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Abgründe und Beweggründe : zu den affektiven Implikationen eines identitätspolitischen Konflikts
(2023)
Tatjana Hofmann analysiert den "postkolonialen Revanchismus", der wesentlich zur Eskalation des Konflikts beitrug und schon Jahrzehnte vor dem Euromaidan in literarischen Werken wie Jurij Andruchovyčs "Moscoviada" (1993) artikuliert wurde, ehe er dann in der aufgeheizten Debatte nach der Präsidentschaftswahl von Petro Porošenko den innerukrainischen Literaturbetrieb dominierte und die Weiterentwicklung eines nichtessentialistischen postmodernen Raum- und Kulturdenkens erschwerte - was auch prinzipielle Fragen zu den affektiven Dispositionen literatur- und kulturwissenschaftlicher Forschung selber aufwirft.
Mit dem Ausbruch eines Krieges in der Ostukraine hatte vor 2014 niemand gerechnet. Die rasante Geschwindigkeit, mit der die innenpolitische Krise in einer der einst stabilsten ehemaligen Sowjetrepubliken zu einem hybriden Krieg eskalierte, deutet dabei nicht nur auf rationale militär- bzw. wirtschaftsstrategische Interessen hin. Obwohl die Ukraine und Russland eine jahrhundertealte gemeinsame Geschichte und kulturelle Nähe verbindet, offenbart der Konflikt auch tiefe gegenseitige Ressentiments und geschichtspolitische Obsessionen, die bereits lange vorher in künstlerischen Werken und kulturellen Diskursen präsent waren. In der Ukraine-Krise kam es zu einer Reinszenierung kollektiver Phantasmen, historischer Helden- und Opfermythen. Paradoxerweise aber eröffneten die Gewaltbereitschaft und Kriegslust, mit der alle Parteien auf lokaler, nationaler und virtueller Ebene diese Dynamik vorantrieben, unter anderem Kulturschaffenden auch Möglichkeiten, die gefühlte Ohnmacht zu überwinden und gesellschaftlich handlungsfähig zu werden. Diese Entwicklung ist tief durch die (post-)sowjetischen Erfahrungen geprägt und zugleich eng mit globalen und medialen Veränderungen verbunden. Die Fallstudien des Bandes loten die affektiven und diskursiven Dimensionen des Konfliktes aus und leisten damit einen Beitrag zur Konzeptualisierung der postsozialistischen Gesellschaften und Kulturen im Osten Europas.
Goats remain the most viable livestock in the warzone of South Lebanon because of their compatibility with wartime environments and ordnance. They can survive periods of scarcity during active war, occupations, or invasions by foraging for food and eating almost anything. Most crucially, goats are small and light and can graze in the borderland's many minefields without setting off the hidden explosives designed to kill humans, who are not as light-footed. In this essay, Munira Khayyat explores how an enduring, explosive military technology is both domesticated and resisted by a homegrown, anti-mine survival assemblage.
This essay is an excerpt from Jumana Emil Abboud's ongoing journal, which she started keeping in 2010. With the help of photographer Issa Freij, the artist identified spirited water spots in the topography of Palestine, based on her childhood memories and a 1922 study on "Haunted Springs and Water Demons in Palestine". The text was written as part of a performance by Abboud at the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center in 2016.
Nadine Hattom's text is written as a sequel to the artist's 'Shadows' series (2016), comprised of ten digitally altered photographs made from US Department of Defense public-domain images depicting Operation Iraqi Freedom. As Hattom's piece explores migration and landscape, it untangles narratives rooted in the colours, textures, ecosystems, and geographies of the Middle East, but also in the political implications of the author's position in the landscapes of the West.
A series of creative non-fiction short stories based on ethnographic interviews and participant observation in Iraq from 2014–2022, Kali Rubaii's reflection asks: what is a toxic affect? In these stories, war-torn ecologies are packed with living and non-living beings that emerge in the floor of a mosque, in a graveyard, from a pillow, a toilet, and construction sites in Iraq.
Who's afraid of ideology?
(2023)
Artist Marwa Arsanios shares textual fragments from research she conducted for the first and second parts of a video trilogy titled "Who's Afraid of Ideology?" Meditating on the voiding effects of war, and the ecological and affective texture of communal resistance and eco-feminist praxis as they emerge in Iraqi Kurdistan, Lebanon, and northern Syria, the text takes us to ecological milieux made of wild medicinal plants, fig trees, Kurdish guerrillas, and farmers in a women-only commune.
How can the Armenian genocide be considered in terms of its ecological roots and remnants? Umut Yıldırım explores the more-than-human flora and fauna indigenous to the banks of the Tigris river in Upper Mesopotamia - in particular, centenarian mulberry trees - as resistant roots that register the evidentiary ecologies of the Armenian genocide through the Turkish state's denialist present and its ongoing war against the Kurds.
Umut Yıldırım's introduction combines the genres of literature review and commentary. It re-examines contemporary works on posthuman life to articulate ecological life-and-death politics within the context of colonial, imperial, and genocidal mass violence, and their entangled environmental legacies and actualities. A dissident repertoire of anthropological and artistic research is offered, which examines the ecological impact of war through the perspectives of human and more-than-human actors whose racialized and geographically regimented lives endure and counter ongoing environmental destruction.
"War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East" identifies a conceptual intersection between war, affect, and ecology from the Middle East. It creates a counter archive of texts by ethnographers and artists, and enables divergent worlds to share a conversation through the crevices of mass violence across species. Delving into vital encounters with mulberry trees, wild medicinal plants, jinns, and goats, as well as bleaker experiences with toxic war materials like landmines, this volume expands an ecological sensorium that works through displacement, memory, endurance, and praxis.