Homeland : Zionism as housing regime, 1860-2011 / Yael Allweil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Allweil, Yael, author.

Series:

Planning, history, and the environment series

Planning, history and environment series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Housing policy--Palestine--History--19th century.

Housing policy.

Housing policy--Palestine--History--20th century.

Housing policy--Israel--History.

Dwellings--Social aspects--Palestine--History--19th century.

Dwellings.

Dwellings--Social aspects--Palestine--History--20th century.

Dwellings--Social aspects--Israel.

Nationalism and architecture.

Dwellings--Social aspects.

History.

Israel.

Middle East--Palestine.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, [2017]

Summary:

On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal Realty Today reported 'Israel is facing a housing crisis with ...[the] home inventory lacking 100,000 apartments... House prices, which have more than doubled in less than a decade, resulted in a mass protest back in 2011'. As Yael Allweil reveals in her fascinating book, housing has played a pivotal role in the history of nationalism and nation building in Israel-Palestine. She adopts the concept of 'homeland' to highlight how land and housing are central to both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism, and how the history of Zionist and Palestinian national housing have been inseparably intertwined from the introduction of the Ottoman Land Code in 1858 to the present day. Following the Introduction, Part I, 'Historiographies of Land Reform and Nationalism', discusses the formation of nationalism as the direct result of the Ottoman land code of 1858. Part II, 'Housing as Proto-Nationalism' focuses on housing as the means to claim rights over the homeland. Part III, 'Housing and Nation-Building in the Age of State Sovereignty', explores the effects of statehood on national housing across several strata of Israeli society. The Afterword discusses housing as the quintessential object of agonistic conflict in Israel-Palestine, around which the Israeli polity is formed and reformed. Book jacket.

Contents:

Empire land commodification and the backlash of nationalism

Experimentation in housing for nationalism, 1858-1917

"New native" Palestinian housing: plantation as backdrop for nationalism, 1858-1948

Houses before street: Tel Aviv's housing-based urban planning by Weiss and Geddes, 1909-1925

Today's child is tomorrow's state : kibbutz children's house as nursery for the good Zionist subject, 1922-1948

Immigrant housing and the establishment of the state's citizen contract, 1948-1953

Resistance to being swept away: Summud Arab-Palestinian housing in Israel, 1948-2004

Differentiated citizenship in differentiated housing, 1948-2005

Afterword: for the nation yet to come.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138776050

113877605X

OCLC:

909322782