{"product_id":"edges-of-care-living-and-dying-in-no-mans-land-9780226835976","title":"Edges of Care: Living and Dying in No Man's Land","description":"\u003cb\u003eA firsthand look at the\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e lives of those who reside in no man's land--the violence they endure and their immense resilience.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"No man's land\" invokes stretches of barren landscape, twisted barbed wire, desolation, and the devastation of war. But this is not always the reality. According to Noam Leshem in \u003ci\u003eEdges of Care, \u003c\/i\u003ethe term also reveals radical abandonment by the state. From the Northern Sahara to the Amazon rainforests, people around the world find themselves in places that have been stripped of sovereign care. Leshem is committed to defining these spaces and providing a more intimate understanding of this urgent political reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Based on nearly a decade of research in some of the world's most challenging conflict zones, \u003ci\u003eEdges of Care\u003c\/i\u003e offers a profound account of abandoned lives and lands, and how they endure and sometimes thrive once left to fend for themselves. Leshem interrogates no man's land as a site of radical uncaring: abandoned by a sovereign power in a relinquishment of responsibility for the space or anyone inside it. To understand the ramifications of such uncaring, Leshem takes readers through a diverse series of abandoned places, including areas in Palestine, Syria, Colombia, Sudan, and Cyprus. He shows that no man's land is not empty of life, but almost always inhabited and, in fact, often generative of new modes of being. Beautifully written and evocative, \u003ci\u003eEdges of Care\u003c\/i\u003e reveals the unexamined complexities and political dynamics hidden within and around places governed by callous indifference. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNoam Leshem\u003c\/b\u003e is an associate professor of political and cultural geography at Durham University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eLife After Ruin: The Struggles of Israel's Depopulated Arab Spaces\u003c\/i\u003e and is the co-creator of \u003ci\u003ePortraits of No Man's Land, \u003c\/i\u003e a series of visual stories and documentaries produced with Google Arts \u0026amp; Culture in 2019. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Chicago Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51183577334034,"sku":"9780226835976","price":34.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_e0810ee8-f278-4d69-9761-66363d1afbae.jpg?v=1744471914","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/edges-of-care-living-and-dying-in-no-mans-land-9780226835976","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}