Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics

Palestinian refugees’ experience of protracted displacement is among the lengthiest in history. In her breathtaking new book, Ilana Feldman explores this community’s engagement with humanitarian assistance over a seventy-year period and their persistent efforts to alter their present and future conditions. Based on extensive archival and ethnographic field research, Life Lived in Relief offers a comprehensive account of the Palestinian refugee experience living with humanitarian assistance in many spaces and across multiple generations. By exploring the complex world constituted through humanitarianism, and how that world is experienced by the many people who inhabit it, Feldman asks pressing questions about what it means for a temporary status to become chronic. How do people in these conditions assert the value of their lives? What does the Palestinian situation tell us about the world? Life Lived in Relief is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of humanitarianism today.  

• I Will Not Grow Downward - Memoir Of An Eritrean Refugee: My Long And Perilous Flight From Africa's Hermit Kingdom (Dreams of Freedom)
• The Refugees
• Real Queer?: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Refugees in the Canadian Refugee Apparatus
• Making Refuge: Somali Bantu Refugees and Lewiston, Maine (Global Insecurities)
• They Poured Fire on Us From the Sky: The True Story of Three Lost Boys from Sudan
• Salt Houses
• The Need to Help: The Domestic Arts of International Humanitarianism
• Leaks, Hacks, and Scandals: Arab Culture in the Digital Age (Translation/Transnation)
• Casualties of Care
• Back Stories: U.S. News Production and Palestinian Politics