Life Lived in Relief

Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics

Dados Bibliográficos

ID20009886
AutoresIlana Feldman (0000-0002-3347-411X, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Páginas336
Data de publicação2018-10-30
Open AccessSim
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoLife Lived in Relief (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraUniversity of California Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1525/california/9780520299627.001.0001
OpenAlexW4233811306
Open LibraryOL27360828M
ISBN9780520299627
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9

Palestinian refugees’ experience of displacement is among the lengthiest in history. Life Lived in Relief explores this community’s engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts over this long time span to alter their present and future conditions. Even as humanitarian intervention is conceived as crisis-driven and focused on survival, protracted displacement is a common circumstance, necessitating long-term humanitarian presence. The book describes the operational challenges of oscillating between chronic conditions and repeating emergency situations as “punctuated humanitarianism.” Punctuated humanitarianism also means that people move through different relationships with the humanitarian apparatus. Palestinian refugee politics is buffeted between near and far futures, close and distant geographies, and immediate needs and existential claims. This politics is expressed not only in the register of suffering but also as aspiration, existence, and refusal. These multiplicities are often discordant, but they persist together. The “politics of living” in and against humanitarianism is central to what it has meant to be Palestinian since 1948. It also provides new insights into the possibilities of political life in precarious conditions. The story of Palestinians and humanitarianism is illustrative of life and relief in the many circumstances of protracted displacement across the globe

Displaced person · Displacement (psychology) · Existentialism · Futures contract · Globe · Humanitarian aid · Humanitarian crisis · Humanitarian intervention · Internally displaced person · Intervention (counseling) · Life span · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Psychoanalysis · Refugee · Sociology · Asian Geopolitics and Ethnography · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Medicine · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Psychology · Humanitarian assistance · Humanitarianism · Palestinian arabs · Gerontology