Clash of Identities

Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies

Bibliographic Data

ID19909259
AuthorsBaruch Kimmerling (corresponding author)
Year2008
Pages464
Publication date2008-12-31
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueClash of Identities (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherColumbia University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.7312/kimm14328
OpenAlexW4240873398
Open LibraryOL24086089M
ISBN9780231143295
LanguageEN
Citations received19

By revisiting the past hundred years of shared Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli history, Baruch Kimmerling reveals surprising relations of influence between a stateless indigenous society and the settler-immigrants who would later form the state of Israel. Shattering our assumptions about these two seemingly irreconcilable cultures, Kimmerling composes a sophisticated portrait of one side's behavior and characteristics and the way in which they irrevocably shaped those of the other. Kimmerling focuses on the clashes, tensions, and complementarities that link Jewish, Palestinian, and Israeli identities. He explores the phenomena of reciprocal relationships between Jewish and Arab communities in mandatory Palestine, relations between state and society in Israel, patterns of militarism, the problems of jurisdiction in an immigrant-settler society, and the ongoing struggle of Israel to achieve legitimacy as both a Jewish and a democratic state. By merging Israeli and Jewish studies with a vast body of scholarship on Palestinians and the Middle East, Kimmerling introduces a unique conceptual framework for analyzing the cultural, political, and material overlap of both societies. A must read for those concerned with Israel and the relations between Jews and Arabs, Clash of Identities is a provocative exploration of the ever-evolving, always-contending identities available to Israelis and Palestinians and the fascinating contexts in which they take form

Agency (philosophy) · Archaeology · Art · Citizenship · Collective identity · Democracy · Identity (music) · Judaism · Militarism · National identity · Nationalism · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Settlement (finance) · Social science · Sociology · State (computer science) · Agricultural and Environmental Management · Belt and Road Initiative · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Anthropology · Cultural · Discrimination & Race Relations · Ethnic identity · Ethnic Studies · General · Group identity · Israel · Minority Studies · National security · Nonfiction · Palestine · Palestinian arabs · Political psychology · politics and government · Psychological aspects · Social aspects · Social aspects of Militarism · Social aspects of National security · Social sciences

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