"In this first comprehensive study of the oldest refugee camps in the world, Ilana Feldman provides a compelling analysis of displaced Palestinians' politics of living. Her historical and ethnographic inquiry shows the ambiguities of international aid and the hardships as well as expectations of people still deeply affected, seventy years after the nakba, by the consequences of their expulsion from their land. Life Lived in Relief is destined to become a reference for anyone interested in the Middle East."--Didier Fassin, author of Humanitarian Reason: A Moral History of the Present
"Life Lived in Relief is an ambitious book by one of the foremost scholars of humanitarianism and Palestine. Feldman approaches humanitarianism in a completely novel way, analyzing the way one people, the Palestinians, have lived across multiple generations under a humanitarian regime. This is a formidable work."--Lori Allen, author of The Rise and Fall of Human Rights: Cynicism and Politics in Occupied Palestine "With exemplary care and commitment, Ilana Feldman examines the longue durée of temporary solutions and the persistent predicament of Palestinian refugees. Life Lived in Relief provides the definitive account of this defining humanitarian experience." --Peter Redfield, author of Life in Crisis: The Ethical Journey of Doctors Without BordersIlana 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.