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Displacing territory : Syrian and Palestinian refugees in Jordan / Karen Culcasi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Culcasi, Karen, author.
- Series:
- Chicago scholarship online.
- Chicago scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Refugees--Jordan.
- Refugees.
- Refugees--Syria.
- Refugees--Palestine.
- Refugees--Legal status, laws, etc--Jordan.
- Refugees--Jordan--Attitudes.
- Human territoriality--Middle East.
- Human territoriality.
- Palestinian Arabs--Jordan--Social conditions.
- Palestinian Arabs.
- Syrians--Jordan--Social conditions.
- Syrians.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (195 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 'Displacing Territory' explores the core concepts of territory and belonging - and humanizes refugees in the process. Based on fieldwork with Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan, the text explores how the lived realities of refugees are deeply affected by their imaginings of what constitutes territory and their sense of belonging to different places and territories. Karen Culcasi shows how these individual conceptualizations about territory don't always fit the Western-centric division of the world into states and territories, thus revealing alternative or subordinated forms and scales of territory. She also argues that disproportionate attention to 'refugee crises' in the Global North has diverted focus from other parts of the world that bear the responsibility of protecting the majority of the world's refugees.
- Contents:
- Displacing the study of territory
- The international refugee regime, durable solutions, and territory
- Territory and displacement in Jordan
- Pre-imperial and anti-imperial territories
- Hybrid territories
- The state-territory nexus
- Refugee camp territories.
- Notes:
- Previously issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on November 30, 2023).
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Culcasi, Karen Displacing Territory
- ISBN:
- 0-226-82705-4
- OCLC:
- 1378935046
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