Resurgency

"This powerful, harrowing, beautiful ethnography might be one of the most consequential scholarly books written this year, even this decade. As one of Rubaii’s Iraqi interlocutors tell us at the outset: 'Don’t be naïve: we are your future.' This book is both a faithful tribune for a people subjected to punishing forever wars initiated by the US, and an admonition about a bleak future that awaits us all, unless we move, now." - Laleh Khalili, author of Extractive Capitalism: How Commodities and Cronyism Shape the Global Economy

“Resurgency tells a story that cries out to be heard. Rubaii’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