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Zionist Arabesques

Modern Landscapes, Non-Modern Texts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2010

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Zionist Arabesques is an ethno-historical account of the landscape of the Jezreel Valley in Israel and explores how the modern landscape of the valley has been created, both physically and symbolically, from the perspective of both local and large-scale processes. It addresses not only the guiding principles of modern Israeli agriculture, its connection to Zionist settlement and ideology, and the evolvement of the Arab-Jewish conflict, but also examines the relevance of law, State policies and sector based politics, being a mixture of archival and ethnographic material composed with a unique textual structure. The book is useful for those interested in Zionism and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well in experimental writing styles.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2010-08-19
Mått155 x 234 x 17 mm
Vikt526 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieIsrael: Society, Culture, and History
Antal sidor250
FörlagAcademic Studies Press
ISBN9781934843789

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Introduction: The Field, the Ethnography and the Anthropologist. Chapter One: Conventional and Environmental Agriculture: The Modern, Anti-Modern and Non Modern Landscapes. Chapter Two: From Europe to the Middle East: Blossoming the Desert, Cultivating the Land of Israel. Chapter Three: The State as a Plot: Who Owns the Land, Who Plans the Landscape. Conclusions: Writing the Ethnographic Text: The Power of Words. Notes. Works Cited. Index.

“… a compelling, original and well written piece of scholarship, and also a work of real passion and subtlety. Zionist Arabesques focus(es) on the material, experienced reality of Zionism, its phenomenology in the Israeli/Palestinian landscape. Evil or bad intentions lose meaning and instead we focus on grids and trees, cows, borders, documents, narratives. In this way, the impact of Zionism gains a new meaning: a specific form of interaction of the modern and the non-modern (in the contradictory aspirations and worldviews of Zionist settlers between spatial geometry, markets and romanticism), meeting yet another form of interaction of the modern and non-modern (in the experience of the Palestine/Israeli landscape). As such, Zionist Arabesques should be of interest to a wide audience, including not only anthropologists but also historians, critical theorists and the general public interested in the fates of Zionism – or of modernism.”