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

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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