Israelis in Conflict: Hegemonies, Identities and Challenges - Softcover

Kemp, Adriana; Ram, Uri; Newman, David; Yifta, Oren

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1845196740 ISBN 13: 9781845196745

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Globalisation and increased cultural heterogeneity have had a major impact on states whose identity has been defined in terms of a single, often socially constructed, allegiance to the state and a single hegemonic ideology. Nowhere are changing notions of identity more prevalent than in Israel, a country whose dominant (Western-Jewish) society has been subject to understanding their past and present in terms of a single ideology of state formation -- Zionism. This book challenges some of the traditional analytical paradigms prevalent in Israeli social science for the past fifty years.

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About the Author:

Adriana Kemp is lecture and research fellow in the department of sociology at Tel Aviv University. Uri Ram is a sociologist at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jersusalem. David Newman is a professor of political geography at Ben-Gurion University and the editor of the journal Geopolitics. He is the author of Political Geography. Oren Yiftachel is a professor of political geography at Ben-Gurion University. He is the author of Ethnocracy: Land and Identity Politics in Israel/Palestine.

Review:

“The book provides insight into the make-up and functioning of present-day Israeli society, and hopefully will provoke others to investigate similarly.”  —Israeli Sociology

About this edition

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1845196740
• ISBN 13: 9781845196745
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 333