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Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Lisa Taraki
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Description for Living Palestine: Family Survival, Resistance, and Mobility under Occupation (Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East)
Hardcover. Takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. This book posits that household dynamics cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present. Editor(s): Taraki, Lisa. Series: Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East. Num Pages: 312 pages, 45 tables, index, notes. BIC Classification: 1FBP; JHMC; JHMP; JPWS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 156. .
This groundbreaking volume takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. Contributors raise critical questions about such issues as tradition vs. modernity and the socio-cultural consequences of emigration. Living Palestine posits that household dynamics (i.e., kin-based marriage, fertility decisions, children's education, and living arrangements) cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present. Likewise, that family strategies for survival and social mobility under occupation are swept up in the tide of history that engulfs the world in ... Read more
This groundbreaking volume takes an insightful look at how entire households, families, and individuals "cope," negotiate their lives, and plan to achieve goals in Occupied Palestine. Contributors raise critical questions about such issues as tradition vs. modernity and the socio-cultural consequences of emigration. Living Palestine posits that household dynamics (i.e., kin-based marriage, fertility decisions, children's education, and living arrangements) cannot be fully grasped unless linked to the traumas of the past and worries of the present. Likewise, that family strategies for survival and social mobility under occupation are swept up in the tide of history that engulfs the world in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Condition
New
Series
Gender, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East
Number of Pages
328
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780815631071
SKU
V9780815631071
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About Lisa Taraki
Lisa Taraki is associate professor of sociology at Birzeit University. She has contributed to numerous publications and is the editor of Palestinian Society in the West
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