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The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions
An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared Camp
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Perla Issa
Language:
English
Published/Copyright:
2021
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The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions is an ethnographic study of Palestinian political factions in Lebanon through an immersion in daily home life. Perla Issa asks how political factions remain the center of political life in the Palestinian camps in the face of mounting criticism. Through an examination of the daily, mundane practices of refugees in Nahr el-Bared camp in particular, this book shows how intimate, interpersonal, and kin-based relations are transformed into political networks and offers a fresh analysis of how those networks are in turn metamorphosed into political structures. By providing a detailed and intimate account of this process, this book reveals how factions are produced and reproduced in everyday life despite widespread condemnation.
The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions is an ethnographic study of Palestinian political factions in Lebanon through an immersion in daily home life. Perla Issa asks how political factions remain the center of political life in the Palestinian camps in the face of mounting criticism. Through an examination of the daily, mundane practices of refugees in Nahr el-Bared camp in particular, this book shows how intimate, interpersonal, and kin-based relations are transformed into political networks and offers a fresh analysis of how those networks are in turn metamorphosed into political structures. By providing a detailed and intimate account of this process, this book reveals how factions are produced and reproduced in everyday life despite widespread condemnation.
Author / Editor information
Issa Perla :
Perla Issa is a researcher at the Institute for Palestine Studies in Beirut, Lebanon.
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Frontmatter
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Contents
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List of Illustrations
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Foreword
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Acknowledgments
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Note on Transliteration
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1. Introduction: “Empty Buildings”
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2. “The Nest of the Crazy”: The Ethnographic Setting
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3. “We Drank the Jabha with Our Mothers’ Milk”: Joining Factions
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4. “We Are the Factions”: Political Faction Membership
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5. “Factions Are Like Shops”: Aid, Discipline, and the Structural Effect
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6. “Factions Are Forced Husbands”: Physical Representations, Factionalism, and Party Ideology
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7. Conclusion: “The Guys Were Doing Something Great, the Factions Destroyed It”
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Notes
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Bibliography
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Index
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eBook published on:
August 17, 2021
eBook ISBN:
9780520380608
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