Occupied Lives Maintaining Integrity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank.

Media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not necessarily enhance one's knowledge or understanding of the Palestinians; on the contrary they are often reduced to either victims or perpetrators. Similarly, while many academic studies devote considerable effort to analyzing the poli...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Gren, Nina
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: La Vergne : The American University in Cairo Press, 2015.
Temas:
Refugee camps > West Bank.
Camps de réfugiés > Cisjordanie.
Refugee camps
West Bank
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Half Title Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Dedication
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Maps
  • Chronology of Events
  • Introduction
  • Focus and Purpose
  • Being Camp Refugees under Violent Occupation
  • Integrity and Constrained Agency
  • Why a Focus on Everyday Life?
  • 'Normality' in a Violent and Prolonged Refugee Situation
  • Social Continuity: New Homes and Reestablished Family Lines
  • A Moral Crisis on Repeat
  • Doing Fieldwork in Dheisheh
  • Overview of Chapters
  • 1. Dheisheh as a Social and Political Space
  • The Order of Things in Dheisheh
  • The Bethlehem Area
  • The Dynamics of Lingering Villages
  • Earlier Political Affiliations and Activism in Dheisheh
  • Political Disengagement at the Time of Fieldwork
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 2. Living with Violence and Insecurity
  • Experiencing Ongoing Crisis
  • The Presence of Extraordinary Deaths
  • Extending the Limits of Normality
  • Remaining Patient and Hopeful
  • Negotiating Trust
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 3. The Making of New Homes
  • To Build a House Is to Make a Life
  • Imprisonment Delaying Life
  • Children as Normality, Resistance, and Recovery
  • Reframing Home to a Political Stage
  • Getting by Together
  • Concluding Remarks
  • 4. Reconstituting a Moral Order
  • A Chain of Catastrophic Events
  • The Camp as a Moral Community
  • Palestinian Moral Superiority and the Immoral Others
  • Moral Contamination
  • A Shaken Political Morality
  • Concluding Remarks
  • Conclusion
  • Maintaining Integrity in the Face of Violation
  • Struggling against Temporariness
  • Having a Life or Being a True Patriot?
  • How May One Remain a Political Subject?
  • Existence and Politics
  • Notes
  • References

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