Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited

Capital and State Building in the West Bank

  • Author: Rabie, Kareem
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • ISBN: 9781478011958
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781478021407
  • Place of publication:  Durham , United States
  • Year of digital publication: 2021
  • Month: March
  • Pages: 280
  • Language: English
In 2008, Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad invited international investors to the first-ever Palestine Investment Conference, which was designed to jump-start the process of integrating Palestine into the global economy. As Fayyad described the conference, Palestine is “throwing a party, and the whole world is invited.” In this book Kareem Rabie examines how the conference and Fayyad's rhetoric represented a wider shift in economic and political practice in ways that oriented state-scale Palestinian politics toward neoliberal globalization rather than a diplomatic two-state solution. Rabie demonstrates that private firms, international aid organizations, and the Palestinian government in the West Bank focused on large-scale private housing development in an effort toward state-scale economic stability and market building. This approach reflected the belief that a thriving private economy would lead to a free and functioning Palestinian state. Yet, as Rabie contends, these investment-based policies have maintained the status quo of occupation and Palestine's subordinate and suspended political and economic relationship with Israel.
  • Cover
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1. The Site
  • 2. Developers and Designers
  • 3. Image, Process, and Precedent
  • 4. Public Urban Planning
  • 5. Housing Shortage and National Priority
  • 6. Public-Private Partnership
  • 7. Buyers and Villagers
  • 8. Critique, Capital, and the Landscape
  • 9. Settlers and the Land
  • 10. The Law, Mirroring, and the State
  • Conclusion
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
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