The Work of Avishai Ehrlich

The Work of Avishai Ehrlich
Author: Nea Ehrlich
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2013-07-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 1443851124

This book is about Avishai Ehrlich, his life’s work in political sociology, his contribution to the field of sociology in Israel and his role as a public intellectual. The chapters include some of his articles, commentaries on his work and his public activism, and personal experiences and memories of Avishai as teacher and friend. The book will appeal to sociologists in general, particularly those whose interests include the Middle East conflict, Arab-Israeli relations and the various socio-political contexts within which the State of Israel evolves. A number of distinguished academics have contributed to this publication; they are also counted among Avishai Ehrlich’s closest friends and associates. Their contributions introduce the reader to an extraordinary person whose interests span a very wide range: from sociology, Marxist theory and political economy, to photography, botany and cooking! Avishai is currently reading Jewish and Islamic Philosophy at Tel Aviv University, and improving his knowledge of Arabic. This book is about his ideas, his work and the influence he wielded among his students, peers and friends.

Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914

Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914
Author: Gershon Shafir
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 320
Release: 1996-08-19
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780520917415

Gershon Shafir challenges the heroic myths about the foundation of the State of Israel by investigating the struggle to control land and labor during the early Zionist enterprise. He argues that it was not the imported Zionist ideas that were responsible for the character of the Israeli state, but the particular conditions of the local conflict between the European "settlers" and the Palestinian Arab population.

Corona and Work around the Globe

Corona and Work around the Globe
Author: Andreas Eckert
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2020-12-16
Genre: History
ISBN: 3110718243

This book provides a global perspective on the transformations in the world of work caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The collection of essays will break down the general statistics and trends into glimpses of concrete experiences of workers during pandemic, of workplaces transformed or destroyed, of workers protesting against political measures, of professions particularly exposed to the coronavirus, and also of the changing nature of some professions.

Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace

Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace
Author: Carmel Borg
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1474282806

In an age where official and sponsored violence are becoming normalised and conceived of as legitimate tools of peace keeping, a number of leading academics and activists represented in Pedagogy, Politics and Philosophy of Peace interrogate and resist the intensification of the militarisation of civil life and of international relations. Coming from different areas of study, the contributors to this volume discuss peace and critical peace education from a range of perspectives. The nature of peace, myths related to peace, the logistics of peace and peacemaking as well as the relation of peace and pedagogy in the broadest meaning of the term constitute the main themes of the book. The common thread that binds the chapters together is the distinction between genuine/authentic and false peace and the importance of critical reflection on actions that contribute to genuine peace.

Understanding the Middle East Peace Process

Understanding the Middle East Peace Process
Author: Asima Ghazi-Bouillon
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 457
Release: 2009-01-30
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 113597196X

Tracing the evolution of the Israeli academic debate over history, politics, and collective identity, Understanding the Middle East Peace Process examines the Middle East peace process since Oslo and follows the discursive struggle over Israeli collective identity. Based on interviews with key protagonists, this book gives a detailed analysis of the interrelatedness of academic debate, societal discourse, and collective identity against the background of major political events in Israel. It charts the ascendancy and expansion of post-Zionism, outlines the emergence of neo-Zionism from the political right, and the re-appropriation of Zionism in light of the new political climate of peace-making. Ghazi-Bouillon provides a new perspective on the failure of the New Historians to revolutionize Israeli intellectual life and the failure of post-Zionism to revolutionize Israeli political life, whilst assessing neo-Zionism’s potential to do both.

Can Academics Change the World?

Can Academics Change the World?
Author: Moshe Shokeid
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Total Pages: 214
Release: 2020-05-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1789206995

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). However, since the assassination of Prime Minister Rabin and the later obliteration of the Oslo accord, public manifestations of dissent on Israeli campuses have been remarkably mute. This chronicle of AD KAN is explored in view of the ongoing theoretical discourse on the role of the intellectual in society and is compared with other account of academic involvement in different countries during periods of acute political conflict.

Comrades and Enemies

Comrades and Enemies
Author: Zachary Lockman
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 459
Release: 1996-07-10
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0520204190

"A unique and welcome perspective which will challenge some and inspire others in the field. . . The scholarship involved, with its fluent familiarity with this extraordinary range of sources—a range which very few historians are capable of using—is remarkable, as is the quality of the prose, and the breadth and maturity of the judgments made. This book will become the standard work in a field where much has been written."—Rashid Khalidi, University of Chicago "An impressive achievement, subtle, nuanced, and yet firmly grounded in a mass of well-weighted and well-interrogated archival documents and memoirs. It is clearly the best book yet written on Mandatory Palestine."—Juan Cole, University of Michigan

International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace Operations

International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace Operations
Author: Michael Bothe
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 624
Release: 2021-10-01
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9004208437

International Peacekeeping is devoted to reporting upon and analyzing international peacekeeping with an emphasis upon legal and policy issues. It provides the interested public - civil servants, politicians, the military, academics, journalists, and others - with an up-to-date source of information on peacekeeping, enabling them to keep abreast of the most important developments in the field. This is achieved not only by the provision of 'basic documents' (on CD ROM), such as Security Council Resolutions or Reports from the UN Secretary-General, but also by expert commentaries on world events connected with peacekeeping operations. Thus, International Peacekeeping not only has a recording and documentary function, for those who wish to be kept well-informed, but also plays a role in forming opinions on the further development of peacekeeping as an instrument. Peacekeeping is treated in a pragmatic light, seen as a form of international military cooperation for the preservation or restoration of international peace and security, attention being focused primarily on UN peacekeeping operations. This yearbook is the continuation of the journal International Peacekeeping.

Unsettling Settler Societies

Unsettling Settler Societies
Author: Daiva Stasiulis
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 358
Release: 1995-08-11
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 9780803986947

`Settler societies' are those in which Europeans have settled and become politically dominant over indigenous people, and where a heterogenous society has developed in class, ethnic and racial terms. They offer a unique prism for understanding the complex relations of gender, race, ethnicity and class in contemporary societies. Unsettling Settler Societies brings together a distinguished cast of contributors to explore these relations in both material and discursive terms. They look at the relation between indigenous and settler//immigrant populations, focusing in particular on women's conditions and politics. The book examines how the process of development of settler societies, and the positions of indigenous and

Khamsin

Khamsin
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1983
Genre: Middle East
ISBN: