Kristin V Monroe
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 88954 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Kristin V Monroe |
| NOMBRES | Kristin V |
| APELLIDO | Monroe |
| FIRMA | MONROE K V |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Kentucky |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-3309-5798 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 44 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2011 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Deniz Yonucu's police, provocation, politics
Planning for the Family in Qatar
During research in Qatar with practitioners in assisted reproduction and infertility medicine, I found that across the broad range of views they expressed about their approaches to consulting with patients, there was something shared: that their work with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) entailed taking up moral and ethical positions. In this paper, I draw on interviews with medical professionals to analyse the local moral worlds which s…
Driving across the warscape
In this paper, I draw on ethnographic research with Syrian cross border taxi drivers in developing an argument about how their mobility is a crucible of the interlocking relations between the production of masculinity and political economy during wartime. I propose that thinking with the Syrian cross-border taxi driver advances our theoretical approaches to the temporality of war and the conceptualization of warscape. In so doing, I challenge the…
Masculinity, Migration, and Forced Conscription in the Syrian War
In this essay, I provide a different perspective on the Syrian conflict by examining how the war's reach can also be located amid the losses, interruptions, and experiences of those Syrians who have until now largely escaped its incredible violence. By looking closely at how the war has altered the life trajectories of and produced distinct modes of vulnerability for military-age men, I develop an argument about how, although they avoid fighting …
Geopolitics, Food Security, and Imaginings of the State in Qatar's Desert Landscape
In June 2017, a geopolitical crisis that emerged in the Arab Gulf between Qatar and several of its neighboring countries resulted in the severing of diplomatic ties and the imposition of a land, sea, and air embargo on Qatar. This article explores how the import, production, and consumption of food in Qatar came to constitute a key geopolitical axis during the first year of the crisis. Building on scholarly work that examines food as not just a p…
The Insecure City
Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent political and economic landscape. Providing a picture of what ordinary life is like for urban dwellers surviving sectarian violence, The Insecure City captures the day-to-day experiences of citizens of Beirut moving through a war-torn landscape.\nWhile living…
Moving through the contested city
As Catherine Lutz (2014) writes, anthropology has paid scant attention to the automobile, despite the fact that the ‘car-system’, as she puts it, is not only part of the creation of the modern subject but also a crucial object by which to understand the relationship between political economy and the city. This chapter is animated by an inquiry into the car-system and the kinds of social and infrastructural relations it has engendered in Beirut, L…
Tweets of surveillance
More than a decade ago, Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson set out to define a research program with their essay 'Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality' (2002). Exploring the relation between what they referred to as 'the spatial and statist orders,' they argued that conceptualizations of the nature of the state have not attended adequately to the ways in which states are spatialized and endeavored to show, through …
Circulation, modernity, and urban space in 1960s Beirut
In this essay, I explore the role of circulation in Beirut's urban space and society in the early 1960s. Drawing primarily from the Lebanese francophone newspaper L'Orient, I show how the rise of automobility in postcolonial Beirut brought with it the imposition of certain kinds of moral and civic geographies that prescribed how citizens should use and move through the city. I argue that the newspaper's narratives about matters of infrastructure …
Space, Society, and Self
Social scientists are often engaged in the project of documenting and theorizing social and political transformation. Three recent texts that focus on everyday practices and politics in the Middle East take up this endeavor, through their mapping out and analysis of historical changes in the ways that life is being lived in Beirut and Istanbul. Each work explores a cohort of urban residents that represents a generational shift in the ways in whic…
Exploring Nature, Making the Nation
This article explores how Lebanese ecotourism sites and excursions present a spatial narrative marked by aspirations for a consolidated nation that connects the rural and the urban across a diverse ecological terrain. Employing several ecotourism projects as case studies, I argue that ideas about nation-making that are rooted in embodied interaction with and awareness of the natural landscape engender a form of national territorialization that re…
Automobility and Citizenship in Interwar Lebanon
Based on newspaper resources from Lebanon’s French mandate period (1920–46), Monroe’s essay offers a new perspective to a developing global historiography of automobility by considering, in a provisional way and primarily as a basis for further research, how the driving of cars shaped everyday and national life in Lebanon in the interwar era. First, Monroe explores how the driving of cars, as a demonstration of state power, served as a tool and r…
Labor and the Urban Landscape
In this article, I investigate the embodied, class, and political relations ofSyrian delivery workers on motor scooter who forge a livelihood by moving through the space ofBeirut,Lebanon. I develop an argument about how the work lives of these delivery drivers are characterized by various conditions of insecurity. Rushing around the city, these workers face certain bodily risks, as they are physically vulnerable in vehicular traffic, but they enc…
Being Mobile in Beirut
In this essay I examine two contexts of mobility in Beirut. First, I discuss navigations of security by Beirut's residents during the 2004–2006 period of political crisis. Second, I consider how talk about driving revealed interpretations of the state, national identity, and social class that engaged, in different ways, the notion of fowda (chaos). Through these contexts of mobility, I explore how power is constituted through spatial movement. I …
Being Mobile in Beirut
In this essay I examine two contexts of mobility in Beirut. First, I discuss navigations of security by Beirut's residents during the 2004–2006 period of political crisis. Second, I consider how talk about driving revealed interpretations of the state, national identity, and social class that engaged, in different ways, the notion of fowda (chaos). Through these contexts of mobility, I explore how power is constituted through spatial movement. I …
Masculinity, Migration, and Forced Conscription in the Syrian War
In this essay, I provide a different perspective on the Syrian conflict by examining how the war's reach can also be located amid the losses, interruptions, and experiences of those Syrians who have until now largely escaped its incredible violence. By looking closely at how the war has altered the life trajectories of and produced distinct modes of vulnerability for military-age men, I develop an argument about how, although they avoid fighting …
Automobility and Citizenship in Interwar Lebanon
Based on newspaper resources from Lebanon’s French mandate period (1920–46), Monroe’s essay offers a new perspective to a developing global historiography of automobility by considering, in a provisional way and primarily as a basis for further research, how the driving of cars shaped everyday and national life in Lebanon in the interwar era. First, Monroe explores how the driving of cars, as a demonstration of state power, served as a tool and r…
Labor and the Urban Landscape
In this article, I investigate the embodied, class, and political relations ofSyrian delivery workers on motor scooter who forge a livelihood by moving through the space ofBeirut,Lebanon. I develop an argument about how the work lives of these delivery drivers are characterized by various conditions of insecurity. Rushing around the city, these workers face certain bodily risks, as they are physically vulnerable in vehicular traffic, but they enc…
Tweets of surveillance
More than a decade ago, Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson set out to define a research program with their essay 'Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality' (2002). Exploring the relation between what they referred to as 'the spatial and statist orders,' they argued that conceptualizations of the nature of the state have not attended adequately to the ways in which states are spatialized and endeavored to show, through …
Geopolitics, Food Security, and Imaginings of the State in Qatar's Desert Landscape
In June 2017, a geopolitical crisis that emerged in the Arab Gulf between Qatar and several of its neighboring countries resulted in the severing of diplomatic ties and the imposition of a land, sea, and air embargo on Qatar. This article explores how the import, production, and consumption of food in Qatar came to constitute a key geopolitical axis during the first year of the crisis. Building on scholarly work that examines food as not just a p…
Circulation, modernity, and urban space in 1960s Beirut
In this essay, I explore the role of circulation in Beirut's urban space and society in the early 1960s. Drawing primarily from the Lebanese francophone newspaper L'Orient, I show how the rise of automobility in postcolonial Beirut brought with it the imposition of certain kinds of moral and civic geographies that prescribed how citizens should use and move through the city. I argue that the newspaper's narratives about matters of infrastructure …
Planning for the Family in Qatar
During research in Qatar with practitioners in assisted reproduction and infertility medicine, I found that across the broad range of views they expressed about their approaches to consulting with patients, there was something shared: that their work with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) entailed taking up moral and ethical positions. In this paper, I draw on interviews with medical professionals to analyse the local moral worlds which s…
Being Mobile in Beirut
In this essay I examine two contexts of mobility in Beirut. First, I discuss navigations of security by Beirut's residents during the 2004–2006 period of political crisis. Second, I consider how talk about driving revealed interpretations of the state, national identity, and social class that engaged, in different ways, the notion of fowda (chaos). Through these contexts of mobility, I explore how power is constituted through spatial movement. I …
Automobility and Citizenship in Interwar Lebanon
Based on newspaper resources from Lebanon’s French mandate period (1920–46), Monroe’s essay offers a new perspective to a developing global historiography of automobility by considering, in a provisional way and primarily as a basis for further research, how the driving of cars shaped everyday and national life in Lebanon in the interwar era. First, Monroe explores how the driving of cars, as a demonstration of state power, served as a tool and r…
Labor and the Urban Landscape
In this article, I investigate the embodied, class, and political relations ofSyrian delivery workers on motor scooter who forge a livelihood by moving through the space ofBeirut,Lebanon. I develop an argument about how the work lives of these delivery drivers are characterized by various conditions of insecurity. Rushing around the city, these workers face certain bodily risks, as they are physically vulnerable in vehicular traffic, but they enc…
Space, Society, and Self
Social scientists are often engaged in the project of documenting and theorizing social and political transformation. Three recent texts that focus on everyday practices and politics in the Middle East take up this endeavor, through their mapping out and analysis of historical changes in the ways that life is being lived in Beirut and Istanbul. Each work explores a cohort of urban residents that represents a generational shift in the ways in whic…
Exploring Nature, Making the Nation
This article explores how Lebanese ecotourism sites and excursions present a spatial narrative marked by aspirations for a consolidated nation that connects the rural and the urban across a diverse ecological terrain. Employing several ecotourism projects as case studies, I argue that ideas about nation-making that are rooted in embodied interaction with and awareness of the natural landscape engender a form of national territorialization that re…
Tweets of surveillance
More than a decade ago, Akhil Gupta and James Ferguson set out to define a research program with their essay 'Spatializing States: Toward an Ethnography of Neoliberal Governmentality' (2002). Exploring the relation between what they referred to as 'the spatial and statist orders,' they argued that conceptualizations of the nature of the state have not attended adequately to the ways in which states are spatialized and endeavored to show, through …
Circulation, modernity, and urban space in 1960s Beirut
In this essay, I explore the role of circulation in Beirut's urban space and society in the early 1960s. Drawing primarily from the Lebanese francophone newspaper L'Orient, I show how the rise of automobility in postcolonial Beirut brought with it the imposition of certain kinds of moral and civic geographies that prescribed how citizens should use and move through the city. I argue that the newspaper's narratives about matters of infrastructure …
Moving through the contested city
As Catherine Lutz (2014) writes, anthropology has paid scant attention to the automobile, despite the fact that the ‘car-system’, as she puts it, is not only part of the creation of the modern subject but also a crucial object by which to understand the relationship between political economy and the city. This chapter is animated by an inquiry into the car-system and the kinds of social and infrastructural relations it has engendered in Beirut, L…
The Insecure City
Fifteen years after the end of a protracted civil and regional war, Beirut broke out in violence once again, forcing residents to contend with many forms of insecurity, amid an often violent political and economic landscape. Providing a picture of what ordinary life is like for urban dwellers surviving sectarian violence, The Insecure City captures the day-to-day experiences of citizens of Beirut moving through a war-torn landscape.\nWhile living…
Masculinity, Migration, and Forced Conscription in the Syrian War
In this essay, I provide a different perspective on the Syrian conflict by examining how the war's reach can also be located amid the losses, interruptions, and experiences of those Syrians who have until now largely escaped its incredible violence. By looking closely at how the war has altered the life trajectories of and produced distinct modes of vulnerability for military-age men, I develop an argument about how, although they avoid fighting …
Geopolitics, Food Security, and Imaginings of the State in Qatar's Desert Landscape
In June 2017, a geopolitical crisis that emerged in the Arab Gulf between Qatar and several of its neighboring countries resulted in the severing of diplomatic ties and the imposition of a land, sea, and air embargo on Qatar. This article explores how the import, production, and consumption of food in Qatar came to constitute a key geopolitical axis during the first year of the crisis. Building on scholarly work that examines food as not just a p…
Driving across the warscape
In this paper, I draw on ethnographic research with Syrian cross border taxi drivers in developing an argument about how their mobility is a crucible of the interlocking relations between the production of masculinity and political economy during wartime. I propose that thinking with the Syrian cross-border taxi driver advances our theoretical approaches to the temporality of war and the conceptualization of warscape. In so doing, I challenge the…
Deniz Yonucu's police, provocation, politics
Planning for the Family in Qatar
During research in Qatar with practitioners in assisted reproduction and infertility medicine, I found that across the broad range of views they expressed about their approaches to consulting with patients, there was something shared: that their work with assisted reproductive technologies (ARTs) entailed taking up moral and ethical positions. In this paper, I draw on interviews with medical professionals to analyse the local moral worlds which s…
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