Can Academics Change the World? - An Israeli Anthropologist s Testimony on Rise Fall of a Protest

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). However, since the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin and the later obliteration of the Oslo accord, public manifestations of dissent on Israeli campuses have been remarkably mute. This chronicle of AD KAN is explored in view of the ongoing theoretical discourse on the role of the intellectual in society and is compared with other account of academic involvement in different countries during periods of acute political conflict.

List of contents

List of Illustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: On Memory

Chapter 1. A Personal Note

Chapter 2. The First Palestinian Intifada

Chapter 3.Intellectuals/Academics Engagement in the Public Forum

Chapter 4. Israeli Academics' Political Involvement Prior to the First Intifada

Chapter 5. The Founding of AD KAN

Chapter 6. Opening the Sealed Box of AD KAN

Chapter 7. The Working of a Protest Organization

Chapter 8. The Media Coverage

Chapter 9. The Moving Scene from Afar and Near

Chapter 10. The Senate Debacle

Chapter 11. Raising the PLO Presence on Campus

Chapter 12. Towards the Last Stage

Chapter 13. The Aftermath: When Prophecy Fails

Chapter 14. Listening to AD KAN Veterans

Chapter 15. Past and Present Israeli Protestors Reconsidered

Chapter 16. Israeli and other Critics' Commentary on the Continuing Occupation

Chapter 17. Israeli Society 2018: An Anthropological Perspective

Epilogue

References

Index

About the author

Moshe Shokeid is Professor Emeritus of Anthropology at Tel Aviv University. His major publications include Children of Circumstances (1988, Cornell), A Gay Synagogue in New York (1995, Columbia), and Three Jewish Journeys through an Anthropologist's Lens (2009, Academic Studies Press).

Product details

• Authors: Moshe Shokeid, Shokeid Moshe
• Publisher: BERGHAHN BOOKS, INC
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2020
• EAN: 9781789206982
• ISBN: 978-1-78920-698-2
• No. of pages: 206
• Series: EASA Series; Easa
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Naher und Mittlerer Osten, Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie, Ethnographie, Politik und Staat, Politics / Current Events, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Middle Eastern, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies, Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography, Pressure groups, protest movements and non-violent action, Social and cultural anthropology, Pressure groups & lobbying