No path home : humanitarian camps and the grief of displacement / Elizabeth Cullen Dunn.

By:

Dunn, Elizabeth C, 1968-

Publisher: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, [2017]Description: ix, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781501709661
9781501712302

Subject(s):

Additional physical formats: Online version:: No path homeDDC classification:

362.87/83094758 23

LOC classification:

HV640.4.G28 D86 2017

Contents:

The camp and the camp -- War -- Intertext 1: Normal situation -- Chaos -- Nothing -- Intertext 2: Void -- Pressure -- The devil and the authoritarian state -- Intertext 3: The state and the state -- Death -- Intertext 4: Bright objects -- All that remains.

Summary: "For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart. After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as normal citizens in the country where they reside"-- Publisher's Web site.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"For more than 60 million displaced people around the world, humanitarian aid has become a chronic condition. No Path Home describes its symptoms in detail. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn shows how war creates a deeply damaged world in which the structures that allow people to occupy social roles, constitute economic value, preserve bodily integrity, and engage in meaningful daily practice have been blown apart. After the Georgian war with Russia in 2008, Dunn spent sixteen months immersed in the everyday lives of the 28,000 people placed in thirty-six resettlement camps by official and nongovernmental organizations acting in concert with the Georgian government. She reached the conclusion that the humanitarian condition poses a survival problem that is not only biological but also existential. In No Path Home, she paints a moving picture of the ways in which humanitarianism leaves displaced people in limbo, neither in a state of emergency nor able to act as normal citizens in the country where they reside"-- Publisher's Web site.