Summary
The author of Governing Gaza: Bureaucracy, Authority, and the Work of Rule, 1917-1967 (Duke University Press, 2008), a historical ethnography of Gaza’s civil service under the British Mandate and the Egyptian Administration based on two years in Gaza in 1998 and 1999 and archival research in Cairo, Jerusalem, London and the United States (Governing Gaza, PDF p.10-13, p.20).
Details
- Feldman thanks retired civil servants and other Gazans who let her tape-record conversations, and names research assistants Emad Karam and Mushir Amer, who transcribed tapes and worked through documentary materials with her (PDF p.10).
- Some ideas in the book were first published in her article in Comparative Studies in Society and History 47, 4 (2005): 863-91, as printed on PDF p.11.
- Her training, as she records it, was a doctorate in anthropology and history at the University of Michigan, Arabic study begun at New York University and continued at Middlebury and CASA, a fellowship at Columbia’s Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and work at NYU’s Kevorkian Center, where she thanks Zachary Lockman in particular (PDF p.12-13).
Related pages
Governing Gaza, Gaza, Tactical government, Reiterative authority