{"product_id":"life-lived-in-relief-humanitarian-predicaments-and-palestinian-refugee-politics","title":"Life Lived in Relief: Humanitarian Predicaments and Palestinian Refugee Politics","description":"\u003cp\u003ePalestinian 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, \u003ci\u003eLife Lived in Relief\u003c\/i\u003e 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? \u003ci\u003eLife Lived in Relief\u003c\/i\u003e is essential reading for anyone interested in the history and practice of humanitarianism today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIlana Feldman \u003c\/b\u003eis Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eGoverning Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917\u003c\/i\u003e- \u003ci\u003e1967\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePolice Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule. \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e2018\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of California Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50897405608221,"sku":"9780520299634","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0511\/5897\/files\/Screenshot2026-01-29at5.14.37pm.png?v=1769724889","url":"https:\/\/www.middleeastbooks.com\/products\/life-lived-in-relief-humanitarian-predicaments-and-palestinian-refugee-politics","provider":"Middle East Books and More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}