Lomsky-Feder / Ben-Ari The Military and Militarism in Israeli Society

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-9341-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 329 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Israeli Studies

Investigates the cultural and social constructions of issues related to war, the armed forces, and national security in Israel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lomsky-Feder, Edna

Ben-Ari, Eyal

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Naher & Mittlerer Osten

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Cultural Constructions of War and the Military in Israel
Eyal Ben-Ari and Edna Lomsky-Feder Part I. Setting the Context 2. Wars as Catalysts of Political and Cultural Change
Myron J. Aronoff Part II. Cultural Sites 3. The Masada Mythical Narrative and the Israeli Army
Nachman Ben-Yehuda 4. The Independence Day Military Parade: A Political History of a Patriotic Ritual
Maoz Azaryahu 5. War, Heroism, and Public Representations: The Case of a Museum of "Coexistence" in Jerusalem
Efrat Ben Ze'ev and Eyal Ben-Ari Part III. The Constructions of Life-Worlds 6. Army and War: Collective Narratives of Early Childhood in Contemporary Israel
Mirta Furman 7. Masks and Soldiering: The Israeli Army and the Palestinian Uprising
Eyal Ben-Ari 8. Militarism and the Construction of the Life-World of Israeli Males: The Case of the Reserves System
Sara Helman Part IV. Gender, Hegemony, and Resistance 9. Gender, Body, and the National Subject: Israeli Women's Poetry in the War if Independence
Hannan Hever 10. Filming National Identity: War and Woman in Israeli Cinema
Anat Zanger 11. Engendering the Gulf War: Israeli Nurses and the Discourse of Soldiering
Meira Z. Weiss 12. Epilogue
Edna Lomsky-Feder and Eyal Ben-Ari About the Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Edna Lomsky-Feder is lecturer in the School of Education, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Eyal Ben-Ari is Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology in The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He is the author of Body Projects in Japanese Childcare: Culture, Organization and Emotions in a Preschool.