TY  - BOOK
AU  - Christopher Harker
TI  - Spacing Debt: Obligations, Violence, and Endurance in Ramallah, Palestine
SN  - 9781478010968
PY  - 2020///
CY  - Durham
PB  - Duke University Press
KW  - Consumer credit
KW  - West Bank
KW  - Ramallah
KW  - Palestinian Arabs
KW  - Economic conditions
KW  - 21st century
KW  - Debt
KW  - Palestine
KW  - Political aspects
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-184) and index; Debt/Space/Ramallah. -- A History Of Debt In Palestine. -- Theorizing Debt Space. -- Thinking Debt Through The City. -- Debt And Obligatory Subjectivity. -- Debt, Violence And Financial Crisis Ordinariness. -- Politics As Endurance. -- Dealing With Debt?
N2  - "In Spacing Debt Christopher Harker demonstrates that financial debt is as much a spatial phenomenon as it is a temporal and social one. Harker traces the emergence of debt in Ramallah after 2008 as part of the financialization of the Palestinian economy under Israeli settler colonialism. Debt contributes to processes through which Palestinians are kept economically unstable and subordinate. He draws extensively on residents' accounts of living with the explosion of personal debt to highlight the entanglement of consumer credit with other obligatory relations among family, friends, and institutions. Harker offers a new geographical theorization of debt, showing how debt affects urban space including the movement of bodies through the city, localized economies, and the political violence associated with occupation. Bringing cultural and urban imaginaries into conversation with monetized debt, Harker shows how debt itself becomes a slow violence embedded into the everyday lives of citizens. However, debt is also a means through which Palestinians practice endurance, creatively adapting to life under occupation"--
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