Assembling and Spilling-Over: Towards an 'Ethnography of Cement' in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research

Volumn 39, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 200-217

  Abourahme, Nasser ^a  

^a Columbia University ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Assemblage; Camp; Concrete; New materialities; Palestinian refugee camps; Political subjectivity; Refugee studies; Representation

Indexed keywords

CULTURAL GEOGRAPHY; CULTURAL LANDSCAPE; CULTURAL RELATIONS; IMMIGRANT POPULATION; MATERIAL CULTURE; REFUGEE; SOVEREIGNTY;

PALESTINE;

EID: 84931574310     PISSN: 03091317     EISSN: 14682427     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1468-2427.12155     Document Type: Article

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