The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society

by Lomsky-Feder, Edna; Ben-Ari, Eyal

• ISBN13: 9780791443521
• ISBN10: 0791443523
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-09-01
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society systematically examines the cultural and social construction of 'things military' within Israel. Contributors from comparative literature, film studies, sociology, anthropology, geography, history, and cultural studies explore the arenas in which the centrality of military matters are produced and reproduced by the state and by other public bodies. Analysis is presented using three perspectives: the production and reproduction of collective representations; the dynamics of gender, voice, and resistance; and the construction of individual life-worlds.

Author Biography

Myron J. Aronoff is professor of political science and anthropology at Rutgers University Maoz Azaryahu is a lecturer in the Geography Department of the University of Haifa Eyal Ben-Ari is associate professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Nachman Ben-Yehuda is full professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Efrat Ben-Ze'ev is a doctoral candidate at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Oxford Dr. Mirta Furman is a lecturer in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and in the School of Education of Tel-Aviv University Sara Helman is a lecturer in political sociology in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Ben Gurion University -- Beersheva Hannan Hever teaches in the Department of Poetics and Comparative Literature of Tel Aviv University Edna Lomsky-Feder, a qualitative sociologist, is a lecturer in the School of Education of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Meira Z. Weiss works in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem Anat Zanger is a tenured lecturer at the Film and Television Department of Tel-Aviv University

Table of Contents

Introduction: Cultural Constructions of War and the Military in Isreal	1	(36)
Eyal Ben-Ari
Edna Lomsky-Feder
Part I. Setting the Context
Wars as Catalysts of Political and Cultural Change	37	(20)
Myron J. Aronoff
Part II. Cultural Sites
The Masada Mythical Narrative and the Israeli Army	57	(32)
Nachman Ben-Yehuda
The Independence Day Military Parade: A Political History of a Patriotic Ritual	89	(28)
Maoz Azaryahu
War, Heroism, and Public Representations: The Case of a Museum of ``Coexistence'' in Jerusalem	117	(24)
Efrat Ben-Ze'ev
Eyal Ben-Ari
Part III. The Construction of Life-Worlds
Army and War: Collective Narratives of Early Childhood in Contemporary Israel	141	(28)
Mirta Furman
Masks and Soldiering: The Israeli Army and the Palestinian Uprising	169	(22)
Eyal Ben-Ari
Militarism and the Construction of the Life-World of Israeli Males: The Case of the Reserves System	191	(34)
Sara Helman
Part IV. Gender, Hegemony, and Resistance
Gender, Body, and the National Subject: Israeli Women's Poetry in the War of Independence	225	(36)
Hannan Hever
Filming National Identity: War and Woman in Israeli Cinema	261	(20)
Anat Zanger
Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli Nurses and the Discourse of Soldiering	281	(20)
Meira Z. Weiss
Epilogue	301	(12)
Edna Lomsky-Feder
Eyal Ben-Ari
About the Contributors	313	(4)
Index	317