On 29 March 2016 the New York based online journal; Realty Today reported lsquo;Israel is facing a housing crisis with hellip;[the] home inventory lacking 100;000 apartmentshellip; House prices; which have more than doubled in less than a decade; resulted in a mass protest back in 2011rsquo;.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 lsquo;homelandrsquo; 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; lsquo;Historiographies of Land Reform and Nationalismrsquo;; discusses the formation of nationalism as the direct result of the Ottoman land code of 1858. Part II; lsquo;Housing as Proto-Nationalismrsquo; focuses on housing as the means to claim rights over the homeland. Part III; lsquo;Housing and Nation-Building in the Age of State Sovereigntyrsquo;; 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.
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