Ghaleb Attrache is a sociology PhD candidate at UC Berkeley. He studies the production and politics of knowledge in the context of environmental stewardship and human-nonhuman interactions. Ghaleb’s dissertation examines the current revitalization of intentional burning practices among governmental, non-governmental, and Indigenous fire and land management organizations in California. Based on participant observation, interviews, and archival materials, the dissertation compares the different ways fire practitioners and advocates of burning understand the aliveness of fire and land, and how these understandings shape practices of care 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.

PUBLICATIONS

2026. "Toward Indigenous fire relations in California" (Book Review Essay with Tony Marks-Block). American Ethnologist 53(2): 192-196. https://doi.org/10.1111/amet.70074

2018. "Contending With Hope and Heartbreak: Narrative, Knowledge, and Strategy in the Syrian Revolution." Journal of South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies 41(3): 42-59. 10.1353/jsa.2018.0009