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[Commlist] A new book: Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society

Fri Mar 20 10:47:50 GMT 2020





Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc and Gilad Padva are delighted to announce their new edited volume: Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society (published with Routledge, 2020). Providing an inclusive, yet multi- layered perspective on leisure cultures in dynamic hegemonic, subcultural, and countercultural communities, this volume investigates the disciplinary and interdisciplinary aspects of leisure studies in the age of mass migration, nationalism, cultural wars, and conflicted societies in Israel.

Israeli society has struggled with complicated geopolitical, intercultural, economic, and security conditions since the establishment of the State of Israel. Consequently, the emergent leisure cultures in Israel are vibrant, diversified, exuberant, and multifaceted, oscillating between Western and Middle Eastern tendencies. The chapters in this edited volume reflect dramatic influences of globalization on Israeli traditions, on one hand, and emergent local practices that reflect a communal quest of originality and authenticity, on the other hand. This book opens up a critical perspective on the tension between contested leisure cultures that are interconnected with spatial and temporal changes and interchanges. Examining leisure as a part of social, inter-ethnic, physical, gendered, and sexual changes, the volume is a key text for scholars and students interested in leisure culture, Israeli society, education, cultural and media studies, and the Middle East.

The diverse Chapters in Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society deal with leisure, consumption and freedom (Michelle Shir-Wise); mass vs. autonomous consumption of serious leisure in regard to its unexpected product (Tali Hayosh); Shabbat as a space without work (Elie Cohen-Gewerc); dark tourism as a controversial leisure enterprise in Israeli TV satire shows (Liat Steir-Livny); naked leisure, recreational and domesticated male bodies in an Israeli home design campaign (Gilad Padva and Sigal Barak-Brandes); Playboy as repressive leisure in regard to feminists confrontation of Israeli patriarchy (Michal Zeevi and Esther Hertzog); consumption practices that find individuality within conformist consumer culture (Tali Hayosh and Rakefet Erlich Ron); long-distance running as a serious leisure activity and iats influence on relationships within the family (Sima Zach and Assaf Lev); parent's initiatives in response to the challenge of leisure time for children with disabilities (Hagit Klibanski, Orit Gilr, and Drora Kfir); and an analysis of the sociohistorical understanding of the sabra, the genius, and the chess player as competing narratives.

For further details:

https://www.amazon.com/Leisure-Cultural-Israeli-Society-Routledge/dp/0367818930/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&qid=1584687761&refinements=p_28%3ALeisure+and+Cultural+Change+in+Israeli+Society&s=books&sr=1-1

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