Israelis in Conflict Hegemonies, Identities and Challenges

by Kemp, Adriana; Ram, Uri; Newman, David; Yiftachel, Oren

• ISBN13: 9781903900659
• ISBN10: 1903900654
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-07-01
• Publisher: Sussex Academic Press

Summary

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. Although the State continues to define itself in terms of a homogeneous political and cultural entity, as the voices and narratives of marginalised (especially Palestinian, Eastern-Jewish and women) groups come to the fore, agencies of state socialisation are no longer able to impose an unchallenged state identity or hegemony. The deconstruction of a state-sponsored social identity, whose aim is social cohesion, is here investigated by critical scholars who develop an alternative understanding of this highly dynamic society.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Introduction: Hegemonic Identities	1	(20)
David Newman
Uri Ram
Part I Hegemonies
From National to Post-National Territorial Identities in Israel-Palestine	21	(26)
David Newman
Social Citizenship in the Neo-Liberal Period: The Case of Israel's Health Services	47	(18)
Dani File
De-Arabization of the Bedouin: A Study of an Inevitable Failure	65	(16)
Yossi Yonah
Ismael Abu-Saad
Avi Kaplan
Writing against the State: Transnationalism and the Epistemology of Minority Studies, with Special Reference to Israel	81	(20)
Dan Rabinowitz
Part II Identities
Representing National Identity in Conditions of Conflict	101	(22)
Ahmad Sa'di
Palestinian Dynamics of Self-Representation: Identity and Difference in Palestinian Nationalism	123	(21)
Amal Jamal
Being an Oleh in a Global World: From Local Ethnic Community to Transnational Community	144	(18)
Lisa Anteby-Yemini
Negotiating Difference in Israeli Scholarship: Towards A New Feminist Discourse	162	(26)
Pnina Motzafi-Haller
Rock Aesthetics, Israeliness and Globalization	188	(15)
Motti Regev
Part III Challenges
Between Periphery and `Third Space': Identity of Mizrahim in Israel's Development Towns	203	(33)
Oren Yiftachel
Erez Tzfadia
Absent Voices: Citizenship and Identity Narratives of Palestinian Women in Israel	236	(17)
Hanna Herzog
New Associations or New Politics? The Significance of Israeli-Style Post-Materialism	253	(30)
Uri Ben Eliezer
Claim Making and the Emergence of New Minorities: Black African Migrant Workers in Israel	283	(22)
Adriana Kemp
Rebeca Raijman
Julia Resnik
Silvia Shamah
The State of the Nation: Contemporary Challenges to Zionism in Israel	305	(16)
Uri Ram
The Contributors	321	(3)
Index	324