The Invention and Decline of Israeliness - Baruch Kimmerling. This thought-provoking book, the first of its kind in the English language, reexamines the fifty-year-old nation of Israel in terms of its origins as a haven for a persecuted people and its evolution into a multi- cultural society.
Arguing that the mono-cultural regime built during the 1950s is over, Baruch Kimmerling suggests that the Israeli state has divided into seven major cultures. These seven groups, he contends, have been challenging one other for control over resource distribution and the identity of the polity. Politicide: Ariel Sharon's War Against the Palestinians - Baruch Kimmerling. Ariel Sharon was one of the most experienced, shrewd and frightening leaders of the new millennium.
Despite being found both directly and indirectly responsible for acts considered war crimes under international law, he became Prime Minister of Israel, a political victory he won by provoking the Palestinians into a new uprising, the second intifada. Baruch Kimmerling. Yiftachel, Oren. 368 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 35 maps Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3927-0 | $69.95s | £45.50 | Add to cartView table of contents and excerpt "An important book that adds the often neglected angle of political geography to the growing body of critical research on the Israeli state and society, and on the Jewish-Arab conflict.
"—Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem "A thoughtful, humane, and arresting book. . . . It ranges widely, contributing to a number of discussions in political geography, political sociology, and planning. "—Planning Theory For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. Critical Inquiry, Vol. 26, No. 4 (Summer, 2000), pp. 725-756. Oren Yiftachel. The Other Israel: Voices of Refusal and Dissent - Tom Segev, RoAne Carey, Anthony Lewis. The Global Political Economy of Israel.
Pluto Press - The Political Economy of Israel's Occupation. A Confiscated Memory. Yfaat Weiss December, 2011 Cloth, 272 pages, ISBN: 978-0-231-15226-6 $65.00 / £45.00 "This beautifully written book tells the story of refugees and immigrants who lived during the twentieth century in a single neighborhood in Haifa (Wadi Salib), enduring victimization as a result of war and long ethnic, national, and social discrimination and transformation.
Yfaat Weiss focuses on a pre-1948 Palestinian neighborhood in a predominantly Jewish City, laying out the way the displacement of Palestinians gave way to Jewish migrants, who were themselves refugees enduring social discrimination in Israel and were evicted as a result of Israel’s most famous social upheaval (1959), a watershed moment in Israeli ethnic relations between Ashkenazy and Sephardic Jews. "[T]his study adds to the broader discourse on identity and conflict in Israel. " — Choice "In this superb work of ethnic archeology, Yfaat Weiss has produced a penetrating history of Haifa's Wadi Salib.
Related Subjects. Professor Yfaat Weiss. The Postzionism Debates: Knowledge and Power in Israeli Culture - Laurence Jay Silberstein. The Challenge of Post-Zionism: Alternatives to Israeli Fundamentalist Politics - Ephraim Nimni. Jews and Others: Non-Jewish Jews in IsraelAsher Cohen is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Political Studies, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan Israel. Bernard Susser is Paterson Professor of Politics, Department of Political St. Being Israeli. This penetrating and timely study by two well-known scholars offers a theoretically informed account of the political sociology of Israel.
The argument is set in its historical context as the authors trace Israel's development from the beginning of Zionist settlement in Palestine in the early 1880s to the Oslo accords in 1993, and finally to the recent Palestinian uprising. Against this background, they speculate on the idea of citizenship and what it means to be the citizen of a fragmented and ideologically divided society. "Being Israeli is one of the most important studies on the Zionist-Israeli state building endeavor to have been published internationally for years. " American Journal of Sociology "Broad, sweeping, and insightful... the author's analysis...effectively explores the issues underlying many of Israel's social problems. "This book is full of rich information and is well organized by an appropriate conceptual scheme. " Gershon Shafir - Department of Sociology. Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refutations.
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