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Porträtt Nina Gren. Foto: Emma Lord.

Nina Gren

Universitetslektor

Porträtt Nina Gren. Foto: Emma Lord.

Occupied Lives : Maintaining Integrity in a Palestinian Refugee Camp in the West Bank

Författare

  • Nina Gren

Summary, in English

Media coverage of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict does not necessarily enhance one’s knowledge or understanding of the Palestinians; on the contrary they are often reduced to either victims or perpetrators. Similarly, while many academic studies devote considerable effort to analyzing the political situation in the occupied territories, there have been few sophisticated case studies of Palestinian refugees living under Israeli rule. An ethnographic study of Palestinian refugees in Dheisheh refugee camp, Occupied Lives looks closely at the attempts of the camp inhabitants to survive and bounce back from the profound effects of political violence and Israeli military occupation. Based on the author’s extensive fieldwork conducted inside the camp, this study examines the daily efforts of camp inhabitants to secure survival and meaning during the period of the al-Aqsa Intifada. It argues that the political developments and experiences of extensive violence at the time, which left most refugees outside of direct activism, caused many camp inhabitants to disengage from traditional forms of politics. Instead, they became involved in alternative practices aimed at maintaining their sense of social worth and integrity, by focusing on processes to establish a ‘normal’ order, social continuity, and morality. Nina Gren explores these processes and the ambiguities and dilemmas that necessarily arose from them and the ways in which the political and the existential are often intertwined in Dheisheh.

Avdelning/ar

  • Centrum för Mellanösternstudier (CMES)
  • MECW: The Middle East in the Contemporary World

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Bok

Förlag

American University in Cairo Press

Ämne

  • Other Social Sciences not elsewhere specified
  • Social Anthropology

Nyckelord

  • Palestinians
  • Israeli-Palestinian conflict
  • Occupied territories
  • Refugees
  • Camps
  • Ethnographic study
  • Social anthropology
  • Political violence
  • Occupation

Status

Published

Projekt

  • The Legacy of Al Nakba: Politics and Everyday Life in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 9789774166952