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Plots and Deeds : Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine - Paul Kohlbry

Plots and Deeds

Agrarian Annihilation and the Fight for Land Justice in Palestine

By: Paul Kohlbry

Hardcover | 3 February 2026

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The emancipatory potential and limits of land justice, when land is at once home, property, territory, and homeland.   Peasant farming was once an integral part of Palestine's agrarian fabric. But after military occupation of the West Bank in 1967, Israeli land confiscations and economic policies pushed rural cultivators into wage labor. In recent decades, Palestinian land titling and private developers have driven the slow transformation of agricultural land into real estate. In Plots and Deeds, Paul Kohlbry argues that we should see these changes as part of a larger process of agrarian annihilation, one in which state violence and market coercion together devastate the social, ecological, and economic relationships that make agrarian livelihoods possible.   Kohlbry tells the story of those who, refusing annihilation, struggle both for the return of land, and for their return to it. Through long-term engagements in the central highlands of the West Bank, Kohlbry shows how peasant practices and ethics matter for those fighting to rebuild collective attachments to rural places, and the surprising ways that property ownership has become a means of both land dispossession and defense. Going beyond accounts that treat the peasant as a tragic figure or a heroic national symbol, Kohlbry foregrounds the complexity of agrarian life to reveal the relationships between agrarian regeneration and political liberationâ"ultimately connecting Palestine within a global struggle for land justice.

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