Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice : Middle East and Islam Studies in Israeli Universities / by Eyal Clyne.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Clyne, Eyal, author.

Series:

Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 27.

Routledge advances in Middle East and Islamic studies ; 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Islam--Study and teaching (Higher)--Israel.

Islam.

Orientalism.

Zionism.

Middle East--Study and teaching (Higher)--Israel.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (269 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Summary:

Orientalism, Zionism and Academic Practice explores the field of Israeli Middle East and Islamic Studies (MEIS) sociologically and politically, as a window onto the relationship between Orientalism, Zionism and academia. The book draws special attention to neoliberal discourse and praxis in everyday higher education, the interests of scholars, and the political form that commercialisation takes in specific disciplinary and geopolitical conditions by deconstructing structural and historical presuppositions and effective ideologies that overdetermine this junction of academia, orientalism and Zionism. The multi-layered study draws on various scholarly traditions and offers new evidence for, and insights in, historical and cultural-discursive discussions. It highlights paradigmatic gaps in reading Saidian orientalism, re-evaluates the origins and evolution of the local field, contributes to the study of everyday academic culture in the social sciences and humanities (SSH), and unveils the presupposed and the unsaid of the general and the specific field, exploring the intersection of an orientalist expertise, in a settler-colonial society, and everyday academic capitalism. The expertise of this sociological and discursive study make it an invaluable resource for academics and students interested in Israel and Middle East studies, Higher Education and the Sociology of Academia.

Contents:

Hitoricism

Genealogies

New hegemonies

Disciplining Saidism

Anti crisis

Discourse and ideology

Can society speak?

Interest

Marketing

Mission

The nonacademic.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-351-26400-1

1-351-26398-6

1-351-26399-4

9781351264006

OCLC:

1049574178