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Life lived in relief : humanitarian predicaments and Palestinian refugee politics

Feldman, Ilana, 1969- author

Overview

\"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\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Refugee camps Social aspects. / Humanitarianism Social aspects Middle East. / Humanitarian assistance Middle East. / Palestinian Arabs History 20th century.
• ISBN: 9780520299627, 9780520299634

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
HV640.5.P36 F45 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE