Description: An investigation into how government persists under even the most untenable conditions, based on an analysis of government in Gaza between 1917 and 1967.
Review Quotes: "In this monograph--one impressive in its meticulous attention to historical detail, its artful melding of ethnography and history, and its skillful engagement with a wide range of scholarly literatures--Feldman contends that the case of Gaza does much to illuminate both an understudied aspect of Palestinian history and the often fragile and makeshift nature of government bureaucracy per se. . . . What Governing Gaza provides is not merely the ethnographic and historic basis for a rethinking of the very notion of 'government'--a shift from an aggregate institution to a body of ordinary practices--but also a vision of everyday Gaza that most scholars have neglected."--Rebecca L. Stein "American Anthropologist"