In this Book
- Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
- Book
- 2018
- Published by: University of California Press
summary
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 and future conditions. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic field research, Life Lived in Relief offers a comprehensive account of the Palestinian refugee experience living with humanitarian assistance in many spaces and across multiple generations. By exploring the complex world constituted through humanitarianism, and how that world is experienced by the many people who inhabit it, Feldman asks pressing questions about what it means for a temporary status to become chronic. How do people in these conditions assert the value of their lives? What does the Palestinian situation tell us about the world? Life Lived in Relief is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of humanitarianism today.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- List of Illustrations
- pp. vii-viii
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-xii
- Note on Transliteration
- pp. xiii-xvi
- PART ONE THE HUMANITARIAN SITUATION
- PART TWO THE HUMANITARIAN CONDITION
- Chapter 7 Non-humanitarian Futures?
- pp. 192-222
- Historical Timeline
- pp. 239-240
- Bibliography
- pp. 275-298
Additional Information
ISBN
9780520971288
Related ISBN(s)
9780520299627, 9780520299634
MARC Record
OCLC
1043049820
Pages
336
Launched on MUSE
2018-11-17
Language
English
Open Access
No