Introduction: Home-Land: The Historigraphy of a Blind Spot, Part I: Housing Outside City Walls: New Forms of Sovereignty in Late Ottoman Palestine, 1. Empire Land Commodification and the Backlash of Nationalism, 2. Experimentation in Housing for Nationalism, 1858–1917, Part II: Housing for Proto-Nationalism, 3. ‘New Native’ Palestinian Housing: Plantation as Backdrop for Nationalism 1858–1948, 4. ‘Houses Before Street’: Tel Aviv’s Housing Based Urban Planning by Weiss and Geddes, 1909–1925, 5. ‘Today’s Child is Tomorrow’s State’: Kibbutz Children’s House as Nursery for the Good Zionist Subject, 1922–1948, Part III: Housing and Nation-Building in the Age of Sovereignty, 6. Immigrant Housing and the Establishment of the State–Citizen Contract, 1948–1953, 7. ‘Resistance to Being Swept Away’: Summud Arab-Palestinian Housing in Israel, 1948–2004, 8. Differentiated Citizenship in Differentiated Housing, 1948–2005, 9. Afterword: For the Nation Yet to Come
Biography
Yael Allweil is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Architecture and Town Planning at the Technion, Haifa, Israel. Her research centres on the history of housing in Israel and Palestine and the struggles over urban public spaces.
"Housing, Allweil argues, is a quintessential object of agonistic conflict and political debate in Israel-Palestine, and it is around it that the state-citizen contract has evolved and developed. And by demonstrating the similarity to other
cases in the U.S., Singapore and China, she contextualizes her study, while highlighting the state’s role in formulating housing regimes that become inseparable from the larger nation-building processes."Irit Katz, University of Pennsylvania / University of Cambridge
