{"product_id":"ethnocracy-9780812239270","title":"Ethnocracy","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An important book which adds the often neglected angle of political geography to the growing body of critical research on the Israeli state and society, and on the Jewish-Arab conflict.\"-Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Yiftachel's admirable work attempts both to characterise the nature of the Israeh state and to draw moral implications from such characterisation. On the basis of his analysis Yiftachel offers his vision for what he and many others refer to as 'Israel-Palestine'. Yiftachel asks, and attempts to answer, two interrelated questions: first, 'what kind of a polity is the state of Israel?', and second, 'what kind of a society is Israeh society?' Conventional wisdom would answer both questions with the word 'democratic'. However, Yiftachel's book masterfully challenges such an answer. His claim is that the state of Israel, uncritically dubbed as 'Jewish-democratic', belongs to a group of states that ought to be referred to as 'ethnocracies'. Israeli society is also an ethnocratic society.\" * Holy Land Studies *\u003cbr\u003e\"A thoughtful, humane, and arresting book. . . . It ranges widely, contributing to a number of discussions in political geography, political sociology, and planning.\" * \u003ci\u003ePlanning Theory\u003c\/i\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"An important book that adds the often neglected angle of political geography to the growing body of critical research on the Israeli state and society, and on the Jewish-Arab conflict.\" * Baruch Kimmerling, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface    PART I. SETTINGS   1. Introduction   2. The Ethnocratic Regime: The Politics of Seizing Contested Territory    PART II. ETHNOCRACY AND TERRITORY IN ISRAEL\/PALESTINE   3. Zionist and Palestinian Nationalism: The Making of Territorial Identities   4. Debating Israeli Democracy   5. The Making of Ethnocracy in Israel\/Palestine   6. The Spatial Foundation: the Israeli Land System    PART III. ETHNOCRACY AND ITS PERIPHERIES: PALESTINIAN ARABS AND MIZRAHIM   7. Fractured Regionalism among Palestinian Arabs in Israel   8. Bedouin Arabs and Urban Ethnocracy in the Beer-Sheva Region   9. Mizrahi Identities in the Development Towns: The Making of a Third Space   10. Between Local and National: Mobilization in the Mizrahi Peripheries    PART IV. LOOKING AHEAD   11. A Way Forward? The Planning of a Binational Capital in Jerusalem   12. Epilogue: A Demos for Israel\/Palestine? Toward Phased Binationalism    Notes   Appendix   References   Index","brand":"University of Pennsylvania Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405712531799,"sku":"9780812239270","price":59.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780812239270.jpg?v=1730493367","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ethnocracy-9780812239270","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}