No Path Home : Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement
No Path Home : Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement
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Author(s): Dunn, Elizabeth
Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen
ISBN No.: 9781501712302
Pages: 268
Year: 201801
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 46.85
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

" No Path Home is an extremely interesting, engaging, and well-written book. Elizabeth Cullen Dunn's fluid and clear prose paints a very evocative picture of life for internally displaced persons as well as presenting a clear theoretical account."--Laura Hammond, SOAS University of London, author of This Place Will Become Home 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.



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