Life Lived in Relief

Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics

Ilana Feldman (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2018
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-29963-4 (ISBN)

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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.

Ilana Feldman is Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University. She is the author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–1967 and Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.11.2018
Zusatzinfo	20 bw illustrations, 2 maps
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	499 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-29963-9 / 0520299639
ISBN-13	978-0-520-29963-4 / 9780520299634
Zustand	Neuware