{"product_id":"life-lived-in-relief-9780520299634","title":"Life Lived in Relief","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePalestinian refugees' experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community's engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future conditions. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic field research, Life Lived in Relief offers a comprehensive account of the Palestinian refugee experience living with humanitarian assistance in many spaces and across multiple generations. By exploring the complex world constituted through humanitarianism, and how that world is experienced by the many people who inhabit it, Feldman asks pressing questions about what it means for a temporary status to become chronic. How do people in these conditions assert the value of their lives? What does the Palestinian situation tell us about the world? Life Lived in Relief is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of hum\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Feldman reminds us, in the context of the current migrant crisis, Palestinian refugees have much to teach us about a migrant politics of presence. This is an exceptional book. It represents an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Palestine, humanitarianism, displacement, and refugee politics from a leading ethnographer of Palestinian life.\" * Journal of Palestine Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of Illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Note on Transliteration\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 1 • Punctuated Humanitarianism and Discordant Politics\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e part one\u003cbr\u003e the humanitarian situation\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 2 • No Exit: Politics and Refugee Status\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 3 • Oscillating Needs and the Aid Apparatus\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 4 • Conflicted Positions: Compromised Action and\u003cbr\u003e Suspicious Relations\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e part two\u003cbr\u003e the humanitarian condition\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5 • The Politics of Living as a Refugee\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6 • Living and Dying at Humanitarianism’s Limits\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 7 • Non-humanitarian Futures?\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 8 • Making Livable Lives in Worlds in Crisis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Historical Timeline\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49402911621463,"sku":"9780520299634","price":22.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780520299634.jpg?v=1730481821","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/life-lived-in-relief-9780520299634","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}