Paul Kohlbry
Biographic Data
| ID | 629931 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Kohlbry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Kohlbry |
| SIGNATURE | KOHLBRY P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Chicago |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0463-7899 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Post-agrarian land defense
Land struggles in rural Palestine have given rise to influential practices, movements, and representations of anti-colonial resistance. While these struggles have received significant attention, scholars and activists rarely note that the rural communities who find themselves on the frontlines of a national struggle for land are the very same people who find it increasingly difficult to make a living from it. As a result, discussions of rural res…
Titling in the Ruins
Palestinian Authority (PA) land titling began in 2005 as a means of creating property and sovereignty. Titling projects are extending government control over Palestinians, but they cannot secure their lands from Israeli state and private power. This article is an ethnography of Palestinian land titling, focusing on the specific problems that fraudulent land transfers to Israeli settlers create for such property-making efforts. It argues that for …
Selling Rural Palestine
This article is a study of the causes and consequences of making Palestinian land into an ethical investment. It builds on fieldwork in villages north of Ramallah where a Palestinian real estate company purchased devalued agricultural lands and offered them to Palestinian buyers as an ethical investment. It argues that through private titling, planning, and infrastructure, this company secured land for potential investors and produced an imaginar…
To cover the land in green
In the 1980s, Palestinian agronomists, activists, and farmers turned land reclamation into an anti-colonial project in the West Bank. Drawing on technical studies, interviews, and fieldwork, this article argues that anti-colonial reclamation is a composite of modernist engineering, peasant tradition, and international Leftist thought. Palestinian experts and voluntary work activists used reclamation to confront colonization and build a political …
Palestinian counter-forensics and the cruel paradox of property
In disputes between Palestinian landowners and the Israeli state, several Palestinian surveyors in the West Bank use Ottoman-era deeds to establish preinvasion land claims. Through a distinct practice of counter-forensics, these surveyors transform landscapes, documents, and local knowledge into evidence of property ownership. They seek to establish the fact of Palestinian ownership before Israeli invasion and to build a legal and political narra…
Owning the Homeland
This article examines the formation of land defense in relation to changing legal and economic conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories. It argues that as a result of settler capital and law, Palestinian land defense should be understood as emerging through, rather than apart from, private property. Specifically, it explores how private property and market forces shaped agrarian land defense (1970s–1980s) and real estate land defense (p…
Accounting for the Occupation
Shir Hever’s book examines the underlying economic dynamics of Israel’s occupation. Hever’s analysis brings out several overlooked mechanisms that function to make the Occupation profitable to Israeli state and corporate interests, but he also argues that for Israeli society, the costs of Occupation far outweigh the benefits. Hever is highly critical of Marxist accounts that, he claims, misunderstand the political economy of the Occupation, but t…
To cover the land in green
In the 1980s, Palestinian agronomists, activists, and farmers turned land reclamation into an anti-colonial project in the West Bank. Drawing on technical studies, interviews, and fieldwork, this article argues that anti-colonial reclamation is a composite of modernist engineering, peasant tradition, and international Leftist thought. Palestinian experts and voluntary work activists used reclamation to confront colonization and build a political …
Palestinian counter-forensics and the cruel paradox of property
In disputes between Palestinian landowners and the Israeli state, several Palestinian surveyors in the West Bank use Ottoman-era deeds to establish preinvasion land claims. Through a distinct practice of counter-forensics, these surveyors transform landscapes, documents, and local knowledge into evidence of property ownership. They seek to establish the fact of Palestinian ownership before Israeli invasion and to build a legal and political narra…
Owning the Homeland
This article examines the formation of land defense in relation to changing legal and economic conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories. It argues that as a result of settler capital and law, Palestinian land defense should be understood as emerging through, rather than apart from, private property. Specifically, it explores how private property and market forces shaped agrarian land defense (1970s–1980s) and real estate land defense (p…
Titling in the Ruins
Palestinian Authority (PA) land titling began in 2005 as a means of creating property and sovereignty. Titling projects are extending government control over Palestinians, but they cannot secure their lands from Israeli state and private power. This article is an ethnography of Palestinian land titling, focusing on the specific problems that fraudulent land transfers to Israeli settlers create for such property-making efforts. It argues that for …
Accounting for the Occupation
Shir Hever’s book examines the underlying economic dynamics of Israel’s occupation. Hever’s analysis brings out several overlooked mechanisms that function to make the Occupation profitable to Israeli state and corporate interests, but he also argues that for Israeli society, the costs of Occupation far outweigh the benefits. Hever is highly critical of Marxist accounts that, he claims, misunderstand the political economy of the Occupation, but t…
Accounting for the Occupation
Shir Hever’s book examines the underlying economic dynamics of Israel’s occupation. Hever’s analysis brings out several overlooked mechanisms that function to make the Occupation profitable to Israeli state and corporate interests, but he also argues that for Israeli society, the costs of Occupation far outweigh the benefits. Hever is highly critical of Marxist accounts that, he claims, misunderstand the political economy of the Occupation, but t…
Owning the Homeland
This article examines the formation of land defense in relation to changing legal and economic conditions in the occupied Palestinian territories. It argues that as a result of settler capital and law, Palestinian land defense should be understood as emerging through, rather than apart from, private property. Specifically, it explores how private property and market forces shaped agrarian land defense (1970s–1980s) and real estate land defense (p…
To cover the land in green
In the 1980s, Palestinian agronomists, activists, and farmers turned land reclamation into an anti-colonial project in the West Bank. Drawing on technical studies, interviews, and fieldwork, this article argues that anti-colonial reclamation is a composite of modernist engineering, peasant tradition, and international Leftist thought. Palestinian experts and voluntary work activists used reclamation to confront colonization and build a political …
Palestinian counter-forensics and the cruel paradox of property
In disputes between Palestinian landowners and the Israeli state, several Palestinian surveyors in the West Bank use Ottoman-era deeds to establish preinvasion land claims. Through a distinct practice of counter-forensics, these surveyors transform landscapes, documents, and local knowledge into evidence of property ownership. They seek to establish the fact of Palestinian ownership before Israeli invasion and to build a legal and political narra…
Titling in the Ruins
Palestinian Authority (PA) land titling began in 2005 as a means of creating property and sovereignty. Titling projects are extending government control over Palestinians, but they cannot secure their lands from Israeli state and private power. This article is an ethnography of Palestinian land titling, focusing on the specific problems that fraudulent land transfers to Israeli settlers create for such property-making efforts. It argues that for …
Selling Rural Palestine
This article is a study of the causes and consequences of making Palestinian land into an ethical investment. It builds on fieldwork in villages north of Ramallah where a Palestinian real estate company purchased devalued agricultural lands and offered them to Palestinian buyers as an ethical investment. It argues that through private titling, planning, and infrastructure, this company secured land for potential investors and produced an imaginar…
Post-agrarian land defense
Land struggles in rural Palestine have given rise to influential practices, movements, and representations of anti-colonial resistance. While these struggles have received significant attention, scholars and activists rarely note that the rural communities who find themselves on the frontlines of a national struggle for land are the very same people who find it increasingly difficult to make a living from it. As a result, discussions of rural res…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Politics (6 works) · Agriculture (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (4 works) · Land tenure (4 works) · Political economy (4 works)