ISBN:
9780804774918
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (328 p)
Series Statement:
Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I
Parallel Title:
Print version Refugees of the Revolution : Experiences of Palestinian Exile
DDC:
305.892
Keywords:
Shatila (Refugee camp)
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Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Lebanon -- Social conditions
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Palestinian Arabs -- Lebanon -- Social conditions
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Refugees -- Lebanon
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Refugee camps -- Lebanon
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Sha¯ti¯la¯ (Refugee camp)
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Refugees -- Lebanon
;
Palestinian Arabs -- Lebanon -- Social conditions
;
Refugee camps -- Lebanon
;
Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Lebanon -- Social conditions
;
Shātīlā (Refugee camp)
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their ""right of return."" Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with ""the catastrophe"" of 1948 and their camps-inhabited now for four generations-as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tr
Description / Table of Contents:
Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translations; Introduction; 1. Commemorative Economies; 2. Economic Subjectivity and Everyday Solidarities; 3. Stealing Power; 4. Dream Talk, Futurity, and Hope; 5. Futures Elsewhere; 6. Many Returns; Conclusion: The Roots of Exile; Notes; References; Index
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