... global ethnography multiple realities social activism Israel Oshra, 1 a middle-aged Jewish housewife from a Southern Israeli town, was sitting on a plastic chair in the middle of a dusty valley in the Northern Negev desert in Israel. Around her was a jumble of demolished shacks, tin...

... University Press . Alatout Samer . 2002 . “ Imagining Hydrological Boundaries, Constructing the Nation State: A Fluid History of Israel, 1936–1959. ” Ph.D. dissertation, Cornell. Alatout Samer 2005 . “ Narratives of Power: Territory, Population, and Environmental Politics in Palestine...

.... The great lesson is that more and more “civilization” is not the answer. When Bauman visited Israel in February 2013, at the age of eighty-seven, he was denounced for suggesting that Israel, in building the Separation Wall, was “Hitler’s posthumous triumph” (quoted in Lendman 2013) . 2 Calls that he...

... – 72 . Massad Joseph . 2000 . “ The ‘Postcolonial’ Colony: Time, Space, and Bodies in Palestine/Israel .” In The Pre-occupation of Postcolonial Studies , edited by Afzal-Khan Fawzia Geshadri-Crooks Keplana , 311 – 46 . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Miller Daniel...

... as a process of cultural transformation by which new forms of subjectivity are offered. © 2014 Duke University Press 2014 Agamben subjectivity profanation Israel-Palestine Giorgio Agamben’s State of Exception (2005 [2003]) offers unquestionably one of the most accurate diagnoses of our...

... A prosecutor I met in Israel, who worked with several organ-trade cases, put me in touch with both poor organ sellers and people involved in the international fertility business, ranging from legal medical tourism to illegal commerce. These contacts opened the door for meetings with doctors from fertility...

... the stage for crude accumulation or future maneuvering. For Boal et al ., the present turns out to be the totalitarian future that Hanna Arendt foresaw: the “endless accumulation of armed power proposes itself…as the very basis of the social order” (p. 107). Chapter four delves into US–Israel relations...

... of the airliner, see the Wikipedia article “Malaysia Airlines Flight 17,” en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaysia_Airlines_Flight_17. 20 For examples of growing US criticism of Israel, see King and Batsheva 2014 . On both the Ukraine airline shooting and the Israeli attacks on Gaza, see Chomsky 2014 . On August...

...Murat Cem Mengüç; Dominic McGill 4. Conservative columnist Jonah Goldberg's essay “Civilization Envy: On Muslims, Israel, and McDonald's” was our key here. He had interpreted the presence of McDonald's stores as evidence of higher civilization and written that “Israel may just be like a giant...

... been as extensive as claimed, that the plight of Palestinians was worse, and that the Zionist State (Israel) needed to be disappeared from time and space. Many Iranian intellectuals protested these tactics of the Ahmadinejad leadership. Four of the Danish cartoons centrally thematize the issue...

... inhibited the popularity of African American leaders, such as Jesse Jackson, and the persuasiveness of African American challenges to domestic and international policies, such as Jewish opposition to affirmative action, Israel’s relations with South Africa, or a call for a Palestinian state ( King 1987...

... musique ( Our Music ) (2004) . The conflict—heightened in recent years by Israel’s building of a separation wall reaching twenty-five feet in places, by settlers’ seizures of Palestinian land, by life-interrupting delays at Israeli checkpoints, and by many civilian deaths—was Darwish’s primary subject...

... the backwardness of the prewar era and the cataclysm of the war” (Z. Bauman 2020 : 9). His discharge from the army in 1953 due to his father's attempt to secure a visa for a one-way trip to the state of Israel paved the way for him to become a sociologist in the department at the University of Warsaw. In 1968 he...

... of religion, therefore, refers not to “primary” religion, or salvation religion in Weber's terms. Rather, in Assmann's terms, it is about “secondary” religion, a more reflective form of true veneration of God in Israel and elsewhere that imposes itself critically on other religions. Going beyond Schmitt, one...

... with the Palestinian people but with terrorist organisations.” 10 If such reminders are necessary these days, this is undoubtedly because there is a sickening risk that any war will lead to widespread civil war – not only in Israel and Palestine but in the whole of the Near and Middle East and, perhaps, beyond...

... and motherhood. Citizenship and motherhood mutually inform each other, and this is notable when it comes to new reproductive technologies as well. For example, Elly Teman (2010) , in her work on surrogacy in Israel, studies motherhood and nationality from a feminist intersectional perspective and notes how...

... of the Austrian School, including Carl Menger (1849–1921) and Eugen Böhm-Bawerk (1851–1914) worked out of Vienna, the 1970s “revival” of the school in the United States was led by Rothbard and British émigré Israel Kirzner (1930–). By the 1980s, the Austrians had set up institutional bases at NYU and, most...

... confronted by colleagues and students working in more empirically oriented disciplines with challenges drawn from “real life.” Not surprisingly one of the more regularly occurring of these in recent years has concerned the “war on terror,” the occupation of Iraq, and the Israel–Palestine conflict...

.... In the semiconscious near-death state, they perceive the soul as the faculty that leads the battle, not the mind or consciousness. They threaten the state of Israel through the possibility of their death. In response the Israeli authorities create new tools of constraint, which leads in turn to the development...

..., again, in the troubled nationalist register of Lebanese exceptionalism. In the catalog of the 1982 salon, the right-wing phalangist and Lebanese president Amine Gemayel—whose brother Bachir colluded with Israel's defense forces in their massacre of Palestinians and their ejection of the Palestine...