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Coffins on Our Shoulders - The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel (Paperback)
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"A fascinating work. Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker succeed not only in
challenging many basic assumptions and stereotypes about the
victims of the Arab-Israeli conflict, but also in undermining much
of the public discourse on the Palestinian minority inside Israel.
An outstanding work of scholarship combining social science
research tools with [auto-] biographic intimacy." --Salim Tamari,
Director, The Institute of Jerusalem Studies
""Coffins on Our Shoulders" is a profound, worrying, and insightful
excursion into the lives and times of a new generation of young
Palestinians in Israel. This unusually impressive volume makes it
clear how deeply a politics of difference, mounted in the name of
collective entitlement, calls into question the limits of liberal
democracy. "--John L. Comaroff, Professor, University of Chicago,
Research Fellow, American Bar Foundation
""Coffins on our Shoulders "is an absorbing portrait of
contemporary life in Israel. Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker give us a
thoughtful, multi-vocal chronicle about Jewish majority, and
Palestinian minority relations in Israel."--Susan Slyomovics,
Professor of anthropology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
and author of "The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the
Palestinian Village"
"Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker examine the making of a new generation of
Palestinians in Israel who are challenging the basic ideological
core of Israel as a self-defined Jewish state and redefining the
asymmetrical power configuration that governs the relationship
between the Jewish majority and the Palestinian minority within
Israel. This bifocal look, based on a very well-informed and
perceptive reading of the current scene in Israel, iscomplemented
by the personal narratives of the two authors, giving us an
illuminating and rare glimpse into the juxtaposed lives of real
people, across the divide."--Anton Shammas, professor of modern
Middle Eastern literature, University of Michigan
"The lucid sociological analysis of recent transformations in
patterns of political behavior and conceptions of self identity
among Israeli Palestinians becomes an opportunity for both authors
to reflect upon their own identity and personal history. The
juxtaposition of their two life stories, which have thrown them so
far apart yet kept them so close together, and the integration of
these stories into the theoretical analysis makes this book truly
moving and exceptional."--Adi Ophir, professor, The Cohn Institute
for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv
University
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