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The Ultimate Mission to Israel: discorso pubblico e sicurezza dei militari israeliani
No full textThis article reports the participation in an eight-day military tour in Israel organized by an Israelian association in 2007. The aim is to describe the construction of the Israelian military's public discourse with regard to the history and security of the State of Israel. The author visited places of importance (museums, military bases and courts, ministries and kibbutzim), observed institutional ceremonies, and listened to the discourse of witnesses (Mossad agents, Shin Bet commanders, members of the armed forces, judges, war heroes and kibbutzniks). In particular, the politico-military construction of conflict, self-narration by various kinds of witnesses, and denial of the Palestinian enemy were examined
Manuel Castells, Networks of Outrage and Hope. Social Movements in the Internet Age. Cambridge: Polity Press, 2012, 200 pp.
No full textMemories, myths and representations of a contested land
No full textIsrael and Palestine, over the course of their historical conflict, have created a complex patchwork of memory narratives dealing with different representations of the same landscape. The article examines how the two peoples have elaborated their narratives of national identity by practicing a pre-modern repertoire to shape a modern identity, and by knitting together their collective, multiple visions of the land. Israelis and Palestinians have used space as a temporal-spatial tool to practice the remembering of lost land and to elaborate an imaginative geography. Attention is focused on the relations created by the process of dreaming/imagining space, and on the intricacies, denials, oblivion and ambivalence related to memory construction
Voicing the silence: the naturalisation of violence under the rule occupation
Full text linkThis article addresses the relevance of Israeli soldier narrations in which they bear witness to human agency under conflict and adversity to call for the end of the occupation of the Palestinian territories. The soldiers, members of the NGO Breaking the Silence, speak up about the occupation, showing the conflicting experiences of military and civilian life in a society that normalises the denial of military human rights violations. By asking Israeli society to listen to their stories, the soldiers’ accounts show how the historic military power in the Occupied Palestine Territories (OPT) has evolved into a naturalisation of violence that generates a radical configuration of intractability, which has transformed the perception and meaning of violence.
By framing the soldiers’ accounts in the space fragmentation and securitisation practices, the article argues how the asymmetrical use of force is exerted to manage and control the lives of the Palestinian population. The speech act addresses the ethics of doing something to make a difference in the conflict and the wish to renew social bonds, redefine pride and shame and return a sense of honour, loyalty and self-respect
La violence en Sardaigne .La parole et le fusil contre l'Etat
No full textL'originalité de la violence en Sardaigne est dans la coexistence d'un pole rural (vol de bétail, vendetta et enlèvements suivis de rancons) et d'un pole politique plus moderne, qui vient culminer à la fin des années 70 avec le terrorisme des Brigades Rouges. Deux versants qui ne sont pas justifiables de la meme interprétation. La crise d'une société bloquée qui se replier sur soi-meme qui refuse l'appareil institutionnel de l'Etat. pour les acteurs de la violence politique le refus de l'Etat est porteur de la contestation de sa légitimité à l'exercice du monopole de la violence. Fondé sur une interrogation directe des acteurs, ce travail à la capacité d'évoquer une présence vécu
Leonie Fleischmann, The Israeli Peace Movement. Anti-Occupation activism and Human Rights since the Al-Aqsa Intifada, New York, I.B. Tauris, 2019, pp. 248
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