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Weak Seed and a Poisoned Land
Environmental Humanities Pub Date : 2018-05-01 , DOI: 10.1215/22011919-4385480
Vasiliki Touhouliotis

Six years after the cease-fire that halted the 2006 war between Lebanon and Israel, southern Lebanese indicted the remains of Israel’s weapons for contaminating their lands, stunting their crops, and making them sick. Against local and international discourses claiming inconclusive evidence and uncertainty about the toxic effects of the war, my southern Lebanese interlocutors insisted on causally linking Israel’s weapons to the perceived surge in cancer, infertility, and environmental degradation since 2006. Their insistence that war was causing this ongoing bodily and environmental malaise exposes the slow violence of war and challenges the liberal idea of war as a temporary event and paroxysm of violence. Taking southern Lebanese accounts seriously reveals how the liberal idea of war keeps Israeli weapons, toxic environments, and embodied pathologies causally separate and restricts what gets counted as a casualty of war. Based on a year of ethnographic fieldwork, this article approaches the confirmed and suspected toxic remnants of war as toxic infrastructures that sediment and distribute war’s lethal potential, years after the last bomb was dropped. Building on local accounts of the 2006 war that emphasize enduring environmental toxicity and its gendered effects, this article argues that southerners deployed their embodied knowledge of toxic infrastructures to contest the uncertainty about Israel’s weapons and to produce new truths about the war. Southerners thus disputed liberal assumptions about the end of the war, challenged normative understandings of war casualties, and enacted new ethical frameworks for recognizing the belated injuries of the 2006 war.

中文翻译:

弱种和毒土

停火使2006年黎巴嫩与以色列之间的战争停火六年后,黎巴嫩南部人起诉以色列残留的武器,以污染其土地,阻碍其作物生长并使他们生病。我对黎巴嫩南部的对话者持反对态度,认为以色列的武器与2006年以来的癌症,不育症和环境退化的激增有因果关系。在这种情况下,当地和国际上的言论对战争的毒害作用没有定论,也没有确定的不确定性。他们坚持认为,战争是造成这种情况的原因。持续的身体和环境不适暴露了战争的缓慢暴力,并挑战了自由主义的战争观念,即暂时的暴力事件和暴力发作。认真对待黎巴嫩南部的帐户,可以揭示自由战争的观念如何保持以色列的武器,有毒的环境,和具体的病因因果关系分开并限制了战争伤亡人数。基于一年的人种志田野调查,本文将确认和怀疑的战争遗留毒物作为有毒的基础设施,沉积并散布了战争的致命潜力,这是在最后一颗炸弹投掷数年之后。本文以2006年战争的当地情况为基础,强调持久的环境毒性及其性别影响,这篇文章认为,南方人运用了他们对毒性基础设施的具体认识,以抗衡以色列武器的不确定性并产生关于战争的新真相。因此,南方人对关于战争结束的自由主义假设提出异议,挑战了对战争伤亡的规范理解,并制定了新的道德框架来承认2006年战争的迟来伤害。
更新日期:2018-05-01
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