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Author Sheldon, Ruth, author

Title Tragic encounters and ordinary ethics : Palestine-Israel in British universities / Ruth Sheldon
Published Manchester : Manchester University Press, [2016]
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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 200 pages) : illustrations
Series New ethnographies
New ethnographies.
Contents Introduction: unsettling subjects of justice and ethics -- Contested framings: democratic conflict and the public university -- Finding the words: towards ethical ethnography -- University melodramas: the claim of reason -- Tragic action: ambiguous passions and misrecognition -- Ordinary ethics: conversation, friendship and democratic possibilities -- Conclusion: good relations, freespeech and political activism -- Postscript: unfinished conversations
Summary "For over four decades, events in Palestine-Israel have provoked raging conflicts within British universities around issues of free speech, 'extremism', antisemitism and Islamophobia. But why is this conflict so significant for student activists living at such a geographical distance from the region itself? And what role do emotive, polarised communications around Palestine-Israel play in the life of British academic institutions committed to the ideal of free expression? This book draws on original ethnographic research with student activists on different sides of this conflict to initiate a conversation with students, academics and members of the public who are concerned with the transnational politics of Palestine-Israel and with the changing role of the public university. It shows how, in an increasingly globalised world that is shaped by entangled histories of European antisemitism and colonial violence, ethnography can open up ethical responses to questions of justice"--Publisher's description
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes In English
Online resource; title from electronic title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed February 1, 2019)
Subject Arab-Israeli conflict -- Protest movements -- Great Britain
Student movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Essays.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Government -- National.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Reference.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
Student movements
Universities and colleges
Great Britain
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Smith, Alexander Thomas T. (Alexander Thomas Telford), editor, writer of foreward.
LC no. 2017287295
ISBN 9781526108586
1526108585
9781526108579
1526108577
1526120704
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