Shifting Priorities, and how private development is transforming aid, governance, and daily life in the West Bank
The Many Urbanisms of the Global South: Policy Nuances and Particularities
February 21, 2024
10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Celebrating 50 years of excellence, the Department of Urban Planning and Policy (UPP) at the College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA) is excited to organize a seminar series featuring cutting-edge, campus wide urban scholarship and research on the Global South. A program for the series is available here.
Despite being under occupation, surrounded by checkpoints and settlements, and subject to military incursion, the Palestinian Authority in the West Bank is today building a state in and through private development and neoliberal practice. The putative state is almost entirely dependent on international financial aid and political support, and it increasingly and officially emphasizes private investment and privatization as a form of public service. The Palestinian Authority is working to build stable institutions in an environment of pervasive scarcity—of land, mobility, and sovereignty. Paradoxically, as I will argue, they are also redistributing instability downwards.
Date posted
Sep 1, 2023
Date updated
Sep 7, 2023
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