Ghaleb Attrache is a sociology PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He studies the relationships between culture, knowledge, embodiment, and power, especially in the context of environmental stewardship and human-nonhuman interactions. Ghaleb’s dissertation examines efforts among governmental, non-governmental, and Indigenous fire and land management organizations in California to practice and promote intentional burning. Based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork and interviews, the dissertation compares the different ways fire practitioners understand fire and land’s aliveness, and how this shapes understandings of care for and responsibility to place. Previously, Ghaleb's research focused on the relationship between knowledge and emotion among grassroots activists mobilizing for social change during Syria's 2011 popular uprising.
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