The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts - Softcover

9780761935476: The Partition Motif in Contemporary Conflicts

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0761935479 ISBN 13: 9780761935476

Publisher: SAGE Publications Pvt. Ltd, 2007

This important book is a conversation across cultures on the theme of partition and its far-reaching sociological implications for communal patterns, generational dynamics, and individual lives. While the governing imagery of partition is drawn from the context of India and Pakistan, the analysis explores similar processes vis-�-vis Israel and Palestine and East and West Germany. Developing the concept of ′partition-societies′, the volume succinctly explains the social, economic, and political implications of such divisions.

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About the Author:

Eyal Ben-Ari was Professor of Anthropology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is currently Director of the Kinneret Center for Society, Security and Peace at Kinneret Academic College on the Sea of Galilee. He has carried out fieldwork on Japanese white-collar suburbs, institutions of early childhood education and the Japanese community in Singapore. In Israel, he has studied Jewish saint-worship and social and cultural aspects of the Israeli military. He is currently engaged in projects on Special Operations Forces, the Japanese Self-Defense Forces, anthropological approaches to civil-military relations and creativity in the creative industries.

Review:

A fine piece of research that explores tragic stories about partition of land in major countries across the world, this book also looks into people’s hearts....The book is reasonably priced for all the information that is packed in it. The editors have done a commendable job and papers have been selected carefully keeping all the major regions in mind. Besides research scholars, the book can be read by all those who are curious to have an impartial viewpoint.

Author: The Tribune

This book tries to grapple with partition both as reality and metaphor. It touches subjects as far apart as the East and West German divide, a Palestinian village on the Israeli border, Curzon and Bengal and even the Hindu-Muslim divide in Bhopal.

Author: ipcs.org

This important book is a dialogue on the theme of partition and its far-reaching sociological implications for communal patterns, generational dynamics and individual lives.

Author: ndtv.com

The book vividly explores the implications of partition motif for resolving contemporary conflicts. It also analyses post-partition transition of societies.... This book is a must read for the policy-makers as well as intellectuals, if not for lay readers who may find it a bit too pedantic to comprehend in totality. It also serves as a useful document on divided societies and their sense of rootlessness.

Author: The Pioneer

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