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Plots and Deeds : Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kohlbry, Paul.
- Series:
- Stanford Studies in Middle Eastern and Islamic Societies and Cultures Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Land use.
- Land research.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (264 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Redwood City : Stanford University Press, 2026.
- Summary:
- The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric.But after military occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israeli land confiscations and economic policies pushed rural cultivators into wage labor.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Recentering Peasants, Rethinking Land
- One. Ruining: The Long War on the Palestinian Peasantry
- Two. Owning: Land Defense and Property
- Three. Selling: Land Commodification and the Loss of Village Control
- Four. Building: Land for Those Who Work It
- Five. Returning: Agrarian Experiments in the Highlands
- Conclusion: Many Land Justices
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Series Page
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Part of the metadata in this record was created by AI, based on the text of the resource.
- ISBN:
- 1-5036-4512-6
- 9781503645127
- OCLC:
- 1561171433
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