{"title":"War, from the South","authors":"Munira Khayyat","doi":"10.1215/08992363-10202430","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n In South Lebanon, like other places across the Global South, war is experienced as an enduring condition that makes worlds even as it destroys them—worlds that continue to be lively, if also deadly. What theory of war might be adequate to these worlds? This essay shifts the terrain and the terms in which war is grasped by sourcing a theory of war from a resistantly inhabited battlefield of the Global South. Placing war alongside other more normalized sites of modern violence this essay seeks to decolonize theories of war and to bring to light vitalizing ecologies of practice that underwrite resistant life in deadly quarters.","PeriodicalId":47901,"journal":{"name":"Public Culture","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Public Culture","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1215/08992363-10202430","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"ANTHROPOLOGY","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In South Lebanon, like other places across the Global South, war is experienced as an enduring condition that makes worlds even as it destroys them—worlds that continue to be lively, if also deadly. What theory of war might be adequate to these worlds? This essay shifts the terrain and the terms in which war is grasped by sourcing a theory of war from a resistantly inhabited battlefield of the Global South. Placing war alongside other more normalized sites of modern violence this essay seeks to decolonize theories of war and to bring to light vitalizing ecologies of practice that underwrite resistant life in deadly quarters.
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Public Culture is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of cultural studies, published three times a year—in January, May, and September. It is sponsored by the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU. A four-time CELJ award winner, Public Culture has been publishing field-defining ethnographies and analyses of the cultural politics of globalization for over thirty years. The journal provides a forum for the discussion of the places and occasions where cultural, social, and political differences emerge as public phenomena, manifested in everything from highly particular and localized events in popular or folk culture to global advertising, consumption, and information networks. Artists, activists, and scholars, both well-established and younger, from across the humanities and social sciences and around the world, present some of their most innovative and exciting work in the pages of Public Culture.