The Contradictions of Israeli Citizenship Land Religion Land State Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Politics 1st Edition by Guy Ben Porat, Bryan Turner ISBN 0415782503 9780415782500

1. Introduction: Contemporary Dilemmas of Israeli Citizenship

• Comparative Citizenship Studies

• Citizenship, Equality and Political Struggle

• Israeli Citizenship: Rules of the Game

• The Citizenship Debate

• References

2. Collective Identities, Public Spheres, Civil Society and Citizenship in the Contemporary Era: With Some Observations on the Israeli Scene

• Changes in the Israeli Scene

  • IX

  • X

  • XI

  • XII

  • XIII

• References

3. Military Hierarchies and Collective Action

• Introduction

• The Republican Equation

• Israel’s Republican Equation and Its Violation

• Multiple Patterns of Collective Action

  • The Protest of the Ashkenazim

  • The Mizrahi and Religious Challenges

  • Women’s Organizations

• Conclusions

• References

4. Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion in the Israeli Welfare State: State-building and Political Economy

• Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion and the Political Economy of the Welfare State

• The Institutionalization of a Segmented Welfare State

• The Short and Limited Golden Age of the Israeli Welfare State

• The ‘Crisis of the Welfare State’ and the Neoliberal Project

• Conclusions

• Notes

• References

5. Corporatism and Multiculturalism as Responses to Ethnic Claims and Socio-economic Inequality: The Case of Shas

• Israeli Politics and Ethnicity

• A Society of Enclaves

• Corporatism

• Shas: A Conversion-led Movement

• Development of Shas

• A New Dimension to Israeli Jewish Citizenship

• Multiculturalism as a Variant of Corporatism

• Israel in Comparative Perspective

• Conclusion

• Notes

• References

6. Citizenship, Identity, and Ethnic Mobilization in Israel: The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow – Between Universalism and Particularism

• Introduction

• Mizrahim in Israel’s Citizenship Structure

  • Cultural Subordination

  • Socioeconomic Marginalization

  • Political De-Legitimization

• The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow’s Land and Housing Campaign

  • Background

  • Privatization of Land

  • Privatization of Public Housing

• The Universalism/Particularism Dilemma in the Rainbow’s Land and Housing Campaign: Between Theory and Praxis

  • Theory

  • Praxis

• Concluding Remarks

• Appendix

• Notes

• References

  • Court Rulings

  • From the Web (all retrieved on July 2, 2009)

  • Books and Articles

7. Fundamentalist Citizenships: The Haredi Challenge

• Introduction

• Fundamentalist Movements and the Nation-State

• Methods

• Fundamentalism in Israel

  • Haredim and the Army: Militarism without Military Participation

  • ZAKA Voluntarism: Haredim and the Management of Death

  • Yad Sarah: Medical Services and the Decline of the Welfare State

• Inclusive Fundamentalism and the Challenge of Citizenship

• Note

• References

8. NGOization of the Israeli Feminist Movement: Depoliticizing or Redefining Political Spaces?

• Logics of Late (Second) Modernity – Theoretical Remarks

• What is the Women’s Movement?

• The Women’s Movement and the Cost of NGOization

• The Israeli Case – Background Notes

• NGOization of the Israeli Women’s Movement

  • A Submerged Counter-Culture

  • The Politics of Doing

• Conclusion – Redefining Politics and Political Spaces

• Notes

• References

9. Parading Pridefully into the Mainstream: Gay and Lesbian Immersion in the Civil Core

• Prologue

• Pre-Pride Era

• Era of Immersion

  • Formal Institutions

  • Media Representation

  • Sphericule Media

  • Family

• Conclusion: Struggling to Overcome Exclusion

• Notes

• References

10. Inward Turns: Citizenship, Solidarity and Exclusion

• Minorities and the State

• The Palestinian Citizens of Israel

• The Promise of Peace

• The Inward Turn of Israeli Society

  • National Unity and Political Exclusion

  • Security and Demography

  • National Unity, the Fence and the Gaza Withdrawal

• Arab Citizens’ Re-defined Struggle

• State of the Division

• Conclusion

• References

11. Civic Associations, Empowerment and Democratization: Arab Civil Society in Israel

• Debating Civil Society and Its Ambivalent Role

• Debating Arab Civil Society in Israel

• Activating Arab Citizenship and the Politics of Contention in Israel

• Causes Behind the Gradual Expansion of Arab Civic Associations Sector

  • Internal Negative Factors

  • External Negative Factors

  • Internal Positive Factors

  • External Positive Factors

• Impact and Implications of the Growth in the Arab NGO Sector in Israel

  • Civic Associations and Democratization

  • Civic Associations and Empowerment

  • Civic Associations and Development

• Conclusions

• Notes

• References

12. All by Myself? The Paradox of Citizenship among the FSU Immigrants in Israel

• Russian Immigrants’ Non-liberal Political Attitudes in Israel

• Civic Passiveness of Russians in Israel and Non-belief in Their Ability to Influence

• Citizenship and Political Behavior in the USSR

• Current Research

  • Political Identity of Russians in Israel: Patriotism and Sacrifice

  • Political Ineffectiveness and Political Non-involvement Beyond Elections

  • Perceptions of Citizenship of Russians in Israel

  • Emigration – Solving the Problems on a Personal Level

• Concluding Discussion: Practical Approach Toward the State

• Notes

• References

13. The Rise and Fall of Liberal Nationalism

• Introduction

• The Ethno-Republican Incorporation Regime

• Liberalization and Its Discontents

• Ethno-Nationalist Opposition to Liberalization

• The Decline of Political Liberalism