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Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A virtual book talk with Dr. Melissa Gatter
Watch a virtual book discussion of Time and Power In Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-To-Five Emergency by Dr. Melissa Gatter, Lecturer in International Development, University of Sussex, in conversation with Dr. Patricia Ward, Postdoctoral Research Associate, Technische Universität Dresden.
This book investigates the relationship between time and power in Azraq, asking how a politics of time shapes, limits, or enables everyday life for the displaced and aid work. Based on 14 months of ethnographic fieldwork (2017-2018), the book complicates perceptions of Azraq as the ‘ideal’ refugee camp through an investigation of aid worker and refugee perspectives on time. It examines how Azraq’s power structures have established a monopoly over time within the camp’s borders. It analyzes the role of street-level aid workers within Azraq’s bureaucracy as both shapers of policy but also subject to the power system and its particular temporalities. The book also explores how refugees navigate this system, both in the day-to-day and over years, by evaluating various layers of waiting as they affect refugee perceptions of time in the camp – not only the present, but the past, near future, and far future.
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This event was organized in collaboration with The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL):
The Council for British Research in the Levant (CBRL) is a learned society working to advance public education on the Levant through promoting and disseminating research in the humanities, social sciences and related subjects. We work on and in Jordan, Palestine, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and Cyprus.
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