{"product_id":"wrapped-in-the-flag-of-israel-9781496205544","title":"Wrapped in the Flag of Israel","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e, Smadar Lavie analyzes the racial and gender justice protest movements in the State of Israel from the 2003 Single Mothers’ March to the 2014 New Black Panthers and explores the relationships between these movements, violence in Gaza, and the possibility of an Israeli attack on Iran.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Lavie equates bureaucratic entanglements with pain—and, arguably, torture—in examining a state that engenders love and loyalty among its non-European Jewish women citizens while simultaneously inflicting pain on them. Weaving together memoir, auto-ethnography, political analysis, and cultural critique, \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel \u003c\/i\u003epresents a model of bureaucracy as divine cosmology that is both lyrical and provocative. Lavie’s focus on the often-minimized Mizra?i population juxtaposed with the state’s monolithic culture suggests that Israeli bureaucracy is based on a theological notion that inserts the categories\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Thick, accusative, and critical, \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e is indeed a must-read for all.”—Anne de Jong, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Anthropologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Important and provocative. . . . Recommended to researchers, postgraduate students, and undergraduates who are interested in Israel\/Palestine, political protest, discrimination, and the anthropology of the state.”—Tobias Kelly, \u003ci\u003eJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Incredibly insightful conceptually but also powerful politically. It does not merely challenge conceptual frameworks and academic canons but actively undoes them through shifting and diverse modes of writing.”—Adi Kuntsman, \u003ci\u003eJournal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Engaging and insightful. . . . The book makes an important contribution to the literature, demonstrating that throughout the history of Israel, the Jewish immigrants of European descent have retained their privileged socioeconomic position and maintained claims to cultural superiority over communities coming from Asia and the Middle East. \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e is an important ethnography of Mizrahi women and an excellent addition to anthropology of Israel.”—Yulia Egorova, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Ethnologist\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lavie’s study is solid, scrupulously researched and documented and has the ring of truth that comes from the personal experience of a researcher who has had to live through her fieldwork situation in a manner that few anthropologists experience. . . . Lavie has created a text whose insights and analysis extend far beyond her admirable Israeli study.”—William O. Beeman, \u003ci\u003eAnthropological Quarterly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lavie raises important questions about victimhood and agency pertinent to the study of the subaltern. . . . This book is not just a unique contribution to understanding gender and race in state bureaucracy and the operations of nationalism in the Middle East; it will interest anyone studying the disenfranchised and their everyday life, something that almost always involves ‘bureaucratic torture.’ . . . \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e exposes how inhumanity can be normalized and can thrive in any modern liberal democracy.”—Sealing Cheng, \u003ci\u003eAsian Anthropology\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lavie’s meticulous ethnographic work and pointed theoretical analysis explain the hopelessness of social protest and problematize the concept of agency in the context of intra-Jewish conflict in Israel; in this Lavie also addresses the ramifications of Mizrahi marginalization on the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict.”—Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, \u003ci\u003eCultural Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lavie illustrates how asking difficult, troubling questions that disturb taken-for-granted silences can be an important strategy of resistance. In doing so, \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e offers theoretical and political insights that extend beyond Israel’s undeclared borders.”—Simona Sharoni\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eJournal of Palestine Studies\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Lavie has written a brave and scholarly auto-ethnography using an extended case study method, of a social movement in contemporary Israel. . . . With theoretical sophistication and granular accounts of day-to-day struggles of her own and other single mothers’ efforts to survive and gain access to resources and entitlements as Israelis . . . This is a painful account well worth reading. Social workers from many nations who are involved in difficult macro- and mezzo-practice would find illuminating the many elements of social movement activity and peer-group support that Lavie characterizes and theorizes so powerfully.”—Barbara Levy Simon, \u003ci\u003eAffilia: Journal of Women and Social Work\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“At the crossroads between a coursebook, a piece of writing about life and a feminist manifesto, \u003ci\u003eWrapped in the Flag of Israel\u003c\/i\u003e . . . [is] both an enlightening insight into Israeli intra-racism and an original and valuable connection between two seemingly unrelated concepts: bureaucracy and torture.”—Sorina Georgescu\u003cb\u003e, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eHypercultura\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNote on Transliteration    \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Introduction: Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Single Mothers     “Reaganomics,” Ḥok HaHesderim, and the Oslo Boomtime\u003cbr\u003e      The Hudna\u003cbr\u003e      Knafonomics: Vicky and I\u003cbr\u003e      On Ethnographic Data\u003cbr\u003e      Wrapped in the Flag of Israel’s Bureaucracy: A Road Map\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 1. Left Is Right, Right Is Left: Zionism and Israel’s Single Mothers     Ḥad Horit: Notes on the Hebrew Etymology of Single Motherhood\u003cbr\u003e      The Typology of Israel’s Single Mothers\u003cbr\u003e      On Zionism\u003cbr\u003e      Why Mizraḥim Support the Right Wing\u003cbr\u003e      Why Mizraḥi Feminists’ Hands Are Tied\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 2. Protesting and Belonging: When the Agency of Identity Politics Becomes Impossible     Figurations of Agency\u003cbr\u003e      Protesting and Belonging: An Argument in Six Parts\u003cbr\u003e      Capturing and Conveying Elusive Bureaucratic Torture\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 3. Take 1: The GendeRace Essence of Bureaucratic Torture     Classificatory Schemes of Bureaucratic Logic\u003cbr\u003e      Negative Communitas: Bureaucracy’s “Tough Love”\u003cbr\u003e      The Plus-Minus Model of Torture\u003cbr\u003e      The Zone of Repulsion: Plus-Plus Relationships of Pain\u003cbr\u003e      Documents as Implements of Torture\u003cbr\u003e      Bureaucracy’s Essence: GendeRace\u003cbr\u003e      Response to Bureaucracy: Bracketing\u003cbr\u003e      Impossible Articulation, Impossible Agency\u003cbr\u003e  Chapter 4. Take 2: Ideology, Welfare, and Single Mothers\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 5. Take 3: Diary of a Welfare Mother\u003cbr\u003e Chapter 6. The Price of National Security     Knafoland—The End\u003cbr\u003e      This Is Exactly What We Did\u003cbr\u003e      Epilogue: Israel, Summer 2011\u003cbr\u003e  Afterword(s): Gaza 2014 and the Mizraḥi Predicament     Bureaucratic Torture: When Agency Becomes Impossible\u003cbr\u003e      Agency\u003cbr\u003e      Torture\u003cbr\u003e One People One Heart: The War on Gaza 2014\u003cbr\u003e      The New Black Panthers, or HaLo Neḥmadim\u003cbr\u003e      Ḥok HaHesderim 2014\u003cbr\u003e      Labor Hill B-Jamusin\u003cbr\u003e      The Ḥamas Salary Fiasco\u003cbr\u003e      Operation Brother’s Keeper\u003cbr\u003e      The War on Gaza—Protective Edge\u003cbr\u003e      Under the Smokescreen of War\u003cbr\u003e      Elections 2015: The Center Moves Further to the Right\u003cbr\u003e The Mizraḥi Cultural Renaissance\u003cbr\u003e The Steady Drumbeat of Eternal Return\u003cbr\u003e  Acknowledgments\u003cbr\u003e Notes    \u003cbr\u003e Glossary of Hebrew, Arabic, and Yiddish Terms\u003cbr\u003e References\u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"University of Nebraska Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409219625303,"sku":"9781496205544","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496205544.jpg?v=1730506006","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/wrapped-in-the-flag-of-israel-9781496205544","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}