Rabie Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Capital and State Building in the West Bank
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-4780-2140-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 269 Seiten

Kareem Rabie examines how Palestine's desire to fully integrate its economy into global markets through large-scale investment projects represented a shift away from political state building with the hope that a thriving economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Rabie, Kareem

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction 1
1. The Site 37
2. Developers and Designers 54
3. Image, Process, and Precedent 67
4. Public Urban Planning 81
5. Housing Shortage and National Priority 93
6. Public-Private Partnership 105
7. Buyers and Villagers 131
8. Critique, Capital, and the Landscape 149
9. Settlers and the Land 163
10. The Law, Mirroring, and the State 183
Conclusion 199
Acknowledgments 213
Notes 217
References 235
Index 255

Über Autor(innen)

Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois, Chicago.