The Fire Will Never Cease: Defiant Ecologies in South Lebanon
Talk by Munira Khayyat, New York University.
Scorched earth, blackened skies, poisoned waters and fires everywhere. This talk shares urgent truths from the grounds of resistant being amidst ceaseless wars in South Lebanon. Here, rooted communities defiantly confront seasonal military assaults by imperial and settler-colonial war-machines as the intentional destruction of life. War is lived across decades as repeated environmental devastation upon the land, its dwellers and keepers, who confront methodical annihilation and enduring occupation through defiant acts of return and repair. Speaking from the shattered grounds of the present amidst the immediacy of ongoing wars and so-called ceasefires, this talk brings to light the multi-species ecologies that resist and survive endless seasons of scorched-earth devastation in South Lebanon.
After the talk, there will be a small reception.
Bio
Munira Khayyat is Professor of Anthropology at New York University, Abu Dhabi, and author of ‘A Landscape of War – Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon’ (2022).