Soldiering under occupation processes of numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada /

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Main Author: Grassiani, Erella
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
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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.