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.

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: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.2024
• EAN: 9781805397212
• ISBN: 978-1-80539-721-2
• No. of pages: 214
• Series: EASA Series
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Israel, Tel-Aviv, 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