Homeland - 9781138776050

Taylor & Francis

HomelandZionism as Housing Regime, 18602011\nAuthor(s): Yael Allweil\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138776050, 978-1138776050\nSynopsis\nOn 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.\n\nAs 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.\n\nFollowing the Introduction, Part I, Historiographies of Land.