Ethnographic study by Julie Peteet covers Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, examining how refugees have built social worlds, maintained identity, and organized political resistance in the precarious spaces of the camps over decades of displacement. Peteet analyzes how camp life shaped Palestinian subjectivity, family structure, and political consciousness, while documenting the devastation wrought by Lebanese civil war violence and Israeli military operations on camp communities. Essential for researchers studying Palestinian refugee camps in Lebanon, the social and political life of Palestinians in exile, and the intersection of camp life with the Lebanese civil war and Israeli military operations.
