Can Academics Change the World? : : An Israeli Anthropologist's Testimony on the Rise and Fall of a Protest Movement on Campus / / Moshe Shokeid.

Moshe Shokeid narrates his experiences as a member of AD KAN (NO MORE), a protest movement of Israeli academics at Tel Aviv University, who fought against the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories, founded during the first Palestinian Intifada (1987-1993). However, since the assassination of...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2020
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
Series:EASA Series ; 39
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Physical Description:1 online resource (214 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: On Memory
  • 1 A Personal Note
  • 2 The First Palestinian Intifada
  • 3 Intellectuals’/Academics’ Engagement in the Public Forum
  • 4 Israeli Academics’ Political Involvement Prior to the First Intifada
  • 5 The Founding of AD KAN
  • 6 Opening the Sealed Box of AD KAN
  • 7 The Operation of a Protest Organization
  • 8 The Media Coverage
  • 9 The Moving Scene Observed from Afar and Near
  • 10 The Senate Debacle
  • 11 Raising the PLO Presence on Campus
  • 12 Toward the Last Stage
  • 13 The Aftermath: “When Prophecy Fails”
  • 14 Listening to AD KAN Veterans
  • 15 Past and Present Israeli Protestors Reconsidered
  • 16 Israeli and Other Critics’ Commentary on the Continuing Occupation
  • 17 Israeli Society Revisited: An Anthropological Perspective
  • Epilogue
  • References
  • Index