Ibn al-Mukhayem: esclusione e soggettività dei rifugiati palestinesi in Cisgiordania

Abstract

‘The camp’ is a heterogeneity of forms of housing/confinement located in extremely various contexts and managed by dissimilar institutions. The refugee camps are a characteristic place of modernity and impure, exceeding the national order of things. The camp and its inhabitants are a chimera, living matter that escapes the representation of the real as rational: in fluid becoming, crossed by the bodies that shape it but a place where one lives in a state of liminality for uncertain time. The central question posed by the text revolves around the living conditions of the refugee camp in relation to the 'outside'. Through a comparative ethnography I will try to trace some lines of continuity and discontinuity between the 'inside' and the 'outside' of the space of a refugee camp in the West Bank, in relation to the existential conditions linked to land, expropriation, and living within which the possibilities of discourses, identities, techniques, knowledge and forms of politics are articulated and intersect.