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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.
Keywords: Communal resistance; Eco-feminist praxis; Fig trees; Kurdish movement; Kurdistan; Rojava; Voiding; Wild medicinal plants
Rights: © by the author(s). Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
Part of War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments Containing:
Foreword / Françoise Vergès
War-torn Ecologies / Umut Yıldırım
Mulberry Affects / Umut Yıldırım
Who’s Afraid of Ideology?
Note the Ghosts / Kali Rubaii
Great Sand / Nadine Hattom
Hide Your Water from the Sun / Jumana Emil Abboud
Of Goats and Bombs / Munira Khayyat
Title
Who’s Afraid of Ideology?
Author(s)
Marwa Arsanios
Identifier
https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-27_3
Description
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.
Is Part Of
War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments
Place
Berlin
Publisher
ICI Berlin Press
Date
19 September 2023
Subject
Communal resistance
Eco-feminist praxis
Fig trees
Kurdish movement
Kurdistan
Rojava
Voiding
Wild medicinal plants
Rights
© by the author(s)
Except for images or otherwise noted, this publication is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
Language
en-GB
page start
67
page end
83
Source
War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East, ed. by Umut Yıldırım, Cultural Inquiry, 27 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 67–83
Cite as: Marwa Arsanios, ‘Who’s Afraid of Ideology?’, in War-torn Ecologies, An-Archic Fragments: Reflections from the Middle East, ed. by Umut Yıldırım, Cultural Inquiry, 27 (Berlin: ICI Berlin Press, 2023), pp. 67-83 <https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-27_3>