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Mobile homes: the refashioning of Palestinian merchant homes in the late Ottoman period
This article is about movement and the role it has played in shaping Palestinian homes. The article looks at merchants from Bethlehem as a case study of how mobility produced new types of homes in the late Ottoman and mandate periods, both materially and conceptually. It documents how the merchants' newfound economic success transformed Bethlehem's urban landscape and in turn produced a kind of “mobile home” as they adopted increasingly transient lifestyles, moving between multiple locations across the globe. These trends are explained within a framework of nineteenth century globalization, the birth of corporate identities, and shifting gender relations.
Funding
Merchants and miracles: global circulations and the making of modern Bethlehem; G2033; AHRC-ARTS & HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL; AH/P013384/1
History
Publication status
- Published
File Version
- Published version
Journal
Jerusalem QuarterlyISSN
2521-9731Publisher
Institute for Palestine StudiesPublisher URL
Volume
83Page range
9-33Department affiliated with
- History Publications
Full text available
- Yes
Peer reviewed?
- Yes