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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Feldman, Ilana, Author.

Series:

California scholarship online.

California scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Palestinian Arabs--History--20th century.

Palestinian Arabs.

Humanitarian assistance--Middle East.

Humanitarian assistance.

Humanitarianism--Social aspects--Middle East.

Humanitarianism.

Refugee camps--Social aspects.

Refugee camps.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Note on Transliteration

Chapter 1. Punctuated Humanitarianism and Discordant Politics

Part One. The Humanitarian Situation

Chapter 2. No Exit: Politics and Refugee Status

Chapter 3. Oscillating Needs and the Aid Apparatus

Chapter 4. Conflicted Positions: Compromised Action and Suspicious Relations

Part Two. The Humanitarian Condition

Chapter 5. The Politics of Living as a Refugee

Chapter 6. Living and Dying at Humanitarianism's Limits

Chapter 7. Non-humanitarian Futures?

Chapter 8. Making Livable Lives in Worlds in Crisis

Historical Timeline

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

9780520971288

0520971280

OCLC:

1043049820