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Juliana Ochs - Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel - 9780812222661 - V9780812222661
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Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel

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Description for Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel Paperback. 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. Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence Series. Num Pages: 216 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1FBH; JHM; JKSW1. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 363.

In Israel, gates, fences, and walls encircle public spaces while guards scrutinize, inspect, and interrogate. With a population constantly aware of the possibility of suicide bombings, Israel is defined by its culture of security. Security and Suspicion is a closely drawn ethnographic study of the way Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives.
Observing security concerns through an anthropological lens, Juliana Ochs investigates the relationship between perceptions of danger and the political strategies of the state. Ochs argues that everyday security practices create exceptional states of civilian alertness that perpetuate—rather than mitigate—national fear and ongoing violence. In Israeli ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
University of Pennsylvania Press United States
Number of pages
216
Condition
New
Series
The Ethnography of Political Violence Series
Number of Pages
216
Place of Publication
Pennsylvania, United States
ISBN
9780812222661
SKU
V9780812222661
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About Juliana Ochs
Juliana Ochs is Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Princeton University Art Museum.

Reviews for Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
"[Security and Suspicion] is rich in ethnographic detail and balances attention to subjectivity, habits, rhetoric, and behavior. It is critical of structures and practices yet simultaneously deeply empathetic with the subjects who struggle to find peace amidst violence. The book's conclusion-that the practice of security might make Israelis feel less secure rather than more-is an intervention of tremendous significance. . ... Read more

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