Kali Rubaii
Social Sciences · Purdue University West Lafayette
Publications
19
Citations
254
Est. group size
—
Recurring co-author estimate
Active years
8
Publishing since 2018
Kali Rubaii is a social scientist (anthropologist) whose work examines the aftermath and ongoing effects of war, particularly in Iraq, including military violence, environmental contamination, refugee politics, and the material and ecological legacies of conflict. Their research combines ethnographic fieldwork with attention to how militarization reshapes landscapes, health, and social relations such as sectarianism and displacement.
Publication output has been fairly steady over the last decade, fluctuating between 1 and 4 papers per year, with a recent uptick in 2025.
Generated by claude-sonnet-5 from public bibliographic data · Jul 20, 2026
- Deferral and dispersal: The military violence of post-war clean-up
Human Organization · 2025
- When “conflict free” minerals go to war
Political Geography · 2025
- Late modern war and the <i>geos</i> : The ecological ‘beforemaths’ of advanced military technologies
Security Dialogue · 2024
- Troubling complicities
Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory · 2023
- This Is Why We Protect the Rivers, This Is How We Love the Rivers
Critical Times · 2023
- “Concrete Soldiers”: T-walls and Coercive Landscaping in Iraq
International Journal Middle East Studies · 2022
- The environmental risk factors of birth defects in Iraq
ISEE Conference Abstracts · 2022
- 1 When States Need Refugees: Iraqi Kurdistan and the Security Alibi
Berghahn Books · 2022
- When States Need Refugees:
Berghahn Books · 2021
- On sieges, boundaries, and military creep
Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory · 2021
- When States Need Refugees:
Berghahn Books · 2021
- 1. When States Need Refugees: Iraqi Kurdistan and the Security Alibi
Berghahn Books · 2021
- Trust without Confidence: Moving Medicine with Dirty Hands
Cultural Anthropology · 2020
- Tripartheid: How Sectarianism Became Internal to Being in Anbar, Iraq
PoLAR Political and Legal Anthropology Review · 2019
- SAMI, Part I
University of Massachusetts Press eBooks · 2019
- Berghahn Books×4
- Hau Journal of Ethnographic Theory×2
- University of Massachusetts Press eBooks×2
- International Journal Middle East Studies×1
- Security Dialogue×1
- Mohamed S. Helal
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- John Davis
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
- Nicholas T. Basta
Environmental Science · The Ohio State University
- Abigail R. Hall
Economics, Econometrics and Finance · Indiana University
- Jennifer Mitzen
Social Sciences · The Ohio State University
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Last updated Jul 20, 2026.
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