{"product_id":"time-and-power-in-azraq-melissa-gatter-9781617970979","title":"Time and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp: A Nine-To-Five Emergency","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2024 ALIXA NAFF PRIZE IN MIGRATION STUDIES \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe politics and governance of Jordan's Azraq camp for Syrian refugees\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAzraq refugee camp, built in 2014 and host to forty thousand refugees, is one of two official humanitarian refugee camps for Syrian refugees in Jordan. \u003ci\u003eTime and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp\u003c\/i\u003e 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 for aid workers. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBased on ethnographic fieldwork, carried out during 2017-2018, the book challenges the perceptions of Azraq as the 'ideal' refugee camp. Melissa Gatter argues that the camp operates as a 'nine-to-five emergency' where mundane bureaucratic procedures serve to sustain a power system in which refugees are socialized to endure a cynical wait-both for everyday services and for their return--without expectations for a better outcome. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eTime and Power in Azraq Refugee Camp\u003c\/i\u003e 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 in the present, but the past, near future, and far future. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFar from an 'ideal' camp, Azraq and its politics of time constitute a cruel reality in which a power system meant to aid refugees is one that suppresses, foreclosing futures that it is supposed to preserve.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Melissa Gatter\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1617970972\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781617970979\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e American University in Cairo Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/07\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 200\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.20w x 0.80d","brand":"Melissa Gatter","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44073036939519,"sku":"9781617970979","price":64.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58c734b1-bac0-40e6-8ffc-02e1d786718a.jpg?v=1685445428","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/time-and-power-in-azraq-melissa-gatter-9781617970979","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}