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Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics

Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics

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AnthropologyImmigration & Refugees

ISBN10: 0520299620
ISBN13: 9780520299627
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: Oct 30 2018
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.25
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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.

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