"From the river to the sea, humanity will be free" - the dynamics of the new civil society in Israel: Proceedings of the 9th Conference of the European Sociological Association, 2-5 September 2009, Lisbon, Portugal ; RS14 – Chronic Regional Conflicts

Abstract: This paper argues that a new civil society is emerging in Israel that is fundamentally distinct from the old state-led civil society. Its core organising logic is cosmopolitan, universalist and post-Zionist, expanding its sphere of contestation to challenge the ethno-nationalist and communitarian basis of the enduring Zionist societal consensus. The implications of this phenomenon are uniquely profound for the Israeli context. A cosmopolitan post-Zionist civil society challenges the raison d'être of the state in its current ethno-nationalist construction, calling for the inclusion of marginalised groups into its sphere. The Jewish people have for long debated the merits of universalist ethics vis-à-vis particularistic considerations. The horrors of the Holocaust tilted the balance of the debate in favour of the communitarians, culminating with the establishment of the state of Israel as a Jewish national home. More recently, a growing interconnectedness of social relations has forc

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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
Umfang
Online-Ressource
Sprache
Englisch
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Veröffentlichungsversion
begutachtet

Klassifikation
Politik

Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wo)
London
(wann)
2009
Urheber
Lunat, Ziyaad

URN
urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-63622
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  • Lunat, Ziyaad

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  • 2009

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