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Liquifying Categories in a Palestinian Refugee Camp

May 10, 2022
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Review of “The Best of Hard Times”, by Elizabeth Berk , published at Anthro Book Forum, May 9, 2022 (in English)

Both Gustavo Barbosa and I, as non-native speakers of Arabic educated in the Western liberal tradition, have dedicated portions of our scholarly inquiries to gender and agency, as concepts, lived experiences, words, and metonyms that link all of these. During my fieldwork in Lebanon I, as Barbosa, found myself searching for an Arabic word for agency and curious as to why conversations otherwise held in Arabic often employed the English for both gender and agency. Barbosa delves further into these questions in his The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon, echoing Visweswaran’s (1997: 616) invocation to not mistake the category, the heuristic device, of gender for its reality or realities.

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Dr. Gustavo Barbosa
I’m a Brazilian anthropologist and journalist, with MScs in Anthropology from Museu Nacional/Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro and The London School of Economics and Political Science, and a PhD, also in Anthropology, from the London School of Economics and Political Science. Currently, I’m an Associate Researcher at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Universidade Federal Fluminense (NEOM/UFF), in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
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    March 1, 2023
    The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon.
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    January 3, 2023
    Barbosa, G. (2022). The Best of Hard Times: Palestinian Refugee Masculinities in Lebanon. Syracuse, New York: Syracuse University Press
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