ISBN:
9780804788953
,
0804788952
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (328 pages)
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Series Statement:
Stanford studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic societies and cultures
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Allan, Diana (Diana Keown) Refugees of the revolution
DDC:
305.8927405692
Keywords:
Shātīlā (Refugee camp)
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Shātīlā (Refugee camp)
;
Refugees, Palestinian Arab Social conditions
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Lebanon
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Palestinian Arabs Social conditions
;
Lebanon
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Refugees
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Lebanon
;
Refugee camps Lebanon
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Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 Refugees
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Refugee camps
;
Refugees, Palestinian Arab Social conditions
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Palestinian Arabs Social conditions
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Palestinian Arabs ; Social conditions
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Refugee camps
;
Refugees
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Refugees, Palestinian Arab ; Social conditions
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Social Welfare & Social Work
;
Social Sciences
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Social Welfare & Social Work - General
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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Lebanon
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Commemorative economies -- Economic subjectivity and everyday solidarities -- Stealing power -- Dream talk, futurity, and hope -- Futures elsewhere -- Many returns -- Conclusion : the roots of exile.
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 28, 2013)
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