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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787786003321

Autore

Allan Diana

Titolo

Refugees of the Revolution [[electronic resource] ] : Experiences of Palestinian Exile

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Palo Alto, : Stanford University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8047-8895-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (328 p.)

Collana

Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and I

Disciplina

305.892

305.892/7405692

305.8927405692

Soggetti

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 -- Refugees -- Lebanon

Palestinian Arabs -- Lebanon -- Social conditions

Refugee camps -- Lebanon

Refugees, Palestinian Arab -- Lebanon -- Social conditions

Sha ̄ti ̄la ̄ (Refugee camp)

Refugees, Palestinian Arab - Social conditions - Lebanon

Palestinian Arabs - Social conditions - Lebanon

Israel-Arab War, 1948-1949 - Refugees - Lebanon

Refugee camps - Lebanon

Social Welfare & Social Work

Social Sciences

Social Welfare & Social Work - General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Note on Transliteration and Translations; Introduction; 1. Commemorative Economies; 2. Economic Subjectivity and Everyday Solidarities; 3. Stealing Power; 4. Dream Talk, Futurity, and Hope; 5. Futures Elsewhere; 6. Many Returns; Conclusion: The Roots of Exile; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Some sixty-five years after 750,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled from their homeland, the popular conception of Palestinian refugees still emphasizes their fierce commitment to exercising their ""right of



return."" Exile has come to seem a kind of historical amber, preserving refugees in a way of life that ended abruptly with ""the catastrophe"" of 1948 and their camps-inhabited now for four generations-as mere zones of waiting. While reducing refugees to symbols of steadfast single-mindedness has been politically expedient to both sides of the Arab-Israeli conflict it comes at a tr