The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions : : An Everyday Perspective From Nahr el-Bared Camp / / Perla Issa.

A free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org.The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions is an ethnographic study of Palestinian political factions in Lebanon through an immersion in daily home life. Perla Issa asks how sometimes unpopular and discredit...

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Place / Publishing House:Berkeley, CA : : University of California Press, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:New Directions in Palestinian Studies ; 3
Physical Description:1 online resource (228 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration
  • 1. Introduction: "Empty Buildings"
  • 2. "The Nest of the Crazy": The Ethnographic Setting
  • 3. "We Drank the Jabha with Our Mothers' Milk": Joining Factions
  • 4. "We Are the Factions": Political Faction Membership
  • 5. "Factions Are Like Shops": Aid, Discipline, and the Structural Effect
  • 6. "Factions Are Forced Husbands": Physical Representations, Factionalism, and Party Ideology
  • 7. Conclusion: "The Guys Were Doing Something Great, the Factions Destroyed It"
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index