Abstract
How do secular Jewish Israeli millennials feel about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, having come of age in the shadow of the failed Oslo peace process, when political leaders have used ethno-religious rhetoric as a dividing force? This is the first book to analyse blowback to Palestinian and Jewish-Israeli religious nationalism among this group in their own words. It is based on fieldwork, interviews and surveys conducted after the 2014 Gaza War. Offering a close reading of the lived experience and generational memory of participants, it offers a new explanation for why attitudes to Occupation have grown increasingly conservative over the past two decades. It examines the intimate emotional ecology of Occupation, offering a new argument about neo-Romantic conceptions of citizenship among this group. Beyond the case study, it also offers a new theoretical framework and research methods for researchers and students studying emotion, religion, nationalism, secularism and political violence around the world.
| Original language | English |
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| Publisher | Manchester University Press, Manchester |
| Number of pages | 289 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9781526139993 |
| Publication status | Published - 20 Oct 2020 |
Keywords
- Israel/Palestine
- Youth
- conflict
- Secularism
- Religion
- nationalism
- Emotion