After the End of the World: Another Season of War in South Lebanon
When:
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Venue:
Birkbeck 28 Russell Square
Tuesday 13th May, 5.00pm
Dreyfus Room*, 26-28 Russell Square, London, WC1B 5DQ
Book here (AftertheEndoftheWorld.eventbrite.co.uk)
The end of the world is nothing new for many inhabitants of the Global South, and South Lebanon has just lived through another end of the world. This talk insistently speaks from the spacetime of devastation, after the end of the world, and describes resistant ecologies that have taken root through generations of military destruction in this landscape of war. In this apocalyptic moment, and with the Lebanese military resistance in momentary abeyance, the inhabitants of Lebanese frontline villages continue to resist occupation and annihilation through ordinary acts of living. When life is the intentional target of the settler-colonial war machine, life in all of its forms becomes resistance.
Munira Khayyat is an anthropologist whose research revolves around life in war, intimate genealogies of empire, and theory from the South. Her first book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (University of California Press 2022) examines resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living. Munira is a Visiting Professor at New York University
For information contact Katy (k.pettit@bbk.ac.uk)
*The Dreyfus Room is on the second floor, with no lift. Please contact Katy with any access enquiries.
Contact name:
Katy Pettit