Tragic encounters and ordinary ethics : Palestine-Israel in British universities /: Palestine-Israel in British universities. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Ruth Sheldon.
• Authors: Sheldon, Ruth
• Editors: Smith, Alexander
• Contents: Cover; Half Title; Series information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Series editor's foreword; Introduction: unsettling subjects of justice and ethics; Unsettling spaces: the abnormal justice of Palestine- Israel; Unsettling histories of victimhood: uncovering thetragic politics of Palestine- Israel; Unsettling theoretical frameworks: language, embodied experience and truth; Violent conflict and ordinary ethics; Ethnographic imaginaries; Chapter outline; Notes; 1 Contested framings: democratic conflict and the public university The evolving framings of campus conflicts: a historical perspective on student activism around Palestine-.IsraelThe dominant frame of the liberal nation-.state: rights, responsibilities and 'good relations'; Political secularism and the 'problem' of Islamic identifications with Palestine; Framing a model minority: Jewish insecurity and support for Israel; Demanding dialogue: framing the boundaries and grammars of mutual recognition; Contesting frames: invoking counter-.publics and diasporic grammars; Situating the public university Exploring institutional contexts: multisited ethnography and my selection of field sitesConclusion: beyond 'framings'; Notes; 2 Finding the words: towards ethical ethnography; Approaching fieldwork: fascination, unsettlement and imagination; Theoretical neutralisation and distancing; Becoming an implicated ethnographer: Ruth Schwarcmann Katz; Assimilated names: understanding and arrogation; The limits of secular naming: acknowledging closeness; Diasporic names: beyond Zionism/.anti-.Zionism; Naming responsibilities: acknowledging singularity and differences Theoretical responsibilities: towards and beyond vocabularies of traumaConclusion; Notes; 3 University melodramas: the claim of reason; The enactment of melodrama: staging a debate on the academic boycott of Israel; Affirming the ground rules; Personalising moral dichotomies, elevating rational expertise; Commencing struggles for 'universal' values: scientific progress and academic freedom; Enacting the prefigured plot; Ambiguity, irony and the democratic decision; Affirming the liberal university: 'a story they tell themselves about themselves'8 The paradox of academic melodrama: producing ironic subjectsContextualising the debate: the intensification of counterextremist and anti-.racist politics; Excluding 'irrational others': Orientalist, secular and postmodern anxieties; The value of the public university: pressures of marketisation, apathy and reputation; The affordances of melodrama; Tensions of melodramatic experience: embodying and unsettling the claim of reason; When justification comes to an end: exclusions, repression and the unravelling of consensus; Conclusion; Notes; 4 Tragic action: ambiguous passions and misrecognition
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 320.54095694; Arab-Israeli conflict -- Protest movements -- Great Britain; Student movements -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; Universities and colleges -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Essays; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / General; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / National; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Reference; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526108586; 1526108585; 9781526108579; 1526108577
• Related ISBNs: 9781784993146; 178499314X
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-194) and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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