Understanding the Middle East Peace Process: Israeli Academia and the Struggle for Identity

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ISBN: 9780415775977 | 0415775973
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Copyright: 3/12/2009

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Asima Ghazi-Bouillon examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and how Israels sense of national identity has changed and been interpreted. In particular the book analyzes the highly contentious academic debates between the "New Historians", "post-Zionists" and "neo-Zionists".

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introducing a New Israel?	p. 1
Making peace, raising questions	p. 1
Effects of the Oslo process on Israeli society and identity	p. 2
Transition to a post-Zionist age?	p. 6
New History, post-Zionism, neo-Zionism	p. 8
Sources and methodology	p. 10
Power, Knowledge, and the Nation - Shaping, Writing, Knowing	p. 12
From nation to nation-state	p. 13
Facets of hegemony: Understanding national culture	p. 16
Contested spaces: Discourses on national identity	p. 19
Power/knowledge and the intellectual	p. 21
The intellectual habitus: The role of history and the social sciences	p. 25
Political junctures/historical disjunctures	p. 29
Reimagination not resurrection	p. 32
Triumphs, Territories, and Troublemakers	p. 34
Zionism: The establishment of a hegemonic discourse	p. 34
Zionism: The establishment of political and economic hegemony	p. 40
The nature of hegemony and its inherent contradictions	p. 43
Challenging the discourse: The effects of the 1967 and 1973 Wars	p. 47
Challenging the discourse: Israel's ethnic divisions	p. 49
Understanding the genesis	p. 51
The Emergence and Works of the New Historians	p. 53
New historians, old history	p. 57
Initial motivations	p. 58
How much Change is change - the new gatekeepers	p. 63
Careers	p. 72
Becoming part of the establishment	p. 74
New History and new politics: From Oslo to the Second Intifada	p. 76
Subtle challenges	p. 84
The true potential of New History	p. 87
The Promise of Post-Zionism	p. 89
Confronting history and shaping discourse: Oslo	p. 91
Theoretical foundations of true post-Zionism	p. 93
Israeli post-Zionism	p. 94
Critical sociology on the margins	p. 95
Israel through the lens of colonial theory	p. 99
Post-Zionism, colonial theory, and the Palestinians	p. 100
Changing the discourse: Methodological and ideological struggles	p. 104
Post-Zionism and Israeli realpolitik	p. 108
Gatekeeping and the future of post-Zionism	p. 113
Neo-Zionist Responses - Seizing History, Shaping Policy	p. 118
Confronting history and creating discourse - Camp David	p. 118
National-religious neo-Zionism: A battle over the roots of Zionism	p. 121
Cultural neo-Zionism and the battle over identity	p. 126
The textbook debate: The battle over history	p. 131
Secular neo-Zionism: The battle over policy	p. 137
The neo-Zionist challenge	p. 140
Conclusion	p. 144
Struggles over identity and discourse in post-Second Intifada Israel	p. 152
Epilogue: Israel's 'third way'?	p. 153
List of Interviews	p. 159
Notes	p. 161
Bibliography	p. 200
Index	p. 213
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