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Julie Peteet Landscape of Hope and Despair (Paperback)

Description: Further DetailsTitle: Landscape of Hope and DespairCondition: NewEAN: 9780812220704ISBN: 9780812220704Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 07/25/2009Item Height: 229mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 15mmItem Weight: 410gAuthor: Julie PeteetLanguage: EnglishDescription: 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 Peteet explores how Palestinians have dealt with their experience as refugees by focusing attention on how a distinctive Palestinian identity has emerged from and been informed by fifty years of refugee history. Concentrating ethnographic scrutiny on a site-specific experience allows the author to shed light on the mutually constitutive character of place and cultural identification. Palestinian refugee camps are contradictory places: sites of grim despair but also of hope and creativity. Within these cramped spaces, refugees have crafted new worlds of meaning and visions of the possible in politics. In the process, their historical predicament was a point of departure for social action and thus became radically transformed.Beginning with the calamity of 1948, Landscape of Hope and Despair traces the dialectic of place and cultural identification through the initial despair of the 1950s and early 1960s to the tumultuous days of the resistance and the violence of the Lebanese civil war and its aftermath. Most significantly, this study invokes space, place, and identity to construct an alternative to the received national narratives of Palestinian society and history. The moving stories told here form a larger picture of these refugees as a people struggling to recreate their sense of place and identity and add meaning to their surroundings through the use of culture and memory.Country/Region of Manufacture: USBook Series: Ethnography of Political Violence SeriesGenre: Society & CultureTopic: Social Sciences, Law & PoliticsRelease Year: 2009 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.

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Book Title: Landscape of Hope and Despair

Title: Landscape of Hope and Despair

EAN: 9780812220704

ISBN: 9780812220704

Release Date: 07/25/2009

Release Year: 2009

Country/Region of Manufacture: US

Genre: Society & Culture

Topic: Law & Politics

Number of Pages: 280 Pages

Publication Name: Landscape of Hope and Despair : Palestinian Refugee Camps

Language: English

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Subject: Sociology / General, Human Rights, Economic Conditions, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Anthropology / General

Publication Year: 2009

Item Height: 0.8 in

Type: Textbook

Item Weight: 14.5 Oz

Author: Julie Peteet

Item Length: 8.9 in

Subject Area: Political Science, Social Science, Business & Economics

Item Width: 5.9 in

Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Ser.

Format: Trade Paperback

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