Secular feelings, settler feelings: the case of Palestine/Israel. Issue 1 (1st January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Gutkowski, Stacey
• Is Part Of: Religion, state & society. Volume 49:Issue 1(2021)
• Page Start: 41
• Page End: 60
• Publication Date: 2021-01-01
• Subjects: Israel -- Palestine -- secular -- emotion -- religion -- violence; Communism and religion -- Periodicals; Europe, Eastern -- Religion -- Periodicals; Former Soviet republics -- Religion -- Periodicals; 306.6
• DOI: 10.1080/09637494.2021.1890971
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0963-7494

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Scholars have not yet discussed how secular and settler-colonial emotions intersect in contexts such as Palestine/Israel. This article addresses the gap. It explores one case of settler, secular emotion, using data from a larger study on secular Jewish-Israeli millennials after the 2014 Gaza War. It analyses how the Jewish-Israeli settler experience problematises 'Jewish secular' feelings and vice versa. Stressing the need to study secular sentiments intersectionally, it offers Bourdieu's field and habitus as a new conceptual framework. This article argues that the dominant power dynamics within a given context will also predominantly shape people's emotions – though, critically, not always.