Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society
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, interethnic, 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.
Tali Hayosh is an accreditation advisor for undergraduate and graduate programs, Head of Tzevet Best for Education Program, in Beit Berl College, Israel. She is a senior lecturer and her research interests are leisure culture, consumption, and leisure education. In 2018 she authored two books about leisure (in Hebrew): Serious Leisure: Culture and Consumption in Modern Society (2018) and After the Bell: The world of Leisure for Children and Teenagers (the latter with Fadia Nasser-Abu Elhija, 2018), and also was a guest editor (with Meir Teichman) of Special Issue Mifgash on leisure culture of children and youth in Israel (in Hebrew, 2018).
Elie Cohen-Gewerc is a senior lecturer and researcher in Beit Berl College, Israel. He was on the board of directors of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. The main issues he investigates are freedom and the human challenge of being free. He has written various articles and four books, including Serious Leisure and Individuality (2013), with Robert Stebbins.
Gilad Padva is a film and media and queer studies scholar. He currently works for the Program for Women and Gender Studies with NCJW at Tel Aviv University, Israel. He is the author of Queer Nostalgia in Cinema and Pop Culture (2014), and co-editor of Sensational Pleasures in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2014) and Intimate Relationships in Cinema, Literature and Visual Culture (2017). He has published numerous articles, chapters, and entries in distinguished academic journals, edited volumes, and international encyclopedias.
Routledge Studies in Middle Eastern Society
This series seeks to examine the various developments and changes in contemporary Middle East society. From a variety of disciplinary approaches it includes books on issues such as globalization, the impact of economic, religious and political change on peoples lives, the family and gender relations in the region.
The War in Darfur
Reclaiming Sudanese History
Anders Hastrup
Israeli Identity
Between Orient and Occident
Edited by David Tal
A Political Economy of Arab Education
Policies and Comparative Perspectives
Mohamed Alaa Abdel-Moneim
Syrian Refugee Children in the Middle East and Europe
Integrating the Young and Exiled
Edited by Michelle Pace and Somdeep Sen
Post-Conflict Transition in Lebanon
The Disappeared of the Civil War
Lyna Comaty
Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society
Edited by Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc, Gilad Padva
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Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society
Edited by Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc, and Gilad Padva
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Sigal Barak-Brandes is a lecturer at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests include: gender representations, media images and ideologies of motherhood, women and girls audiences, girls images, girls and Facebook, media and crime victims. She has published a co-edited collection: Feminist Interrogations of Womens Head Hair: Crown of Glory and Shame (2018), and papers in international journals such as Communication, Culture & Critique, Feminist Media Studies, The Communication Review, and European Journal of Cultural Studies.
Elie Cohen-Gewerc is a senior Lecturer and researcher in Beit Berl College (Israel). The main issue he investigates is freedom and the human challenge of being free. He has written tens of articles and four books, including Serious Leisure and Individuality (with Robert Stebbins 2013). He was on the board of directors of the Israel Broadcasting Authority. These activities in the media field led him into leisure issues. His interest in leisure studies dates from the 1990s as an expansion of his concrete experience and his interest in philosophy of aesthetics focused on freedom and creation.
Rakefet Erlich Ron holds a PhD in Sociology. She is a lecturer at Beit Berl College and serves as head of the Excellence Program and a pedagogic instructor training teachers in the secondary school track. She teaches courses in sociology and sociology of education. Her research investigates different sociological issues in Israel including gender, interaction between cultures, and their connection to society through consumerism. Her fields of research are consumption, Ultra-Orthodox women, and teacher education.
