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This Week’s New Book: Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel

06/21/2013 | | Anthropology, Human Rights & Law, Jewish Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Political Science, Security Studies

Now in Paperback
Security and Suspicion Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
Juliana Ochs
216 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus.
Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4291-1 | $47.50 | £31.00
Paper 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2266-1 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series

Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada, this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives, the book argues, security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent. Read more . . .

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