Description
Book SynopsisThrough a detailed ethnographic account of the everyday lives of detainees' wives in the occupied Palestinian Territory, No Place for Grief reveals the ways in which the normalization of these women's distress is intrinsically and painfully linked to the collective struggle for freedom from the occupation.
Trade Review"
No Place for Grief is simply breathtaking. This harrowing ethnography of lives barred from hope and yet seeking an ordinary existence in occupied Palestine is permeated by political urgency and a captivating poetic hesitancy. Lotte Buch Segal's intense listening and probing analysis brings these characters and their demolished households out of obscurity, letting them shatter and recast our understanding of political violence, chronic suffering, and human endurance in the twenty-first century." * João Biehl, author of
Vita: Life in a Zone of Social Abandonment *
"Imaginatively conceived and written with great compassion and grace,
No Place for Grief makes a rich contribution to our understanding of social suffering and the folding of violence into everyday life." * Veena Das, Johns Hopkins University *
"Lotte Buch Segal's
No Place for Grief is not just another addition to stories of suffering and trauma among the Palestinians-rather, it shows how the relation between gender and violence is paramount to the way in which political violence might be understood in long, drawn-out conditions of war and occupation. As such,
No Place for Grief is relevant not only to psychologists and anthropologists, but also to global and public health readers who seek to understand what life is like in a context of protracted and ongoing exposure to political violence." * Rita Giacaman, Birzeit University, Palestine *
Table of ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Grammar of Suffering in Occupied Palestine
Chapter 2. Domestic Uncanniness
Chapter 3. Enduring Presents
Chapter 4. On Hardship and Closeness
Chapter 5. Solitude in Marriage
Chapter 6. Enduring the Ordinary
Conclusion
Notes
References
Index
Acknowledgments
