Panopticon of Death: Institutional design of Bereavement

Lebel, Udi

doi:10.1177/0001699311422089

Cited by 11 publications

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“…Israel provides the greatest degree of financial support for ART in the world, to mention just one aspect of Israeli pronatalism. This emphasis is also reflected at the other extreme of life, where bereavement discourse (mainly in the military realm) plays a central role in Israeli culture, creating a model for grieving the loss of young men while also influencing civilian cases of early death (Lebel ). Weiss () examines the Jewish–Israeli “chosen body,” a cultural script that was created in the militaristic orientation of Israel, through different phases of its life course: pregnancy, birth, military service, and death.…”

Section: The Israeli Casementioning

confidence: 99%

(Un) Natural Grief: Novelty, Tradition and Naturalization in Israeli Discourse on Posthumous Reproduction

Katz

Hashiloni‐Dolev²

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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This article examines Israeli discourse on posthumous reproduction (PR) and the related cultural construction of "(un)natural" grief. Based mainly on an analysis of in-depth interviews with family members who submitted a request for PR, we examine the regimes of justification used by supporters and opponents of this technology. With both sides using the notion of "nature" to support their claim, the dispute centers on whether PR constructs a new social expression of grief (and hence should be seen as unnatural) or is only a reflection of an age-old grieving process (and is thus natural). We argue that by employing a twofold, novel/traditional justification, PR supporters aim to go one step further, from a symbolic continuity of the dead to a so-called real one. This progression highlights the flexibility of the natural category at the intersection of technology and culture and the abandonment of such binary distinctions as life/death and nature/culture. [posthumous reproduction, naturalization of technology, Israel, grief, continuing bonds]To have children for continuity is not egoism. It is not a sin. It is natural, it is a natural need, it is the nature of the world. And we are not trying to change the laws of nature.

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Section: The Israeli Casementioning

confidence: 99%

(Un) Natural Grief: Novelty, Tradition and Naturalization in Israeli Discourse on Posthumous Reproduction

Katz

Hashiloni‐Dolev²

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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“…Three changing phenomena related to the management of death and suicide bring scholarly attention to Israeli militarism, in both its republican and neoliberal guises (Levy, 2012): bereavement, casualty aversion, and psychologization. Since the 1990s Israeli society has witnessed bereaved parents, ‘spurred by anger and disillusionment,’ challenging ‘the mores and proficiencies of the armed forces and its leadership’ (Lebel, 2011, pp. 362–363).…”

Section: Israel’s Service Ethosmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mutuality and the study of suicide: Psychological notions on military suicides in Israeli courts

Rothem

Ben‐Ari²

2019

The Sociological Review

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This article addresses the complementary work of psychological notions and courts in handling suicides occurring in the course of military service. We suggest the category of mutuality between individuals and social settings as an analytic perspective for the study of suicide, illuminating not only how suicide is constructed, but also theorizing the effects of this construction. Our findings rest on content analysis of 34 verdicts on cases of suicide occurring within the Israeli military. In these verdicts, mostly issued to resolve disputes between bereaved parents and state authorities, Israeli courts decided on the causes of death and the responsibilities of the military and state for soldiers’ suicides. Courts base their decisions on the ambiguous psychological concept of suicidal individuals, explaining self-demise as the result of an internal malaise and avoid addressing the coercive circumstances within which Israeli soldiers operate. By conclusively linking self-demise to suicidality, courts produce an idea of death-seeking soldiers, who fail to ensure their own well-being as well as to defend the common good. Courts render the difficulties encountered during military service mental and personal, thereby contracting, standardizing, and individualizing the idea of mutuality between soldiers, families, and state. To explain these repercussions of juridification and psychologization processes, we draw attention to Durkheim’s conceptualization of contractual obligations and non-contractual sentiments. We elaborate on the Durkheimian connection between solidarity and suicide, by highlighting the outcomes of their interrelated management, especially the courts’ shaping of thin mutuality when arbitrating suicide disputes. Adopting psychological reasoning and assessing personal responsibility, courts potentially fail in their constitutive role of discussing matters of collective concerns.

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“…Songs reflecting the new narrative became popular hits, despite protests emanating from the establishment against broadcasting them on state radio channels (Katz ). Even the dominant bereavement discourse was deprived of its consensual status and framed in anti‐establishment political narratives (Lebel ).…”

Section: Popular Music and The National Narrativementioning

confidence: 99%

Penetrating the ‘black‐box’ of ‘remembrance day’ playlist: bereavement and the induction mechanisms of glocalization – a study in cultural sociology

Hermoni

Lebel

2012

Nations and Nationalism

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This article examines the musical repertoire broadcast on Israeli state radio stations on Remembrance Day. Commencing with the first Remembrance Day, Israeli radio stations have refrained from broadcasting songs that do not contribute to the glorification of the military mythology or failure to reinforce the consensual perception of national loss. In view of globalization – it might be assumed that Remembrance Day songs would undergo changes in tune with the times. From a musical point of view, new songs that belong to what Regev and Seroussi classify as ‘globalizing Israel’ penetrated into the nationalist arena. But, following Inglehart and Baker, these songs, despite their seemingly secular façade, remain limited hegemonic enclosures organized around the core of founding values. Apparently, this is an example of the process of glocalization of culture. The article seeks answers to the strategies employed to accommodate these new songs to the traditional ideology of the classical Remembrance Day songs and examines whether the mechanisms of legitimacy that enable the inclusion of new voices on Remembrance Day, can be identified. We argue that their choice is not arbitrary and that they illustrate the manner by which voluntary cultural entrepreneurs (musical editors) are co‐opted in the postnational condition.

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Panopticon of Death: Institutional design of Bereavement

Cited by 11 publications

References 22 publications

(Un) Natural Grief: Novelty, Tradition and Naturalization in Israeli Discourse on Posthumous Reproduction

(Un) Natural Grief: Novelty, Tradition and Naturalization in Israeli Discourse on Posthumous Reproduction

Mutuality and the study of suicide: Psychological notions on military suicides in Israeli courts

Penetrating the ‘black‐box’ of ‘remembrance day’ playlist: bereavement and the induction mechanisms of glocalization – a study in cultural sociology

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