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No Path Home: Humanitarian Camps and the Grief of Displacement

Contributor(s): Dunn, Elizabeth Cullen (Author)

ISBN: 9781501712302

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Pub Date: January 15, 2018

Dewey: 362.87830947

LCCN: 2017026508

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Maps

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.61" H x 9.00" L x 6.00" W ( 0.87 lbs) 268 pages

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Description: 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...

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A heart-wrenching, sophisticated, yet readable analysis of the experiences of Georgians internally displaced by the 2008 war with Russia.... [Dunn] unpacks with great nuance how forces of capitalist neoliberalism and Georgian and Russian authoritarianism have structured the humanitarian system along various bureaucratic, economic, and political axes that reward humanitarian action no matter how poorly it fits people's needs.

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