- 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.
- Format
- Book
- Author/Creator
- Dunn, Elizabeth C., 1968- author.
- Published
- Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017
- Locale
- Georgia (Republic)
- Contents
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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.
- Notes
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
