Kali Rubaii
Dr. Rubaii is an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at Purdue University, interested in sharpening resistance strategies that target the vulnerable nexus between coercive power and the physical world.
Her research explores the environmental impacts of less-than-lethal militarism, and how military projects (re)arrange political ecologies in the name of “letting live.” Her book project, Counter-resurgency, examines how farmers in Anbar, Iraq struggle to survive and recover from transnational counterinsurgency projects.
She is currently conducting fieldwork for two ethnographic projects: Taking toxicity as an analytic for material politics, she is working with a team of doctors, epidemiologists, and environmental activists to document the links between the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah and military environmental damage. She is also researching the corporate-military enterprise of concrete production in post-invasion Iraq and how it enforces global regimes of class and citizenship.
Her research explores the environmental impacts of less-than-lethal militarism, and how military projects (re)arrange political ecologies in the name of “letting live.” Her book project, Counter-resurgency, examines how farmers in Anbar, Iraq struggle to survive and recover from transnational counterinsurgency projects.
She is currently conducting fieldwork for two ethnographic projects: Taking toxicity as an analytic for material politics, she is working with a team of doctors, epidemiologists, and environmental activists to document the links between the epidemic of birth defects in Fallujah and military environmental damage. She is also researching the corporate-military enterprise of concrete production in post-invasion Iraq and how it enforces global regimes of class and citizenship.
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it sustains) is doubly destructive. While part of this is recognized in a recent focus on slow violence and
ecological aftermaths, there is little consideration of the ‘beforemath’, or the sites of extraction that make
advanced military technologies possible. Drawing attention to mining in the Democratic Republic of the
Congo (DRC), the article connects military technologies to arms manufacturers and their use of extracted
minerals (e.g. cobalt, tantalum, copper, uranium). Shared patterns of environmental and public health
effects across parts of Iraq, Gaza and the DRC indicate the doubly destructive nature of late modern war’s
relationship with the geos: toxic materials threaten life after war as the deposits of bombardment and before
war as mineral commodities at the beginning of arms supply chains. The article explicates how a perspective
from the beforemath radically refigures the ways we think about war and spatiality, temporality, and the
range of bodies affected in ways that promise a fuller understanding of the violence distributed by practices
of late modern war.
Here is a general introduction to the components critical thinking. Each item should be its own chapter. For the most part we are working on the very first item in my classes. I hope it is useful.
Part 1: What Are You Doing When You Write?
Part 2: Blueprints
Part 3: Drafting and Revising
Part 4: Writing Habits That Worked for Me
I argue that while the “urbicide” of Palestinian cities is an iconic form of Israeli occupation, simultaneous projects of urbanization in rural Palestine reveal a complex interplay between settler occupation and neoliberal normative perceptions of what people and places can be planned for or planned. Spatial politics is not only about space, but also about how visions are conjured, imagined, and materialized, and by whom.