
Life Lived in Relief
Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics
Ilana Feldman(Author)
University of California Press
1st Edition
Published on 30. October 2018
Book
Paperback/Softback
336 pages
978-0-520-29963-4 (ISBN)
Description
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.
Reviews / Votes
"Feldman reminds us, in the context of the current migrant crisis, Palestinian refugees have much to teach us about a migrant politics of presence. This is an exceptional book. It represents an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Palestine, humanitarianism, displacement, and refugee politics from a leading ethnographer of Palestinian life." * Journal of Palestine Studies *More details
Edition
First Edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Berkerley
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
20 bw illustrations, 2 maps
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 20 mm
Weight
499 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-520-29963-4 (9780520299634)
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Person
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.
Content
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
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