Lectio Praecursoria: Negotiating Futures in Palestinian Refugee Camps: Spatiotemporal Trajectories of a Refugee Nation

Abstract

The seventy-three years of exile have molded the life in Palestinian refugee camps. In my dissertation, I explore the conditions created by this long history in order to discuss the futures that those currently living in the refugee camps envision for themselves. This Lectio Præcursoria is an introduction to both the research process and the ways the futures emerge in the vulnerable conditions of Palestinian exile. Keywords: Palestine, Palestinian refugees, future, refugee camps, multi-sited ethnography