Abstract:

Reporting on the Syrian civil war and on Syrian migration to Europe since 2015 often suggests that a drought from 2006–2009 caused an agricultural collapse, spurring rural-to-urban migration and social conflict underpinning the uprisings of 2011. Such narratives regularly focus on the mass death of sheep, goats, and other “livestock” as indexes of the environmental violence underpinning war and migration. Climate security narratives tend to configure animal death as national debility in ways that suggest that slow environmental processes affecting rural pastoralists erupt into social destabilization. Critically examining such visions of migration and animal death as national debility, this essay offers a critique of Syrian climate migration and climate war discourses. Arguing that the effects of aerial bombing and long-term agrarian struggles are evident in the publicity around animal depopulation, the essay suggests that international reporting on climate war and migration are limited by a failure to inquire into concerns (raised in some sectors of the opposition) about the sustainability of monoculture enterprises and the forms of capitalist agriculture. As such, they tend to evacuate political struggles over infrastructure and environment in wartime Syria. Building on this interpretation of the tropes of animality and debility in Syrian war representation, the final section of the essay draws out methodological lessons for how scholars of disability studies and animal studies might advance the intersection of those fields as well as transnational frameworks of critique in each.

摘要：

关于2015年以来叙利亚内战和叙利亚向欧洲移民的报道经常表明，2006-2009年的干旱导致农业崩溃，刺激了农村向城市的移民和社会冲突，从而加剧了2011年的起义。绵羊，山羊和其他“牲畜”的大量死亡是环境暴力的基础，是战争和移民的基础。气候安全的叙述倾向于将动物的死亡定为国家的残障，其方式表明，影响农村牧民的缓慢的环境过程爆发，导致社会动荡。批判性地考察了移徙和动物死亡等民族弱化的观点，这篇文章对叙利亚气候移徙和气候战争的论述进行了评论。该论点认为，空袭和长期土地斗争的影响在有关动物种群减少的宣传中是显而易见的，该文章表明，关于气候战争和移民问题的国际报道受到未能调查关注的限制（在反对派的某些部门提出） ）关于单一养殖企业的可持续性和资本主义农业形式。因此，他们倾向于撤出战时叙利亚在基础设施和环境方面的政治斗争。在对叙利亚战争代表中的动物性和残疾性的这种解释的基础上，本文的最后部分为残疾人研究和动物研究的学者如何促进这些领域的交叉以及跨国的批评框架画出了方法论教训。每个。