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Landscape of Hope and Despair
Julie Peteet
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Description for Landscape of Hope and Despair
Paperback. Nearly half of the eight million Palestinians are registered refugees. Landscape of Hope and Despair explores this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity set against the backdrop of prolonged violence. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 280 pages, 18 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBP; JFFD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 227 x 153 x 17. Weight in Grams: 424.
Nearly 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 ... Read more
Nearly 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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
276
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2023
Series
The Ethnography of Political Violence Series
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812220704
SKU
V9780812220704
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About Julie Peteet
Julie Peteet is Professor and Chair of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Louisville.
Reviews for Landscape of Hope and Despair
"A book of serious scholarship and theoretical insight that is also a call to do something about this grim situation."-Journal of Palestine Studies "A sophisticated and nuanced study of how Palestinian refugees have negotiated notions of identity, and visions both of their past and their future, amidst various coercive forces inherent to refugee camp life."-American Historical Review