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

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Often, violent behavior or harassment from a soldier is dismissed by the military as unacceptable acts by individuals termed, "rotten apples." In this study, the author argues that this dismissal is unsatisfactory and that there is an urgent need to look at the (mis)behavior of soldiers fr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grassiani, Erella
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Berghahn Books, 2013.
Edición:1st ed.
Temas:
Al-Aqsa Intifada, 2000- > Atrocities.
Soldiers > Israel > Social conditions.
Soldiers > Israel > Moral conditions.
Soldiers > Israel > Attitudes.
Apathy.
Military ethics > Israel.
Military government > Israel.
Human rights > Israel.
Human rights > West Bank.
Human rights > Gaza Strip.
Intifada d'Al-Aqsa, 2000- > Atrocités.
Apathie.
Morale militaire > Israël.
Gouvernement militaire > Israël.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Israël.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Cisjordanie.
Droits de l'homme (Droit international) > Gaza, Bande de.
HISTORY > Middle East > Israel.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Apathy
Atrocities
Human rights
Military ethics
Military government
Soldiers > Attitudes
Soldiers > Social conditions
Gaza Strip
Israel
West Bank
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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