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Informationen zum Autor Smadar Lavie spent nine years as a tenured professor of anthropology at the University of California, Davis, and is currently a visiting scholar at the University of California, Berkeley’s Department of Ethnic Studies and a visiting professor at the Institute for Social Science in the Twenty-First Century at University College Cork, Ireland. She is the author and coeditor of several books, including The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. The first edition of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel won honorable mention from the Association of Middle East Women’s Studies and was a finalist for the Clifford Geertz Prize from the Society for the Anthropology of Religion. Lavie won the 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Prize from the American Studies Association. Klappentext Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain--and, arguably, torture--to examine the conundrum of loving and staying loyal to a state that repeatedly inflicts pain on its non-European Jewish women citizens. Zusammenfassung Analyses the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers' March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements! violence in Gaza! and the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran. Inhaltsverzeichnis Note on Transliteration Introduction: Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Single Mothers “Reaganomics,” ¿ok HaHesderim, and the Oslo Boomtime The Hudna Knafonomics: Vicky and I On Ethnographic Data Wrapped in the Flag of Israel’s Bureaucracy: A Road Map Chapter 1. Left Is Right, Right Is Left: Zionism and Israel’s Single Mothers ¿ad Horit: Notes on the Hebrew Etymology of Single Motherhood The Typology of Israel’s Single Mothers On Zionism Why Mizräim Support the Right Wing Why Mizräi Feminists’ Hands Are Tied Chapter 2. Protesting and Belonging: When the Agency of Identity Politics Becomes Impossible Figurations of Agency Protesting and Belonging: An Argument in Six Parts Capturing and Conveying Elusive Bureaucratic Torture Chapter 3. Take 1: The GendeRace Essence of Bureaucratic Torture Classificatory Schemes of Bureaucratic Logic Negative Communitas: Bureaucracy’s “Tough Love” The Plus-Minus Model of Torture The Zone of Repulsion: Plus-Plus Relationships of Pain Documents as Implements of Torture Bureaucracy’s Essence: GendeRace Response to Bureaucracy: Bracketing Impossible Articulation, Impossible Agency Chapter 4. Take 2: Ideology, Welfare, and Single Mothers Chapter 5. Take 3: Diary of a Welfare Mother Chapter 6. The Price of National Security Knafoland—The End This Is Exactly What We Did Epilogue: Israel, Summer 2011 Afterword(s): Gaza 2014 and the Mizräi Predicament Bureaucratic Torture: When Agency Becomes Impossible Agency Torture One People One Heart: The War on Gaza 2014 The New Black Panthers, or HaLo Ne¿madim ¿ok HaHesderim 2014 Labor Hill B-Jamusin The ¿amas Salary Fiasco Operation Brother’s Keeper The War on Gaza—Protective Edge Under the Smokescreen of War Elections 2015: The Center Moves Further to the Right The Mizräi Cultural Renaissance The Steady Drumbeat of Eternal Return Acknowledgments Notes Glossary of Hebrew, Arabic, and Yiddish Terms References Index...
