Resurgency by Kali Rubaii
Resurgency examines how Iraqi farmers outlast the long shadow of US military intervention as they return to repair their war-damaged homeland. Based on detailed ethnographic research, Kali Rubaii expands the temporal and descriptive definitions of war, displacement, and resistance.In Resurgency, Kali Rubaii offers detailed ethnographic insight into how decades of war have affected everyday life in Iraq. Drawing on fieldwork in Anbar province and Iraqi Kurdistan in 2014–15 and 2021–24, Rubaii foregrounds the practices of displaced people who stubbornly outlast their occupiers, returning to homes that feel estranging, repairing war-damaged land, and surviving into futures to which they have been disinvited. Following Anbari farmers in their struggle to counter the social and environmental fallout from toxic military waste, depleted ecosystems, and transformed political economies, Resurgency expands the temporal and descriptive categories of what war is—and what resistance looks like. By asking what actions and dispositions make sense when conditions of survival are diminished, and when today may be better than tomorrow, Rubaii offers new methods and insights to those concerned about the possibilities of life amid environmental devastation, mass displacement, and the slow violence of the forever wars.
“Resurgency tells a story that cries out to be heardRubaii’s warm and engaging narrative voice alongside her eye for horrifying and humanizing details make this not only a courageous ethnography and an important contribution to anthropological theory, but also a vital offering to public culture and democratic debate. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Middle East.”—Hugh Gusterson co-editor of, Militarization: A Reader
“A remarkable ethnography. Kali Rubaii sheds light on the protracted impacts of war and occupation on the peoples, livelihoods, landscapes, and plants and other non-human species in Iraq—and, by implication, the world over. This important, timely, and richly evocative book offers distinctive concepts and framings that will surely be adopted by other anthropologists writing about genocide, ecocide, and corporate plunder.”—Nathalie Peutz, New York University-Abu Dhabi
“A remarkable ethnography. Kali Rubaii sheds light on the protracted impacts of war and occupation on the peoples, livelihoods, landscapes, and plants and other non-human species in Iraq—and, by implication, the world over. This important, timely, and richly evocative book offers distinctive concepts and framings that will surely be adopted by other anthropologists writing about genocide, ecocide, and corporate plunder.”—Nathalie Peutz, New York University-Abu Dhabi
Kali Rubaii is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Purdue University and co-editor of The Social Properties of Concrete.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781478038726 |
| Title | Resurgency |
| Author | Kali Rubaii |
| Series | Global Insecurities |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Duke University Press |
| Year published | 2026-07-07 |
| Number of pages | 312 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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