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Media type:
E-Article
Title:
GRASS-ROOTSCOMMEMORATIONS: REMEMBERING THELAND IN THECAMPS OFLEBANON
Contributor:
Khalili, Laleh
imprint:
University of California Press, 2004
Published in:Journal of Palestine Studies
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1525/jps.2004.34.1.6
ISSN:
1533-8614;
0377-919X
Origination:
Footnote:
Description:
<p>The Oslo negotiations—and the specter of a Palestinian renunciation of the right of return—greatly increased the insecurities of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon. The new uncertainties in turn triggered the emergence in the refugee camps of commemorative practices different from those previously sponsored by the Palestinian leadership. The new forms of commemoration, centered on the villages left behind in Palestine in 1948 and including popular ethnographies, memory museums, naming practices, and history-telling using new technologies, have become implicit vehicles of opposition and a means of asserting the refugees' membership in the Palestinian polity. Beyond reflecting nostalgia for a lost world, the practices have become the basis of the political identity of the younger generations and the motivation for their political mobilization.</p>