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Author Ochs, Juliana

Title Security and suspicion : an ethnography of everyday life in Israel / Juliana Ochs
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (204 pages) : illustrations
Series The ethnography of political violence
Ethnography of political violence.
Contents Introduction: the practice of everyday security -- A genealogy of Israeli security -- Senses of security : rebuilding Cafe Hillel -- Paad : fear as corporeal politics -- Embodying suspicion -- Projecting security on the city -- On IKEA and army boots : the domestication of security -- Seeing, walking, securing : tours of Israel's separation wall -- Epilogue: real fantasies of security
Summary Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada, this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives, the book argues, security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent
Analysis "Multi-User"
Notes OldControl:muse9780812205688
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-195) and index
Notes In English
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Subject Arab-Israeli conflict -- Influence
Terrorism -- Israel -- Prevention
Survival -- Israel -- Psychological aspects
Terrorism -- Israel -- Psychological aspects
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Arab-Israeli conflict -- Influence
Survival -- Psychological aspects
Terrorism -- Prevention
Terrorism -- Psychological aspects
Israel
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2010017607
ISBN 9780812205688
0812205685
1283891123
9781283891127
0812242912
9780812242911
0812222660
9780812222661