Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp - Softcover

Rosenfeld, Maya

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0804749876 ISBN 13: 9780804749879

Publisher: Stanford University Press, 2004

Synopsis

Confronting the Occupation is a study of work, education, political-national resistance, family, and community relations in a Palestinian refugee camp under conditions of Israeli military occupation. It is based on extended field research carried out by an Israeli sociologist-anthropologist in Dheisheh camp, south of Bethlehem, between 1992 and 1996. Emphasis is placed on how men and women, families, and the local refugee community confront the occupation regime as they seek livelihoods, invest in the education of younger generations, and mount a political and often militant struggle. In the process, men lose their jobs in the Israeli labor market, women, old and young, enter the workforce, university graduates are compelled to migrate to the Gulf, and political cadres challenge harsh prison circumstances by establishing their own comprehensive counterorder. While directed against the occupation, patterns of coping and resistance adopted by Dheishehians introduced tensions and conflicts into family life, furthering the transformation of gender and generational relationships.

About this title

From the Back Cover

“...Due to its empirical richness and wealth of details, it provides much food for thought.”—Middle East Journal
“Confronting the Occupation is important for its keen and thorough examination of a complex subject. Anthropologists of work will value its detailed depiction of a world of work in the process of inventing itself within an environment of extreme obstacles. The book is also, for similar reasons, of special value to anthropologists of politics, economics, and sociocultural change.”—Anthropology of Work Review

About the Author

Maya Rosenfeld teaches in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Institute, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Edition details

• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0804749876
• ISBN 13: 9780804749879
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 408