ROUNDTABLE: The Political Economy of Palestine

Welcome to this very first episode of Macrodose Roundtable, the show where we go in depth with some of the brightest minds from the world of economics and ecology. Macrodose roundtables are an opportunity to expand some of the ideas introduced in our main show, in a longer form, multi-guest format.

Today's episode is hosted by author and labour journalist Sarah Jaffe and looks at the political economy of Palestine. We situate Palestine in the wider context of the global economy, and hear what daily life looks like for Palestinian people: their work, their access or lack thereof to goods and services, and places to live or to be safe. We also speak about the economic pressures that people around the world have used to try to bring justice for the Palestinian people.

Kareem Rabie is Associate Professor of Anthropology at The University of Illinois, Chicago. His work focuses on privatisation, urban development, and the state-building project in the West Bank and he is the author of Palestine is Throwing a Party and the Whole World is Invited, published by Duke University Press in 2021.

Laleh Khalili is a professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter. She is the author of Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula (Verso 2020) and her new little book, the Corporeal Life of Seafaring (Mack Books 2024) is being released in February.

Sarah:  sarahljaffe.com

Work Won't Love You Back

Belabored: General Strike in Palestine with Riya Al-Sanah

Kareem: Palestine Is Throwing a Party and the Whole World Is Invited: Capital and State Building in the West Bank

Combined and Uneven Catastrophe: an interview with Kareem Rabie at the Baffler

On Israel's Settler-Democratic Reform, Kareem Rabie and Nicola Perugini

Laleh: Sinews of War and Trade: Shipping and Capitalism in the Arabian Peninsula

The Corporeal Life of Seafaring

Time in the Shadows: Confinement in Counterinsurgencies

“To Reach Across Boundaries": Laleh Khalili Talks Solidarity and Global Trade, at Public Books

Books/Articles We Mentioned:

Human Shields: A History of People in the Line of Fire by Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini

The Human Right to Dominate by Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon

The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development by Sara Roy

Sara Roy at the Journal for Palestine Studies

The Long War on Gaza, by Sara Roy at the New York Review of Books

The Palestine Laboratory: How Israel Exports the Technology of Occupation Around the World by Antony Loewenstein

Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine by Lisa Bhungalia