Peripheral Nationhood
Negotiating Israeliness from the Margins of the State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2430588 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Thorleifsson (0000-0002-0357-0813, corresponding author), Cathrine Moe Thorleifsson |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 90 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 83-106 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropological Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-5491 • E-ISSN: 1534-1518 |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/anq.2017.0003 |
| OpenAlex | W2605733495 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 19 |
Like many development towns that were established in the aftermath of Israel's founding, Kiryat Shemona is situated on the demographic and geographic margins of the state: it sits on the border with Lebanon, and is in the Galilee region that has historically been a major center of Israel's Palestinian population. Particularly in moments of cross-border violence, Kiryat Shemona becomes a central margin, a place that is crucial to imagining the Israeli nation. For this reason, its inhabitants are imagined by others and often by themselves as steadfast and strong—qualities said to be at the center of Israeliness. At the same time, like other development towns, Kiryat Shemona's residents are mainly Mizrahim who were pushed to populate these marginal regions, and who constitute a majority of the Israeli Jewish population but also in many respects constitute an underclass vis-à-vis the historically Ashkenazi elite. Mizrahim, in such development towns, are thus marginal to the center of power, and vulnerable to the insecurity and poverty associated with these towns. While inhabiting precarious borderlands, they are crucial to the imagining of a bounded Jewish Israeli nation that must defend itself. This article demonstrates how Mizrahim strived to move themselves symbolically from the margins of exclusion to the center of inclusion by calling upon the nation and cosmopolitan connections. In everyday life, mizrahim marked ethicized boundaries against differentiated others, thus reinforcing the ethnoreligious logic of Israeli nationalism that historically pushed them to the margins of the state
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Modernity at large
Ethnic groups and boundaries
The Shrinking Space of Citizenship
A History of Modern Israel
Violent Geographies
The Absorption of Immigrants
Being Israeli
Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine
Ethics and aesthetics of memory in contemporary Mizrahi literature
The 1948 Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine
Tensions in israeli feminism
Between Universal Feminism and Particular Nationalism
Purity and Danger
Nationalism and Resistance
Unsettling Settler Societies
Mizrahi Subaltern Counterpoints
Did the Israeli State Engineer Segregation? On the Placement of Jewish Immigrants in Development Towns in the 1950s
Steps to an Ecology of Mind
My Life? There Is Not Much to Tell
| Unique citing works | 3 |
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| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2023 (6) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |