“Resurgency tells a story that cries out to be heard. Rubaii’s warm and engaging narrative voice alongside her eye for horrifying and humanizing details make this not only a courageous ethnography and an important contribution to anthropological theory, but also a vital offering to public culture and democratic debate. Essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the Middle East.”—Hugh Gusterson, co-editor of, Militarization: A Reader“A remarkable ethnography. Kali Rubaii sheds light on the protracted impacts of war and occupation on the peoples, livelihoods, landscapes, and plants and other non-human species in Iraq—and, by implication, the world over. This important, timely, and richly evocative book offers distinctive concepts and framings that will surely be adopted by other anthropologists writing about genocide, ecocide, and corporate plunder.”—Nathalie Peutz, New York University-Abu Dhabi
