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Record Nr.

UNINA9910786925303321

Autore

Svirsky Marcelo

Titolo

After Israel : towards cultural transformation / / Marcelo Svirsky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, England : , : Zed Books, , 2014

[London, England] : , : Bloomsbury Publishing, , 2021

ISBN

1-350-21827-8

1-78032-615-7

1-78032-614-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Disciplina

956.053

Soggetti

Zionism - Israel

Arab-Israeli conflict

Politics & government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-231) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- 1. The Hiker -- 2. The Teacher -- 3. The Parent -- 4. The Voter -- A thousand profanations.

Sommario/riassunto

In this unique new contribution, Marcelo Svirsky asserts that no political solution currently on offer can provide the cultural marrow necessary to effect a transformation of modes of being and ways of life in the State of Israel. Controversially, Svirsky argues that the Zionist political project cannot be fixed - it is one that negatively affects the lives of its beneficiaries as well as of its victims. Instead, the book aims to generate a reflective attitude, allowing Jewish-Israelis to explore how they may divest themselves of Zionist identities by engaging with dissident rationalities, practices and institutions. Ultimately, the production of military hardware and technology that helps Israel control the lives of Palestinians, of separate policies, laws and spaces for Jews and Palestinians, are all linked with the production of Zionist subjectivities and modes of being. Overcoming these modes of being is to after Israel.