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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]

Table of Contents:

• 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.

Author/Creator:

Dunn, Elizabeth C., 1968- , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

No path home: humanitarian camps and the grief of displacement [by Dunn, E.C.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: No path home [by Dunn, E.C.] (Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2017 — ISBN 9781501709661; LCCN 2017026508)

Subjects:

Internally displaced persons — Georgia (Republic)

Refugee camps — Georgia (Republic)

Humanitarian assistance — Georgia (Republic)

South Ossetia War, 2008 — Refugees

South Ossetia War (2008)

2008

Humanitarian assistance

Internally displaced persons

Refugees

Refugee camps

Georgia (Republic)

Russia (Federation)

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on: Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 13, 2017).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 255 pages)

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

HV640.4.G28 D86 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781501712517 (electronic book)
1501712519 (electronic book)
9781501712500 [Invalid]
1501712500 [Invalid]
9781501709661 [Invalid]

Library of Congress Control Numbers:

2017027518

OCLC Numbers:

989726898