K Rubaii
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5406 |
|---|---|
| NOME | K Rubaii |
| PRENOMES | K |
| SOBRENOME | Rubaii |
| ASSINATURA | RUBAII K |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Purdue University West Lafayette |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3016-8544 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Forensics
Torture is kinship work
Through the stories of two women, one in Ecuador and one in Iraq, this paper examines how torture works through kinship structures to exploit and produce the affective infrastructures of familiar ties. As they contend with ongoing relationality, family members of the detained, tortured, or disappeared become hostage to their location, uncertainty, and bodily immobility. Cold War affect arises amidst the militarized occupation of consanguinity and…
Deferral and dispersal
Parting the fog of war
The procurement process of militaries, particularly during war time can be complex and secretive, which makes access to data needed to conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) difficult to obtain. • Our framework uses a whole supply chain LCA to measure the carbon emissions from concrete used by the US military during the Iraq war. • Our results show that the combined emissions of T-walls alone used in Iraq came to 54.8 thousand tonnes CO2e, which is…
When "conflict free" minerals go to war
The article develops a simple but important argument: “conflict free” minerals are essential to the waging of contemporary war. This argument is substantiated over three main sections. First, we provide historical background to the idea of “conflict minerals” to show how they are narrowly associated with the violence of extraction and with consumer products (phones, electric vehicles, etc) in way that forecloses their use in weapons manufacturing…
Cement and displacement
Displaced people have not escaped war and do not live apart from it. This is evident in the material life of internally displaced Iraqi farmers seeking refuge in a concrete construction site, downstream from a cement-processing plant in Iraqi Kurdistan. There, one family has repeatedly tried to build a traditional tannour (bread oven) out of unworkable, cement-infused materials in their environment. As their experience shows, physical brushes wit…
Late modern war and the geos
This article develops the idea that late modern war’s relationship with the geos (the ground and the life 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 artic…
Decentering death
How does violent military coercion work alongside liberal democratic values in contemporary iterations of imperialism? This article shows how the less-than-lethal paradigm occludes death and perpetuates extreme forms of both deadly and not-deadly military coercion in Iraq. Key to the 2003 invasion and subsequent counterinsurgency in Iraq, the less-than-lethal paradigm extends across military doctrine and US popular discourse. Based on the idea th…
This Is Why We Protect the Rivers, This Is How We Love the Rivers
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are the sacred world-makers and life-sustainers of Iraq. At the same time, war has transformed them into toxified vectors of disease, death, and neglect. The “river protectors” (some of them identifying as activists, others not) strive to protect and repair their river ecologies from unjust destruction, even as they work under the shadow of prophecy that predicts the irreparable demise of these waterways. This essa…
Homelanding
Almost like a secret, the women beckoned for me to follow. They took me to the water, knowing somehow that I wouldn't feel at home until I touched the Tigris. The water gurgled as my hand disturbed its surface in the night. The yellow moon made the wet backs of the reeds shimmer. The women murmured to me, held my hand in the glow of our lights. They taught me the names of the plants. They taught me names of the soils and landforms. They told me m…
The explosion
This ethnographic vignette, part of a special section on flash ethnography, describes the responses of bystanders and the security state to an explosion at a gas station in Fallujah, Iraq, during the author's fieldwork in 2021-2022
Troubling complicities
This creative article seeks to trouble dominant modes of how anthropologists position themselves as moral subjects and grapple with their complicity with/in empire today: what we call "bearing witness" and "denunciation/confession." In contrast to these models, we perform and theorize our own complicities by staying with the multiple social, relational, political, and epistemological entanglements that our fieldwork produces. Through a braided di…
Concrete Soldiers”
Standing inside a t-wall factory in Erbil in the summer of 2021, I was struck by the fact that, nearly twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, these military walls were still in production. T-walls are six-ton steel-reinforced, blast-proof concrete wall segments named for their upside-down t-shape (Fig. 1). They were introduced to Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s. Derivative of the Berlin wall's design, they are recognizable to those w…
On sieges, boundaries, and military creep
Trust without Confidence
As participants in a small trust network smuggle medication across ISIS-controlled northern Iraq to hospitals in the besieged city of Mosul, they theorize their pragmatic entanglements with unknown others. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2014 and 2015, as well as the author's participation in this network, the essay introduces enunciatory trust, or trust without confidence, as an analytical framework for surviving (in)security in Iraq
Trust without Confidence
As participants in a small trust network smuggle medication across ISIS-controlled northern Iraq to hospitals in the besieged city of Mosul, they theorize their pragmatic entanglements with unknown others. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2014 and 2015, as well as the author's participation in this network, the essay introduces enunciatory trust, or trust without confidence, as an analytical framework for surviving (in)security in Iraq
Late modern war and the geos
This article develops the idea that late modern war’s relationship with the geos (the ground and the life 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 artic…
Concrete Soldiers”
Standing inside a t-wall factory in Erbil in the summer of 2021, I was struck by the fact that, nearly twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, these military walls were still in production. T-walls are six-ton steel-reinforced, blast-proof concrete wall segments named for their upside-down t-shape (Fig. 1). They were introduced to Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s. Derivative of the Berlin wall's design, they are recognizable to those w…
Decentering death
How does violent military coercion work alongside liberal democratic values in contemporary iterations of imperialism? This article shows how the less-than-lethal paradigm occludes death and perpetuates extreme forms of both deadly and not-deadly military coercion in Iraq. Key to the 2003 invasion and subsequent counterinsurgency in Iraq, the less-than-lethal paradigm extends across military doctrine and US popular discourse. Based on the idea th…
Troubling complicities
This creative article seeks to trouble dominant modes of how anthropologists position themselves as moral subjects and grapple with their complicity with/in empire today: what we call "bearing witness" and "denunciation/confession." In contrast to these models, we perform and theorize our own complicities by staying with the multiple social, relational, political, and epistemological entanglements that our fieldwork produces. Through a braided di…
Homelanding
Almost like a secret, the women beckoned for me to follow. They took me to the water, knowing somehow that I wouldn't feel at home until I touched the Tigris. The water gurgled as my hand disturbed its surface in the night. The yellow moon made the wet backs of the reeds shimmer. The women murmured to me, held my hand in the glow of our lights. They taught me the names of the plants. They taught me names of the soils and landforms. They told me m…
Trust without Confidence
As participants in a small trust network smuggle medication across ISIS-controlled northern Iraq to hospitals in the besieged city of Mosul, they theorize their pragmatic entanglements with unknown others. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in 2014 and 2015, as well as the author's participation in this network, the essay introduces enunciatory trust, or trust without confidence, as an analytical framework for surviving (in)security in Iraq
On sieges, boundaries, and military creep
Concrete Soldiers”
Standing inside a t-wall factory in Erbil in the summer of 2021, I was struck by the fact that, nearly twenty years after the US invasion of Iraq, these military walls were still in production. T-walls are six-ton steel-reinforced, blast-proof concrete wall segments named for their upside-down t-shape (Fig. 1). They were introduced to Afghanistan and Iraq in the early 2000s. Derivative of the Berlin wall's design, they are recognizable to those w…
This Is Why We Protect the Rivers, This Is How We Love the Rivers
The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers are the sacred world-makers and life-sustainers of Iraq. At the same time, war has transformed them into toxified vectors of disease, death, and neglect. The “river protectors” (some of them identifying as activists, others not) strive to protect and repair their river ecologies from unjust destruction, even as they work under the shadow of prophecy that predicts the irreparable demise of these waterways. This essa…
Homelanding
Almost like a secret, the women beckoned for me to follow. They took me to the water, knowing somehow that I wouldn't feel at home until I touched the Tigris. The water gurgled as my hand disturbed its surface in the night. The yellow moon made the wet backs of the reeds shimmer. The women murmured to me, held my hand in the glow of our lights. They taught me the names of the plants. They taught me names of the soils and landforms. They told me m…
The explosion
This ethnographic vignette, part of a special section on flash ethnography, describes the responses of bystanders and the security state to an explosion at a gas station in Fallujah, Iraq, during the author's fieldwork in 2021-2022
Troubling complicities
This creative article seeks to trouble dominant modes of how anthropologists position themselves as moral subjects and grapple with their complicity with/in empire today: what we call "bearing witness" and "denunciation/confession." In contrast to these models, we perform and theorize our own complicities by staying with the multiple social, relational, political, and epistemological entanglements that our fieldwork produces. Through a braided di…
Late modern war and the geos
This article develops the idea that late modern war’s relationship with the geos (the ground and the life 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 artic…
Decentering death
How does violent military coercion work alongside liberal democratic values in contemporary iterations of imperialism? This article shows how the less-than-lethal paradigm occludes death and perpetuates extreme forms of both deadly and not-deadly military coercion in Iraq. Key to the 2003 invasion and subsequent counterinsurgency in Iraq, the less-than-lethal paradigm extends across military doctrine and US popular discourse. Based on the idea th…
Deferral and dispersal
Parting the fog of war
The procurement process of militaries, particularly during war time can be complex and secretive, which makes access to data needed to conduct Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) difficult to obtain. • Our framework uses a whole supply chain LCA to measure the carbon emissions from concrete used by the US military during the Iraq war. • Our results show that the combined emissions of T-walls alone used in Iraq came to 54.8 thousand tonnes CO2e, which is…
When "conflict free" minerals go to war
The article develops a simple but important argument: “conflict free” minerals are essential to the waging of contemporary war. This argument is substantiated over three main sections. First, we provide historical background to the idea of “conflict minerals” to show how they are narrowly associated with the violence of extraction and with consumer products (phones, electric vehicles, etc) in way that forecloses their use in weapons manufacturing…
Cement and displacement
Displaced people have not escaped war and do not live apart from it. This is evident in the material life of internally displaced Iraqi farmers seeking refuge in a concrete construction site, downstream from a cement-processing plant in Iraqi Kurdistan. There, one family has repeatedly tried to build a traditional tannour (bread oven) out of unworkable, cement-infused materials in their environment. As their experience shows, physical brushes wit…
Forensics
Torture is kinship work
Through the stories of two women, one in Ecuador and one in Iraq, this paper examines how torture works through kinship structures to exploit and produce the affective infrastructures of familiar ties. As they contend with ongoing relationality, family members of the detained, tortured, or disappeared become hostage to their location, uncertainty, and bodily immobility. Cold War affect arises amidst the militarized occupation of consanguinity and…
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