Hybrid Political Order and the Politics of Uncertainty: Refugee Governance in Lebanon
In: Routledge Research in Ignorance Studies
Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: institutional ambiguity and the politics of uncertainty: a new perspective on refugee governance -- 1 The Lebanese state: twilight institutions and the making of hybrid order -- 2 The governance of Syrian refugees in Lebanon: no-policy-policy and formal informality -- 3 Governing Syrian 'informal tented settlements' in Lebanon: co-opted shawishes, elusive permissions, and the specter of eviction -- 4 The governance of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon: permanent temporariness and the state of exception -- 5 Governing Lebanon's Palestinian 'gatherings': forsaken settlements, disowned committees, and looming displacement -- 6 Knowledge and power revisited: the politics of uncertainty as maintaining, feigning, and imposing 'ignorance' -- Reflections and contributions: critically studying refugeeness, governance, and strategic ambiguity in Lebanon and beyond -- Index.