Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"A thoroughly researched, compellingly written, and moving analysis of the political geographies of Palestinian and Syrian refugees in Jordan. Taking the twin lenses of territory and belonging, it critically interrogates dominant theorizations of these ideas, providing political, historical, and ethnographic depth to the analysis. It is an important and politically urgent book."
-- Stuart Elden, University of Warwick
"A masterful account of the impact of displacements in Jordan, Palestine, and Syria. Culcasi theorizes territory as shaped through a sense of geographic belonging at multiple scales outside and beyond the nation-state nexus. A must-read."
-- Reece Jones, author of "White Borders and Nobody Is Protected"
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Displacing Territory is a powerful and deeply sympathetic analysis of displaced Syrians’ and Palestinians’ attachment to their homeland, that territorial imaginary shaped and reshaped by history over the centuries. They all share the sense of physical displacement while carrying their imagined territory, that homeland, in their conscious understanding of their identity and belonging.” -- Dawn Chatty, University of Oxford
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Introduction
Chapter 1: Displacing the Study of Territory
Chapter 2: The International Refugee Regime, Durable Solutions, and Territory
Chapter 3: Territory and Displacement in Jordan
Chapter 4: Pre-imperial and Anti-imperial Territories
Chapter 5: Hybrid Territories
Chapter 6: The State-Territory Nexus
Chapter 7: Refugee Camp Territories
Conclusions
Acknowledgments
Notes
Bibliography
Index
