Munira Khayyat - The Intimacy of Oil: Aramco, Arabia & Empire

Centre for Gulf Studies (CGS) Virtual Seminar Series (20th February 2024) with guest speaker Munira Khayyat
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Abstract:
This is a genealogical and familial work of scholarship embroidered by three sisters across disciplines and practices that plumbs the affective and intimate spaces of empire by way of their mother's memoir of growing up in Aramco and their maternal grandfather's vast photographic archive throughout the decades of his employment there. Bringing the diverse capacities of different disciplines, approaches and processes to bear upon the embodied history of empire, this sisterly work is a feminist re-ordering of archives, narratives. memories and the place of the political in the viscera of our ordinary life-worlds.
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Bio:
Currently a Clinical Associate Professor at @nyu-abudhabi, Munira is an anthropologist whose research revolves around life in war, intimate genealogies of empire, and theory from the South. Her first book, A Landscape of War: Ecologies of Resistance and Survival in South Lebanon (@UCPress) examines resistant ecologies in a world of perennial warfare. Drawing on long-term fieldwork in frontline villages along Lebanon’s southern border with Israel, she examines war not only as a place of death and destruction, but also necessarily, as an environment of living.
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