Masks and Soldiering: The Israeli Army and the Palestinian Uprising

Ben‐Ari, Eyal

doi:10.1525/can.1989.4.4.02a00030

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“…Moreover, his continued service in reserve forces enabled him to maintain these personal ties and create new ones. In some cases, active military service in reserves actually transforms into a field study (see Ben-Ari 1999). Consequently, a researcher's personal engagement with the military is a precious asset in gaining scholarly access.…”

Section: Entering the Fieldmentioning

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Studying-Up and Studying-Across: At-Home Research of Governmental Violence Organizations

Gazit

Maoz-Shai²

2010

Qual Sociol

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Studying the military and other security organizations is challenging for both methodological and ethical reasons. Studying these domains "at home," literally in the researcher's own country, complicates things even further. This article discusses these intricacies by proposing a dynamic conceptualization of the subject-object relationship in the study of the military and security in Israel. This conceptualization illuminates the effects of the dynamic positioning of the researcher in four social fields: the academic, the militarysecurity, gender, and the ethno-national. The actual influence of these fields and their interrelations changes throughout the phases of research. We argue that when researchers and their respondents have similar ethno-national affiliation and military experiences, the dichotomous relations between them break down and give way to a dense web of expectations. This brings the researcher to maneuver between two, ostensibly contradictory, research strategies: studying-up and studying-across. The paper unpacks the complexities encapsulated in these strategies by discussing methodological and ethical dilemmas in two field studies on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict conducted by the authors.

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Section: Entering the Fieldmentioning

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Studying-Up and Studying-Across: At-Home Research of Governmental Violence Organizations

Gazit

Maoz-Shai²

2010

Qual Sociol

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“…28 Similarly, while Ben-Ari investigated a unit of reserve soldiers, he analyzed the ideals of soldiering common to all parts of the IDF. 29 The second assumption that many scholars have adopted originates in the selfimage of almost all regular military personnel that they are the "true professionals." This assumption implies the idea that military skills demand a degree of expertise acquired only through lengthy, institutionalized training and thus that reserves-like other supplementary forces such as paramilitary units, border patrol police, civil guards, or local defense units-cannot be considered truly "professional."…”

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Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants

Lomsky‐Feder

Gazit

Ben‐Ari

2007

Armed Forces & Society

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This article suggests a new perspective for examining the particular social and organizational characteristics of military reserves forces and the special experiences of serving in the reserves. To illustrate the unique social position of reservists, the authors develop a theoretical model that likens them to transmigrants. Accordingly, the authors suggest that society may benefit from looking at reserves both as sorts of social and organizational hybrids or amalgams-they are soldiers and civilians, they are outside yet inside the military system, and are invested in both spheres-and as continual migrants journeying between military and civilian spheres. The authors end by suggesting that it may be fruitful to study three segments of the military, each of which has its own dynamics: regulars, conscripts, and reserves. This differentiation allows society to examine different patterns of motivation, cohesion, political commitment and awareness, and long-term considerations that characterize each segment.

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“…112 Thus for example, critiquing Ben-Ari's earlier work, 113 Robert Paine has shown how despite carrying out policing roles during the Intifada, soldiers justified their action in military terms touching on the very survival of the state. 114 In other words, in comprehending the Intifada as a "normal" or "natural" military situation, their activities were linked to the notion that military actions by Israeli soldiers are related to the ultimate Zionist text: to the safety and security of the country.…”

Section: H a N G E A N D C O N T I N U I T Y I N T H E S T U Dy O Fmentioning

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The Study of War and the Military in Israel: An Empirical Investigation and a Reflective Critique

Rosenhek¹,

Maman²,

Ben‐Ari³

2003

Inter. J. Middle East Stud.

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Masks and Soldiering: The Israeli Army and the Palestinian Uprising

Cited by 58 publications

References 9 publications

Studying-Up and Studying-Across: At-Home Research of Governmental Violence Organizations

Studying-Up and Studying-Across: At-Home Research of Governmental Violence Organizations

Reserve Soldiers as Transmigrants

The Study of War and the Military in Israel: An Empirical Investigation and a Reflective Critique

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