Routine Emergency: The Meaning of Life for Israelis Living Along the Gaza Border – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030959821,3030959821, 9783030959838, 303095983X

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 303095983X
• ISBN-13: 9783030959838
• Author: Julia Chaitin, Sharon Steinberg, Elad Avlagon, Shoshana Steinberg

This book explores the meaning of life for Israelis from communities bordering the Gaza Strip, whose lives are bound to the intractable conflict between Israel and the Hamas regime. Based on a psychosocial qualitative study of narrative interviews, photographs, YouTube videos, and Facebook posts created by residents, the book presents the life stories of ordinary people, their perspectives of patriotism and Zionism, and their perceptions of the Gazan Palestinians. Routine Emergency captures these perspectives through analyses of residents’ interviews and photographs, the social media materials and poems fashioned from interviewees’ words. The results challenge simplistic notions of what it means to live in this warzone, offering a multi-layered analysis of life in this region, which alternates between being Heaven and Hell. Written in a reader-friendly format, Routine Emergency, offers new theoretical insights into societal beliefs connected to living in an intractable warzone on the personal, family, community and national levels.

Table contents:

Part I

1. Otef Aza, the Israeli-Arab/Palestinian Conflict, and the War Relations with the Hamas Regime in the Gaza Strip

2. Methodology

Part II

3. Psycho-social Aspects of Living with the War

4. Routine Emergency, Emergency Routine, and War

5. I Am My Others’ Keeper: Mutual Concern, Belonging, Volunteerism, and Creation in the Otef

6. The State of the Western Negev Versus the State of Israel

7. Life in the Otef: It’s Complicated, Conflictual, Paradoxical

Part III

8. Patriotism and Zionism: A Review of the Literature

9. Otef Aza Residents’ Understandings of Patriotism and Zionism

10. Otef Aza Residents Talk About the Gazans

Part IV

11. Summary, Discussion, and Conclusions

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