Israeli Backpackers
From Tourism to Rite of Passage
Published on 1. June 2006
Book
Paperback/Softback
268 pages
978-0-7914-6498-4 (ISBN)
Description
Examines the backpacking trip usually taken by Israeli youth following military service.
In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research-based on innovative fieldwork conducted with Israeli backpackers in Israel and abroad-this book depicts the complex relationship between the traveling youth and their society of origin. Via a perspective the editors term "outside-in," we learn how social and cultural tensions and tenets, identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out within a symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.
In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research-based on innovative fieldwork conducted with Israeli backpackers in Israel and abroad-this book depicts the complex relationship between the traveling youth and their society of origin. Via a perspective the editors term "outside-in," we learn how social and cultural tensions and tenets, identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out within a symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Albany, NY
United States
Target group
US School Grade: College Graduate Student and over
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 154 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7914-6498-4 (9780791464984)
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02/2012
1st Edition
De Gruyter
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Persons
Chaim Noy teaches in the Department of Communication at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Erik Cohen is George S. Wise Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is the author of many books, including Contemporary Tourism: Diversity and Change.
Content
Introduction: Backpacking as a Rite of Passage in Israel
Chaim Noy and Erik Cohen
1. Next Year in Kathmandu: Israeli Backpackers and the Formation of a New Israeli Identity
Ayana Shira Haviv
2. "Traveling Cultures": Israeli Backpackers, Deterritorialization, and Reconstruction of Home
Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Keren Bazini, Irit Gerstein, and Gali Kling
3. Israeli Backpackers: Narrative, Interpersonal Communication, and Social Construction
Chaim Noy
4. Young Adult Israeli Backpackers in India
Darya Maoz
5. Young Israelis' Long Trip Abroad, Backpacking in Asia and "Dwelling-Tourism" in Japan
Dalit Bloch-Tzemach
6. In Search of the Beautiful Land of Israel: Israeli Youth Voyages to Poland
Jackie Feldman
Conclusion: The Backpackers and Israeli Society
Erik Cohen and Chaim Noy
Contributors
Index
Chaim Noy and Erik Cohen
1. Next Year in Kathmandu: Israeli Backpackers and the Formation of a New Israeli Identity
Ayana Shira Haviv
2. "Traveling Cultures": Israeli Backpackers, Deterritorialization, and Reconstruction of Home
Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Keren Bazini, Irit Gerstein, and Gali Kling
3. Israeli Backpackers: Narrative, Interpersonal Communication, and Social Construction
Chaim Noy
4. Young Adult Israeli Backpackers in India
Darya Maoz
5. Young Israelis' Long Trip Abroad, Backpacking in Asia and "Dwelling-Tourism" in Japan
Dalit Bloch-Tzemach
6. In Search of the Beautiful Land of Israel: Israeli Youth Voyages to Poland
Jackie Feldman
Conclusion: The Backpackers and Israeli Society
Erik Cohen and Chaim Noy
Contributors
Index