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Understanding the Middle East Peace Process : Israeli Academia and the Struggle for Identity

ISBN: 9780415775977 | 0415775973
Edition: 1st
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Routledge
Pub. Date: 3/12/2009

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SummaryTable of Contents
Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israels sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the "New Historians", "post-Zionists" and "neo-Zionists".
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
Introducing a New Israel?p. 1
Making peace, raising questionsp. 1
Effects of the Oslo process on Israeli society and identityp. 2
Transition to a post-Zionist age?p. 6
New History, post-Zionism, neo-Zionismp. 8
Sources and methodologyp. 10
Power, Knowledge, and the Nation - Shaping, Writing, Knowingp. 12
... MOREp. 13
Facets of hegemony: Understanding national culturep. 16
Contested spaces: Discourses on national identityp. 19
Power/knowledge and the intellectualp. 21
The intellectual habitus: The role of history and the social sciencesp. 25
Political junctures/historical disjuncturesp. 29
Reimagination not resurrectionp. 32
Triumphs, Territories, and Troublemakersp. 34
Zionism: The establishment of a hegemonic discoursep. 34
Zionism: The establishment of political and economic hegemonyp. 40
The nature of hegemony and its inherent contradictionsp. 43
Challenging the discourse: The effects of the 1967 and 1973 Warsp. 47
Challenging the discourse: Israel's ethnic divisionsp. 49
Understanding the genesisp. 51
The Emergence and Works of the New Historiansp. 53
New historians, old historyp. 57
Initial motivationsp. 58
How much Change is change - the new gatekeepersp. 63
Careersp. 72
Becoming part of the establishmentp. 74
New History and new politics: From Oslo to the Second Intifadap. 76
Subtle challengesp. 84
The true potential of New Historyp. 87
The Promise of Post-Zionismp. 89
Confronting history and shaping discourse: Oslop. 91
Theoretical foundations of true post-Zionismp. 93
Israeli post-Zionismp. 94
Critical sociology on the marginsp. 95
Israel through the lens of colonial theoryp. 99
Post-Zionism, colonial theory, and the Palestiniansp. 100
Changing the discourse: Methodological and ideological strugglesp. 104
Post-Zionism and Israeli realpolitikp. 108
Gatekeeping and the future of post-Zionismp. 113
Neo-Zionist Responses - Seizing History, Shaping Policyp. 118
Confronting history and creating discourse - Camp Davidp. 118
National-religious neo-Zionism: A battle over the roots of Zionismp. 121
Cultural neo-Zionism and the battle over identityp. 126
The textbook debate: The battle over historyp. 131
Secular neo-Zionism: The battle over policyp. 137
The neo-Zionist challengep. 140
Conclusionp. 144
Struggles over identity and discourse in post-Second Intifada Israelp. 152
Epilogue: Israel's 'third way'?p. 153
List of Interviewsp. 159
Notesp. 161
Bibliographyp. 200
Indexp. 213
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