Politics of Memory
Israeli Underground's Confrontations Over Boundaries of State Pantheon
Price: $140.00
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-41239-1
- Binding: Hardback
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 1st August 2009 (Available for Pre-order)
- Pages: 224
About the Book
Providing a new angle on state control and political legitimacy, this book addresses the efforts of successive Israeli governments to establish their political dominance and legitimacy through the selective production and collective assimilation of cultural practices associated with bereavement and commemoration of those who fell on their country's behalf.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1. Conceptual Frameworks for a Politics of Bereavement 2. The Politics of Total Confrontation (1920-49) 3. The Political Sphere 4. Commemorative Landscapes: The Politics of Hegemony in Physical Space 5. The Language of Sovereignty 6. The Politics of Historiography 7. Incremental Subversion of Memory Monopoly 1963-77 8. Shared Memorial Retrieval-Post-1977 Political Turnabout. Conclusion: Private Versus Public Heroes