- Conclusion: life as war -- Coda: a marriage in Galilee -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 22, 2022).