LEADER 04475nam 22007455 450 001 9910812872503321 005 20240418022414.0 010 $a1-283-21079-7 010 $a9786613210791 010 $a0-8122-0031-4 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812200317 035 $a(CKB)2550000000051206 035 $a(OCoLC)759158258 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10492018 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000649136 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11404380 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000649136 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10601562 035 $a(PQKB)10960579 035 $a(DE-B1597)448889 035 $a(OCoLC)979630680 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812200317 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441561 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000051206 100 $a20190708d2011 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLandscape of Hope and Despair $ePalestinian Refugee Camps /$fJulie Peteet 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aPhiladelphia :$cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press,$d[2011] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (277 p.) 225 0 $aThe Ethnography of Political Violence 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8122-2070-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 239-252) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tPreface --$tChapter One. Introduction: Palestinian Refugees --$tChapter Two. Prelude to Displacement: Producing and Enacting Knowledge --$tChapter Three. Aid and the Construction of the Refugee --$tChapter Four. Producing Place, Spatializing Identity, 1948-68 --$tChapter 5. Landscape of Hope and Despair --$tChapter Six. The Geography of Terror and Reconfinement --$tConclusion: Refugee Camps and the Wall --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aNearly half of the world's eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set against the backdrop of prolonged violence. Julie Peteet explores how Palestinians have dealt with their experience as refugees by focusing attention on how a distinctive Palestinian identity has emerged from and been informed by fifty years of refugee history. Concentrating ethnographic scrutiny on a site-specific experience allows the author to shed light on the mutually constitutive character of place and cultural identification. Palestinian refugee camps are contradictory places: sites of grim despair but also of hope and creativity. Within these cramped spaces, refugees have crafted new worlds of meaning and visions of the possible in politics. In the process, their historical predicament was a point of departure for social action and thus became radically transformed. Beginning with the calamity of 1948, Landscape of Hope and Despair traces the dialectic of place and cultural identification through the initial despair of the 1950's and early 1960's to the tumultuous days of the resistance and the violence of the Lebanese civil war and its aftermath. Most significantly, this study invokes space, place, and identity to construct an alternative to the received national narratives of Palestinian society and history. The moving stories told here form a larger picture of these refugees as a people struggling to recreate their sense of place and identity and add meaning to their surroundings through the use of culture and memory. 410 0$aEthnography of political violence. 606 $aRefugee camps$zLebanon 606 $aPalestinian Arabs$zLebanon$xSocial conditions 606 $aPalestinian Arabs$zLebanon$xEconomic conditions 610 $aAfrican Studies. 610 $aAnthropology. 610 $aAsian Studies. 610 $aFolklore. 610 $aHuman Rights. 610 $aLaw. 610 $aLinguistics. 610 $aMiddle Eastern Studies. 615 0$aRefugee camps 615 0$aPalestinian Arabs$xSocial conditions. 615 0$aPalestinian Arabs$xEconomic conditions. 676 $a362.87/089/927405692 686 $aML 9340$qSEPA$2rvk 700 $aPeteet$b Julie$01016141 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812872503321 996 $aLandscape of Hope and Despair$94125607 997 $aUNINA