TY - JOUR
T1 - Negotiating obligations, creating rights
T2 - Conscientious objection and the redefinition of citizenship in Israel
AU - Helman, Sara
N1 - Funding Information:
The research on this article was supported by the Shaine Center at the Department of Sociology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the United States Institute for Peace. I would like to express my gratitude to Andre Levy and Fran Markovitz from the Department of Behavioral Sciences, Ben Gurion University, to Zeev Rosenhek from the Hebrew University, and to an anonymous reader of Citizenship Studies for their comments on the various versions of the manuscript. My deep thanks to the interviewees, who devoted their time and energy and shared with me their thoughts and experiences. Without their cooperation, this article would have remained as an idea.
PY - 1999/1/1
Y1 - 1999/1/1
N2 - This article examines the ways in which modes of inclusion in the community of citizens are constitutive of political identities and frame the kind sof contestations and claims of individuals and groups vis-a-vis the state's agents. It analyses the emergence of selective conscientious to warfare and military service in Israel during the Lebanon war (1982-85). The article is based on the interpretative analysis of interviews with 66 individuals who refused to serve in the war in Lebanon. It shows, through the interpretative analysis of interviews, how conscientious objectors mobilised the hegemonic discourse on citizenship obligations and the identities constructed by it, in order to negotiate and promote and alternative discourse on citizenship. It claims that conscientious objection in Israel embodies an alternative discourse on citizenship and on the subject of rights and obligations. This redefinition entails a reformulation of modes of participation in the political community and of the political culture that frames it.
AB - This article examines the ways in which modes of inclusion in the community of citizens are constitutive of political identities and frame the kind sof contestations and claims of individuals and groups vis-a-vis the state's agents. It analyses the emergence of selective conscientious to warfare and military service in Israel during the Lebanon war (1982-85). The article is based on the interpretative analysis of interviews with 66 individuals who refused to serve in the war in Lebanon. It shows, through the interpretative analysis of interviews, how conscientious objectors mobilised the hegemonic discourse on citizenship obligations and the identities constructed by it, in order to negotiate and promote and alternative discourse on citizenship. It claims that conscientious objection in Israel embodies an alternative discourse on citizenship and on the subject of rights and obligations. This redefinition entails a reformulation of modes of participation in the political community and of the political culture that frames it.
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U2 - 10.1080/13621029908420700
DO - 10.1080/13621029908420700
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0032951206
SN - 1362-1025
VL - 3
SP - 45
EP - 70
JO - Citizenship Studies
JF - Citizenship Studies
IS - 1
ER -