GRASS-ROOTS COMMEMORATIONS: REMEMBERING THE LAND IN THE CAMPS OF LEBANON

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" GRASS-ROOTS COMMEMORATIONS: REMEMBERING THE LAND IN THE CAMPS OF LEBANON "
L. Khalili

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	818384
Doc. No	:	LA97240
Call No	:	‭10.1525/jps.2004.34.1.6‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	L. Khalili
Title & Author	:	GRASS-ROOTS COMMEMORATIONS: REMEMBERING THE LAND IN THE CAMPS OF LEBANON [Article]\ L. Khalili
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Palestine Studies
Date	:	2004
Volume/ Issue Number	:	34/1
Page No	:	6-22
Abstract	:	The Oslo negotiations—and the specter of a Palestinian renunciation of the right of return—greatly increased the insecurities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The new uncertainties in turn triggered the emergence in the refugee camps of commemorative practices different from those previously sponsored by the Palestinian leadership. The new forms of commemoration, centered on the villages left behind in Palestine in 1948 and including popular ethnographies, memory museums, naming practices, and history-telling using new technologies, have become implicit vehicles of opposition and a means of asserting the refugees' membership in the Palestinian polity. Beyond reflecting nostalgia for a lost world, the practices have become the basis of the political identity of the younger generations and the motivation for their political mobilization.
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1525/jps.2004.34.1.6‬