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.
Tabella dei contenuti
1. Introduction: Cultural Constructions of War and the Military in Israel
Eyal Ben-Ari and Edna Lomsky-Feder
2. Wars as Catalysts of Political and Cultural Change
Myron J. Aronoff
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
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
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
Circa l’autore
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.
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