The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective from Nahr el-Bared CampA free open access ebook is available upon publication. Learn more at www.luminosoa.org. 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. |
Contents
| 1 | |
The Ethnographic Setting | 27 |
Joining Factions | 51 |
Political Faction Membership | 71 |
Aid Discipline and the Structural Effect | 91 |
Physical Representations Factionalism and Party Ideology | 111 |
The Guys Were Doing Something Great the Factions Destroyed | 135 |
Notes | 149 |
| 157 | |
| 167 | |
Other editions - View all
The Endurance of Palestinian Political Factions: An Everyday Perspective ... Perla Issa Limited preview - 2021 |
Common terms and phrases
Abu Muhammad Ahali Ahmad anniversary Arabic asked became Beddawi camp Beirut brother camp residents camps in Lebanon chapter created dabka DFLP enter entities everyday explained factional affiliation factional membership factions appeared Fadi family’s Fatah al-Intifada Fatah al-Islam father felt fighters friends Hamas highlighted husband initial inside international NGO Islamic Jihad Israeli Jabha joined factions Kortam leadership Lebanese army Lebanese civil war Lebanese government Lebanon Lina lives looking Mahmud Mariam member of Fatah military months Nadia Nahr el-Bared camp nature of factions needed networks old camp organization Palestine Palestinian political factions Palestinian refugees participants party ideology people’s Perla Issa personal relations PFLP Popular Committee practices protesters Rabieh Rajiin refugee camps relationship Sayigh Shadi Shatila Sheikh Hassan social started story structure student Talal family thawra tion told Tripoli trust Um Muhammad UNRWA wanted young Palestinians