In this talk, I will reflect on living through the end of the world (again) and the possibility of resistance, by re-visiting the village that centers my ethnography of life and war in South Lebanon, which was blown up and completely destroyed by Israel in October 2024.
Contribution long abstract
In this talk, I will reflect on living through the end of the world (again) by re-visiting the village that centers my ethnography of life and war in South Lebanon "A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon" (2022). This village and 37 other border villages, were blown up and completely destroyed by Israel in October 2024. The villages were forcibly emptied, the homes were turned to rubble, the olive groves were burned and uprooted, and the military resistance that had liberated South Lebanon in 2000 and successfully defended it in 2006, was dealt a devastating, almost deadly blow. Based on fieldwork conducted after the latest terrible war to destroy and devastate South Lebanon between October 2023 and November 2024, I will revisit the possibility of resistance and renewal after the end of the world. With military resistance in abeyance, it is life that must resist the intentional destruction of the Israeli war machine.