Occupied lives : maintaining integrity in a Palestinian refugee camp in the West Bank / Nina Gren.
Intense media coverage of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict does not necessarily enhance one's knowledge or understanding of the Palestinians; on the contrary they are more often than not reduced to either victims or perpetrators. Similarly, while many academic studies devote considerable effort to a...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Cairo ; New York :
The American University in Cairo Press,
2015.
|
| Subjects: | |
| Physical Description: | xxiii, 225 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction. Focus and purpose ; Being camp refugees under violent occupation ; Integrity and constrained agency ; Why a focus on everyday life? ; 'Normality' in a violent and prolonged refugee situation ; Social continuity : new homes and reestablished family lines ; A moral crisis on repeat ; Doing fieldwork in Dheisheh ; Overview of chapters
- Dheisheh as a social and political space. The order of things in Dheisheh ; The Bethlehem area ; The dynamica of lingering villages ; Earlier political affiliations and activism in Dheisheh ; Political disengagement at the time of fieldwork ; Concluding remarks
- Living with violence and insecurity. Experiencing ongoing crisis ; The presence of extraordinary deaths ; Extending the limits of normality ; Remaining patient and hopeful ; Negotiating trust ; Concluding remarks
- The making of new homes. To build a house is to make a life ; Imprisonment delaying life ; Children as normality, resistance, and recovery ; Reframing home to a political stage ; Getting by together ; Concluding remarks
- Reconstituting a moral order. A chain of catastrophic events ; The camp as a moral community ; Palextinian moral superiority and the immoral others ; Moral contamination ; A shaken political morality ; Concluding remarks
- Conclusion. Maintaing integrity in the face of violation ; Struggling against temporariness ; Having a life or being a true patriot? ; How may one remain a political subject? ; Existence and politics.