Beyond Suspicion : The Moral Clash Between Rootedness and Progressive Liberalism.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mizrahi, Nissim.

Series:

University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures Series

University of California Series in Jewish History and Cultures Series ; v.4

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Belonging (Social psychology).

Mizrahim--Israel--21st century.

Mizrahim.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, 2024.

Summary:

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. For more than four decades, socially disadvantaged Israeli Mizrahim--descendants of Jews from Middle Eastern and North African communities--have continuously supported right-wing political parties. Scholars, left-wing politicians, and activists tend to view Mizrahim as reacting against their structural exclusion, or more crudely as acting against their own interests, but Nissim Mizrachi locates the source of their so-called paradoxical behavior within the limitations of the liberal grammar by which their outlook and behavior are read. In Beyond Suspicion, Mizrachi turns the direction of inquiry back on itself, contrasting liberal grammar--which values autonomy, equality, and universal reason and morality as the only authentic human choice--with the grammar of rootedness, in which the self is experienced through a web of relational commitments, temporal ties, and codes of collective identity. Recognizing rootedness as a fundamental need and desire for belonging is necessary to understand both scholarly and political rifts in Israel and throughout the world.

Contents:

Cover

Imprint

Subvention

Series

Title

Copyright

Contents

Acknowledgments

1. Beyond the Sociology of Suspicion

2. False Consciousness

3. It's Only a Matter of Time

4. "It Doesn't Matter Who the Majority Is"

5. The Arab Jew

6. Rootedness and Defiance

7. The Need for Belonging

Appendix 1. Shadow Cases

Appendix 2. Relative Representation of Mizrahim in Political Institutions

Appendix 3. Vignettes

Notes

References

Index.

Notes:

This eBook is made available Open Access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0

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ISBN:

9780520382862

0520382862

OCLC:

1453643445