Life Lived in Relief

Ilana Feldman is Professor of Anthropology, History, and International Affairs at George Washington University. She is the author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917–1967 and Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule.

"Feldman reminds us, in the context of the current migrant crisis, Palestinian refugees have much to teach us about a migrant politics of presence. This is an exceptional book. It represents an invaluable contribution to scholarship on Palestine, humanitarianism, displacement, and refugee politics from a leading ethnographer of Palestinian life."

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsNote on TransliterationChapter 1 • Punctuated Humanitarianism and Discordant Politicspart onethe humanitarian situationChapter 2 • No Exit: Politics and Refugee StatusChapter 3 • Oscillating Needs and the Aid ApparatusChapter 4 • Conflicted Positions: Compromised Action andSuspicious Relationspart twothe humanitarian conditionChapter 5 • The Politics of Living as a RefugeeChapter 6 • Living and Dying at Humanitarianism’s LimitsChapter 7 • Non-humanitarian Futures?Chapter 8 • Making Livable Lives in Worlds in CrisisHistorical TimelineNotesBibliographyIndex