{"product_id":"the-disenchantment-of-the-orient-9780804754033","title":"The Disenchantment of the Orient","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA historical narrative of how Israeli expertise in Arab affairs has contributed to the creation of cultural separatism between Jews and Arabs, a separatism that exacerbates the conflict between the two peoples.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"At times provocative and always illuminating, the book provides an important...analysis of the history of \"expertise in Arab affairs\" in Israel.\" -- \u003ci\u003eAmerican Journal of Sociology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Gil Eyal's book will be seminal, if not downright explosive. The argument that something as big as the Palestinian\/Israeli conflict was influenced by something as pedestrian as a turf war among knowledge experts is surprising, well-documented, and elegantly argued.\" -- Aziza Khazzoom, University of California * Los Angeles *\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Disenchantment of the Orient\u003c\/i\u003e is at once an innovative study in the sociology of knowledge and an important contribution to understanding Israel and its relations to Arab society. Drawing on the analytic perspectives of Pierre Bourdieu and Michel Latour, Gil Eyal develops an original framework for understanding the production of knowledge, its transformation into legitimate expertise, and struggles over its deployment. It should be read not only by those interested in the Middle East but by all those interested in the organization of intellectual fields.\" -- Craig Calhoun, President, Social Science Research Council, and University Professor * New York University *\u003cbr\u003e\"This is a brilliant book that challenges basic assumptions of Orientalism and Orientalists in general, and of studies of Israeli society in particular. Gil Eyal brings together several disciplines typically studied in isolation—history of the Middle East, Jewish history, social history, and sociology—in a way that bridges all these fields and merges them into one intergrated story. This pioneering work is indeed a tour de force.\" -- Yehouda Shenhav * Tel Aviv University *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Acknowledgements  Introduction  Chapter 1: What is Mizrahanut? A Methodological Introduction  Chapter 2: The Jews Underneath the Arab's Mask: The Experience of the Orient in   the Pre-State Period  Chapter 3: The Field of Orientalist Expertise before 1948  Chapter 4: The Struggle Over Jurisdiction, 1948-1953  Chapter 5: The Discourse About the Arab Village  Chapter 6: Military Intelligence and Middle Eastern Studies  Conclusions  Appendix 1  Bibliography  Index","brand":"Stanford University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49405565632855,"sku":"9780804754033","price":84.15,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780804754033.jpg?v=1730492854","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-disenchantment-of-the-orient-9780804754033","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}