Life Lived in Relief : Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics /

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"Palestinian refugees' experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community's engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to alter their present...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Feldman, Ilana, 1969- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Palestinian Arabs.
Humanitarian assistance.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Palestiniens > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Camps de refugies > Aspect social.
Palestinian Arabs > History > 20th century.
Humanitarian assistance > Middle East.
Humanitarianism > Social aspects > Middle East.
Refugee camps > Social aspects.
Middle East.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Punctuated humanitarianism and discordant politics
  • No exit : politics and refugee status
  • Oscillating needs and the aid apparatus
  • Conflicted positions : compromised action and suspicious relations
  • The politics of living as a refugee
  • Living and dying at humanitarianism's limits
  • Non-humanitarian futures?
  • Making livable lives in a world in crisis
  • Timeline of historical events.

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