Beyond refugeeness
Complex subjectivities in Palestinian refugee camps
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3977545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tiina Järvi (0000-0002-3508-9389, Space and Political Agency Research Group (SPARG), Tampere University, Tampere, Finland, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1471-1489 |
| Publication date | 2024-10-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Social & Cultural Geography (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1464-9365 • E-ISSN: 1470-1197 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14649365.2024.2334949 |
| OpenAlex | W4393864048 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 62 |
This article explores Palestinian refugeeness to argue for a more complex understanding of refugee subjectivity. The subjectivities of Palestinian refugees – and especially of those from the refugee camps – have been informed by their participation in national politics. Therefore, Palestinian refugees, while embodying experiences of violence, displacement and exclusion much like other refugee communities, have also been emphatically seen through their political agencies. In this article, I aim to complicate the emphasis on political subjectivity and explore Palestinian refugee subjectivity as complex, multidimensional, and contradictory. By narrating ethnographic encounters with two of my interlocutors, I demonstrate that subjectivities emerge not only from their politicized position as Palestinian refugees nor from the camp spaces they dwell in but from their complex and mundane relationalities that are neither static nor coherent. By emphasizing this fluid complexity, the aim is to acknowledge refugee subjectivities as multidimensional and fragile formations imbued with internal tensions that emerge from multiple and contradictory desires and from a sense of self that is not reducible to refugeeness
Geography · Palestinian refugees · Political science · Refugee · Sociology · Gender Studies · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Migration, Refugees, and Integration
Introduction
The Humanitarian Condition
Ghostly Matters
The “Center of Life” Policy
Expectations to Fulfill
Landscape of Hope and Despair
Palestinian Refugees And Identity
Governing through Uncertainty
Refugeetude
Leaving Mother-Land
(In)coherent subjects? The politics of conceptualising resistance in the UK asylum system
Refugeeness as political subjectivity
The Everyday as Survival among Ex-Gaza Refugees in Jordan
Min Al-Mukhayyam’ (‘From the Camp’)
All the Beautiful Things’
Like Something Sacred
The Challenge of Categories
Palestinian Refugees of the Oslo Generation
G Rass-Roots C Ommemorations
Social geography I
Geographies of migration I
Spatialising the refugee camp
What is a camp? Legitimate refugee lives in spaces of long-term displacement
Breaking up with Deleuze
Is post-phenomenology a critical geography? Subjectivity and difference in post-phenomenological geographies
Suspending Damage
Politics of (in)visibility
Save (us from) the children
The refugee camp as a space of multiple ambiguities and subjectivities
Spacing the subject
Hybrid Sovereignty and the State of Exception in the Palestinian Refugee Camps in Lebanon
In the Absence of Practice
Refugees in the IT Sector
The everyday erosion of refugee claims
Introduction
Depths and Folds
Gathering 'Dreams of Presence
Border Violence and Migrant Subjectivities
This Is Not a Politics
Refugees and Cathartic Politics
Sumud
Assembling and Spilling-Over
Corporeal Remains
Countless acts of recognition
Extract, Datafy and Disrupt
Radical Hope in asylum seeking
Being/longing
Mothercraft, statecraft, and subjectivity in the Palestinian intifada
Doing Justice to Intersectionality in Research
Political participation in a Palestinian university
The attractions of accountancy
Becoming and 'Unbecoming' Refugees
Disengagement from politics
Heroic and Tragic Pasts
When "Humanitarianism" Becomes "Development
Martyr bodies in the media
Becoming Refugee in Cairo
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 3 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2026 (2) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |