04/08/2025
Please join us this Thursday for our next exciting Faculty Fellow Lecture! Professor Kareem Rabie from Anthropology who will be giving an introduction to his ongoing research and new writing on contemporary human and economic geographies in, and in-between, the West Bank and China. Beginning with a focus on small commodity exchange between Palestinians in Yiwu and in the West Bank, it attempts to understand changing forms of community and national identification among Palestinians, the impact that mechanisms governing free trade have on them, and what flows of commodity and capital have to do with the occupation. It combines ethnographic field work in Palestine and China with historical accounts of Palestinian state building after the Oslo Accords and labor patterns among port workers under the British Mandate. It ends by scaling up towards an account of general forms of connection and disconnection as matters of culture, politics, production, and possibility.
Kareem Rabie is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois Chicago. His first book, Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank was published by Duke University Press in 2021. It focuses on privatization, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank. Prior to joining the faculty at UIC, he was an assistant professor at American University in Washington, DC; Harper-Schmidt Fellow at the University of Chicago; and Marie Curie Fellow/Senior Researcher at The University of Oxford.
📅 Thursday April 10th, 4:00-5:30pmpm
📍Institute for the Humanities, Behavioral Sciences Building, 1007 W. Harrison St., Ste. 153
🎤 Faculty Fellow Kareem Rabie
