Soldiering under occupation : processes of numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada / / Erella Grassiani.
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| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | xv, 148 p. :; ill. |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Understanding Israeli soldiers
- Israel: a militarized society
- Uprisings
- Soldiers as perpetrators
- Misbehaviour and violence
- Conclusion
- Studying soldiers
- Becoming or being a perpetrator
- Space, power, (mis)behaviour and morality
- Physical closeness and distance
- Constructed moralities in speech
- Moral disengagement and denial
- Perpetrators' accounts
- Conclusion
- Checkpoints, arrests and patrols: spaces of occupation
- Policing by soldiers: dirty work
- Checkpoints: obstruction of passage
- Arrests and 'straw widows': entering the private Palestinian domain
- Patrolling
- Conclusion
- Performing as occupiers: operational dynamics
- Routine
- Relations of power
- Tired, bored and scared: emotional, physical and cognitive numbing
- Anger, boredom, frustration and more: the emotional dimension
- Hot, cold and tired: the physical dimension
- Unclear categories and uncertainty: implications of the cognitive dimension
- Conclusion
- Blurring morals: the numbed moral competence of soldiers
- Moral professionalism
- Cognitive blurring
- Detachment: 'not thinking about it'
- Conclusion
- Morality in speech: discursive strategies of soldiers
- The minimization of moral agency
- Professionalism (miktsoayut)
- Bottom-up: soldiers' talk
- Strategic talk
- Ideology
- No need for explanation
- Critical voices: moral re-sensitizing
- Conclusion
- Conclusion
- The systemic approach: taking the Israeli case outside of its borders.