Security and Suspicion - An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel

Informationen zum Autor Juliana Ochs Klappentext Juliana Ochs is Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Princeton University Art Museum. Zusammenfassung Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada! this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives! the book argues! security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent. Inhaltsverzeichnis Author's Note Introduction: The Practice of Everyday Security Chapter 1. A Genealogy of Israeli Security Chapter 2. Senses of Security: Rebuilding Café Hillel Chapter 3. Pahad : Fear as Corporeal Politics Chapter 4. Embodying Suspicion Chapter 5. Projecting Security in the City Chapter 6. On IKEA and Army Boots: The Domestication of Security Chapter 7. Seeing, Walking, Securing: Tours of Israel's Separation Wall Epilogue: Real Fantasies of Security Notes Bibliography Index Acknowledgments

Product details

• Authors: Juliana Ochs, OCHS JULIANA
• Publisher: University of pennsylvania pr
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 13.06.2013
• EAN: 9780812222661
• ISBN: 978-0-8122-2266-1
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series; Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence; Ethnography of Political Viole; The Ethnography of Political Violence
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories