Suchergebnisse

"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"--

The 1947-9 war -- A nation-in-arms 1949-67 -- The six bad years in 1967-73 -- War and peace 1973-9 -- War in Lebanon 1982 -- Intifada 1987-93 -- The Al-Aqsa intifada 2000-5 -- The Second Lebanon War 2006 -- Conclusions

Papers based on an international workshop "Conflict and Coexistence in Lebanon" held in Bergen, 23rd-24th September, 2010

War-normalizing discourse (WND) -- A cultural approach to critical discourse analysis (CCDA) -- War-normalizing naming: from Operation Peace for the Galilee to operation Cast Lead -- War-normalizing framing: wounded soldiers on Israeli television during the second Lebanon war -- War-normalizing metaphors in the context of the second Lebanon war -- War-normalizing silencing: the Israeli cultural code of captivity -- War-normalizing legislation: the law of decorations -- WND and anti-WND 1967-1973 -- Conclusions: how WND led to the Yom Kippur War