292 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
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From the refugee camps of the Lebanon to the relative prosperity of life in the USA, the Palestinian diaspora has been dispersed across the world. In this pioneering study, Helena Lindholm Schulz examines the ways in which Palestinian identity has been formed in the diaspora through constant longing for a homeland lost. In so doing, the author advances the debate on the relationship between... Read more
1. Between Nationalism and Globalism 2. Catastrophe and Beyond 3. Palestinians in the World 4. Stateless, Rootless, Homeless: Meanings of Homeland in Exile 5. Resistance and Return: The Politics of Homeland 6. Right of Return: The Refugees and the Collapse of the Peace Process 7. New Homes and Identities in Motion 8. Coming Home? 9. Nationalism Through Transnationalism
Biography
Schulz, Helena Lindholm
'Schulz's The Palestinian Diaspora unpicks the complex consequences of 50 years of Palestinian exile on the self-consciousness of refugees ... Schulz assists the necessary process of rearticulating Palestinianism in terms more subtle than the nationalist narrative built by the PLO could ever allow for it.' - Tribune
