Landscape of Hope and Despair Palestinian Refugee Camps Julie Peteet "A book of serious scholarship and theoretical insight that is also a call to do something about this grim situation."--Journal of Palestine Studies "A sophisticated and nuanced study of how Palestinian refugees have negotiated notions of identity, and visions both of their past and their future, amidst various coercive forces inherent to refugee camp life."--American Historical Review Nearly half of the world"s eight million Palestinians are registered refugees, having faced partition and exile. Landscape of Hope and Despair examines this refugee experience in Lebanon through the medium of spatial practices and identity, set against the backdrop of prolonged violence. Julie Peteet explores how Palestinians have dealt with their experience as refugees by focusing attention on how a distinctive Palestinian identity has emerged from and been informed by fifty years of refugee history. Concentrating ethnographic...