The endurance of Palestinian political factions : an everyday perspective from Nahr el-Bared camp /

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"The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions is an ethnographic study of Palestinian political factions in Lebanon through an immersion in daily home life. Perla Issa asks how sometimes unpopular and discredited political factions remain the center of political life in the Palestinian camps...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Issa, Perla (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2021]
Series:New directions in palestinian studies ; 3
Subjects:
Nahr al-Bārid (Refugee camp)
Refugees, Palestinian Arab > Social aspects > Lebanon.
Réfugiés palestiniens > Aspect social > Liban.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Lebanon
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • "Empty Buildings" : Introduction
  • 'The nest of the crazy' : the ethnographic setting
  • 'We Drank the Jabha with our Mothers' Milk' : 'joining factions'
  • 'We are the factions' : political faction membership
  • 'Factions are like shops' : aid, discipline, and the structural effect
  • 'Factions are forced husbands' : physical representations, factionalism and Party ideology
  • 'The guys were doing something great, the factions destroyed it' : conclusion
  • Appendix A : Glossary of factions.

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