Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank

By:

Kareem Rabie

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: Durham: Duke University Press, 2021Description: 263 p., ill., maps; 24 cmISBN:

9781478014096

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Contents:

The site -- Developers -- Image and precedent -- Public urban planning -- Housing shortage and national priority -- Public/private partnership -- Buyers and villagers -- Capital and the shared ideological landscape -- Settlers and the land -- The state, mirroring, and shared legal frameworks.

Summary: "Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited is one of the first books to explore political economy, class, state, and social relations in the contemporary West Bank. It is a materialist ethnography of social change, centered on projects to build large-scale, private housing development. It demonstrates how private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank reoriented Palestine away from national politics towards state-scale economic stability and market building"-- Provided by publisher.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and index.

"Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited is one of the first books to explore political economy, class, state, and social relations in the contemporary West Bank. It is a materialist ethnography of social change, centered on projects to build large-scale, private housing development. It demonstrates how private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank reoriented Palestine away from national politics towards state-scale economic stability and market building"-- Provided by publisher.

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