Being Israeli : the dynamics of multiple citizenship / Gershon Shafir, Yoav Peled.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shafir, Gershon, author.

Peled, Yoav, author.

Series:

Cambridge Middle East studies ; 16.

Cambridge Middle East studies ; 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Citizenship--Israel.

Citizenship.

Civil society--Israel.

Civil society.

Political culture--Israel.

Political culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 397 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A timely study by two well-known scholars offers a theoretically informed account of the political sociology of Israel. The analysis is set within its historical context as the authors trace Israel's development from Zionist settlement in the 1880s, through the establishment of the state in 1948, to the present day. Against this background the authors speculate on the relationship between identity and citizenship in Israeli society, and consider the differential rights, duties and privileges that are accorded different social strata. In this way they demonstrate that, despite ongoing tensions, the pressure of globalization and economic liberalization has gradually transformed Israel from a frontier society to one more oriented towards peace and private profit. This unexpected conclusion offers some encouragement for the future of this troubled region. However, Israel's position towards the peace process is still subject to a tug-of-war between two conceptions of citizenship: liberal citizenship on the one hand, and a combination of the remnants of republican citizenship associated with the colonial settlement with an ever more religiously defined ethno-nationalist citizenship, on the other.

Contents:

The virtues of Ashkenazi pioneering

Mizrachim and women: between quality and quantity

The frontier within: Palestinians as third-class citizens

The wages of legitimation: Zionist and non-Zionist Orthodox Jews

New day on the frontier

The frontier erupts: the intifadas

Agents of political change

Economic liberalization and peacemaking

The "constitutional revolution"

Shrinking social rights

Emergent citizens groups? Immigrants from the FSU and Ethiopia and overseas labor migrants.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-386) and index.

ISBN:

0-511-10489-8

1-107-12179-5

0-511-04700-2

0-521-79224-X

1-280-43636-0

0-511-15673-1

1-139-16464-3

0-511-17602-3

0-511-32355-7

OCLC:

475915663

Publisher Number:

2027/heb08966 hdl