Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine (Hardcover)

Vered Weiss

ISBN 10: 1793653860 / ISBN 13: 9781793653864

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD, 2024

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Hardcover. Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress exposes the ways Israeli emergency routine leads to perpetual stress and trauma and explores how these conditions are overwhelmingly present in the cultural production of Israeli art and literature. The nine chapters engage with a variety of Israeli cultural artifacts, including poetry, prose, film, and graphic novels, and cast a wide temporal net, reaching from as early as the 1960s to 2019. In doing so, this collection sheds light upon the ramifications of the constant stress of the Israeli emergency routine on academic and cultural discourses and alerts readers to the effects of the physical world on the formulation of world views within social and political realities. Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress explores the ways stress associated with a prolonged state of war, traumas, and emergency routine produces culture. This book examines the ways Israeli "emergency routine" leads to perpetual stress and trauma that are o. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine (Hardcover)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, Lanham, MD
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1793653860
• ISBN 13: 9781793653864
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Israeli Culture and Emergency Routine: Normalizing Stress exposes the ways Israeli “emergency routine” leads to perpetual stress and trauma and explores how these conditions are overwhelmingly present in the cultural production of Israeli art and literature. The nine chapters engage with a variety of Israeli cultural artifacts, including poetry, prose, film, and graphic novels, and cast a wide temporal net, reaching from as early as the 1960s to 2019. In doing so, this collection sheds light upon the ramifications of the constant stress of the Israeli emergency routine on academic and cultural discourses and alerts readers to the effects of the physical world on the formulation of world views within social and political realities.

About the Author

Vered Weiss is the Serling Israeli Visiting Scholar and Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at The Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel at Michigan State University.

Avner Dinur is lecturer of Jewish studies at Sapir College.

Irit Ronen is PhD candidate at Ben Gurion University of the Negev and a teaching fellow at the Department of Multidisciplinary Studies at Sapir Academic College.