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Conscientious Objectors in Israel - Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty (Hardcover)
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Conscientious Objectors in Israel - Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty (Hardcover)
Series: The Ethnography of Political Violence
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In Conscientious Objectors in Israel, Erica Weiss examines the
lives of Israelis who have refused to perform military service for
reasons of conscience. Based on long-term fieldwork, this
ethnography chronicles the personal experiences of two generations
of Jewish conscientious objectors as they grapple with the pressure
of justifying their actions to the Israeli state and society-often
suffering severe social and legal consequences, including
imprisonment. While most scholarly work has considered the causes
of animosity and violence in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict,
Conscientious Objectors in Israel examines how and under what
circumstances one is able to refuse to commit acts of violence in
the midst of that conflict. By exploring the social life of
conscientious dissent, Weiss exposes the tension within liberal
citizenship between the protection of individual rights and
obligations of self-sacrifice. While conscience is a strong
cultural claim, military refusal directly challenges Israeli state
sovereignty. Weiss explores conscience as a political entity that
sits precariously outside the jurisdictional bounds of state power.
Through the lens of Israeli conscientious objection, Weiss looks at
the nature of contemporary citizenship, examining how the
expectations of sacrifice shape the politics of both consent and
dissent. In doing so, she exposes the sacrificial logic of the
modern nation-state and demonstrates how personal crises of
conscience can play out on the geopolitical stage.
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