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Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration

Häftad, Engelska, 2010

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Examines how Israeli society has commemorated Yitzhak Rabin.How does a society cope with the challenge of acknowledging and commemorating difficult aspects of its past? In Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration, Vered Vinitzky-Seroussi develops a timely sociology of commemoration, drawing on the public memory of Israel's Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated at the end of a peace rally in Tel Aviv in 1995. She identifies and analyzes the building blocks from which commemoration is made: agency, space, time, and narrative. Acting as a guide, she leads the reader through monuments and gravestones, memorial services and political demonstrations, rituals both moving and banal, and individuals determined to remember, as well as those who wish to forget. Yitzhak Rabin's Assassination and the Dilemmas of Commemoration examines the meanings, boundaries, opportunities, and limits of commemoration, a phenomenon not unique to Israel but shared by many nations across the globe.

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Utgivningsdatum2010-07-02
Mått152 x 229 x 20 mm
Vikt318 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieSUNY series in Anthropology and Judaic Studies
Antal sidor227
FörlagState University of New York Press
ISBN9781438428321

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Antropologi inom Samhälle och politik
Mellanösterns historia inom Historia och arkeologi

"The empirical analysis is very rich and highlights the political divisions in Israeli society … the book is a valuable contribution to the study of Israeli politics and to a 'difficult past' that the literature has neglected." — Political Studies Review"Somewhat unconventionally but provocatively, sociologist Vinitzky-Seroussi locates in her acknowledgments how the 1995 assassination of Israel's prime minister prompted this study of the complexities and significance of commemoration. What follows is a richly theorized and well-researched exploration of the contours and toponymy of the 'map of memory' that locates Rabin as 'a highly present absence' in time and space." — CHOICE

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