After Israel : towards cultural transformation / Marcelo Svirsky.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Svirsky, Marcelo, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zionism--Israel.

Zionism.

Arab-Israeli conflict.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (258 p.)

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2021

Place of Publication:

London, England : Zed Books, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

1. The Hiker

2. The Teacher

3. The Parent

4. The Voter

A thousand profanations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

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

ISBN:

9781350218277

1350218278

9781780326153

1780326157

9781780326146

1780326149

OCLC:

879430555