Landscape of Hope and Despair : : Palestinian Refugee Camps / / Julie Peteet.

Nearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set against the backdrop of prolonged violence. Julie...

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Place / Publishing House:Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2011]
©2005
Year of Publication:2011
Language:English
Series:The Ethnography of Political Violence
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 18 illus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Chapter One. Introduction: Palestinian Refugees
  • Chapter Two. Prelude to Displacement: Producing and Enacting Knowledge
  • Chapter Three. Aid and the Construction of the Refugee
  • Chapter Four. Producing Place, Spatializing Identity, 1948-68
  • Chapter 5. Landscape of Hope and Despair
  • Chapter Six. The Geography of Terror and Reconfinement
  • Conclusion: Refugee Camps and the Wall
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index
  • Acknowledgments