TY  - BOOK
AU  - Kareem Rabie
TI  - Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank
SN  - 9781478014096
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Economic development projects
KW  - West Bank
KW  - Urbanization
KW  - Housing development
KW  - Economics
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - Social conditions
KW  - Politics and government
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-254) and index; 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
N2  - "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"--
ER  -