Memories for the Return?: Remembering the Nakba by the First Generation of Palestinian Refugees in Syria
The 1948 Nakba has, in light of the 1993 Oslo Accords and Palestinian refugee activists' mobilisation around the right of return, taken on a new-found centrality and importance in Palestinian refugee communities. Closely-related to this, members of the Generation of Palestine', the only i...
| Published in: | Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh Univ. Press
[2017]
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| In: |
Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Syria
/ Palestinian refugee
/ Israel
/ State
/ Founding
/ Palestinian Arabs
/ Expulsion
/ Collective memory
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| RelBib Classification: | KBL Near East and North Africa ZB Sociology ZC Politics in general |
| Further subjects: | B
Communities of Nakba Memory
B Right of Return Movement B Memory B Palestinian Nakba, 1947-1948 B Guardians of Memory B Oslo Accords B Syria B Palestine B generation of Palestine |
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| Summary: | The 1948 Nakba has, in light of the 1993 Oslo Accords and Palestinian refugee activists' mobilisation around the right of return, taken on a new-found centrality and importance in Palestinian refugee communities. Closely-related to this, members of the Generation of Palestine', the only individuals who can recollect Nakba memories, have come to be seen as the guardians of memories that are eventually to reclaim the homeland. These historical, social and political realities are deeply rooted in the ways in which the few remaining members of the generation of Palestine recollect 1948. Moreover, as members of communities that were destroyed in Palestine, and whose common and temporal and spatial frameworks were non-linearly constituted anew in Syria, one of the multiples meanings of the Nakba today can be found in the way the refugee communities perceive and define this generation. |
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| ISSN: | 2054-1996 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Journal of Holy Land and Palestine Studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3366/hlps.2017.0164 |