Paul Kohlbry

Paul Kohlbry, Assistant Professor of Global Studies and anthropologist focused on agrarian studies, explores agrarian annihilation and the fight for land justice in Palestine. He discusses the shift from peasant farming to real estate, how property can both dispossess and defend, reclamation and experimental farms, gendered land injustices, and the role of international solidarity.

Paul Kohlbry, Assistant Professor of Global Studies and anthropologist of agrarian life, discusses land as home, property, territory, and homeland. He traces agrarian annihilation in the West Bank, legal and market pressures on peasant farming, ruined land and reclamation projects, property as both tool of conquest and defense, and gendered inheritance and land-for-tillers claims.

Paul Kohlbry, an anthropologist and UCSB professor who studies agrarian politics, discusses Palestinian land as home, property, territory, and homeland. He explores agrarian annihilation, contrasts fast and slow violences, and examines how titling, property, and reclamation shape rural life. Conversations cover gendered inheritance, commodification, and strategies for land defense and regeneration.