
The Idea of Israel
A History of Power and Knowledge
Ilan Pappe(Author)
Verso Books (Publisher)
Published on 4. February 2014
Book
Hardback
288 pages
978-1-84467-856-3 (ISBN)
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Description
Since Israel's foundation in 1948, one guiding idea has been the cornerstone of its identity, its politics and its actions: Zionism. In this groundbreaking new history, Ilan Pappe looks at the role of ideology in Israel's development, from its inception to the present day. In doing so, he considers the role of the country's universities, education system and media, looking at their production of knowledge and information, and the way such knowledge has been used to provide an ideological scaffolding for the state and to shape realities on the ground. He explores how, in the course of one decade, the Oslo years of the 1990s, this idea came under sustained questioning for the first time-since when, former critics have once more rallied round the national consensus. Was this episode, he asks, a one-off, or does it promise a new direction for Israel?
In exploring the links between academic and media institutions, and the state, The Idea of Israel explores a topic that resonates throughout the western world: the fraught interrelationship between the production of knowledge and the exercise of power.
In exploring the links between academic and media institutions, and the state, The Idea of Israel explores a topic that resonates throughout the western world: the fraught interrelationship between the production of knowledge and the exercise of power.
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Along with Edward Said, Ilan Pappe is the most eloquent writer of Palestinian history. * New Statesman * Israel's bravest, most principled, most incisive historian. -- John PilgerMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 25 mm
Weight
699 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84467-856-3 (9781844678563)
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Person
Ilan Pappe is an Israeli historian and socialist activist. He is a professor with the College of Social Sciences and International Studies at the University of Exeter, director of the university's European Centre for Palestine Studies, and co-director of the Exeter Centre for Ethno-Political Studies. He writes for, among others, the Guardian and the London Review of Books.