Towards an Ethics ofBeing-With

Intertwinements of Life in Post-Invasion Basra

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2142581
AutoresHayder Al-Mohammad, Hayder Al‐mohammad (University of Kent, autor de correspondencia)
Año2010
Volumen75
Número4
Páginas425-446
Fecha de publicación2010-12-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaEthnos (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0014-1844 • E-ISSN: 1469-588X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00141844.2010.544394
OpenAlexW2051655874
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas30
Referencias citadas45

In this paper, I turn to Oum Hassan, a woman who works as a cleaner in a hotel in Basra, and show that her life is as much a life for her niece and sister as it is about maintaining her own existence in the face of tremendous pressures. Where anthropologists have insisted on the primordiality of social relationship to the constitution of personhood, I am wanting to recast some of this interest into a language of an ethics of life and being-with

Constitution · Environmental ethics · Face (sociological concept · Nephew and niece · Personhood · Political science · Sister · Social life · Social science · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Islamic Studies and History · Law · Multiculturalism, Politics, Migration, Gender · Philosophy