Full Description
Examines the backpacking trip usually taken by Israeli youth following military service.
In the period after their military service, Jewish Israeli youth customarily embark on a unique touristic practice: the backpacking trip. Combining sociological, anthropological, and psychological research-based on innovative fieldwork conducted with Israeli backpackers in Israel and abroad-this book depicts the complex relationship between the traveling youth and their society of origin. Via a perspective the editors term "outside-in," we learn how social and cultural tensions and tenets, identities, fantasies, and preoccupations are acted out within a symbolic, touristic space by scores of Israeli youth.
Contents
Introduction: Backpacking as a Rite of Passage in Israel
Chaim Noy and Erik Cohen
1. Next Year in Kathmandu: Israeli Backpackers and the Formation of a New Israeli Identity
Ayana Shira Haviv
2. "Traveling Cultures": Israeli Backpackers, Deterritorialization, and Reconstruction of Home
Lisa Anteby-Yemini, Keren Bazini, Irit Gerstein, and Gali Kling
3. Israeli Backpackers: Narrative, Interpersonal Communication, and Social Construction
Chaim Noy
4. Young Adult Israeli Backpackers in India
Darya Maoz
5. Young Israelis' Long Trip Abroad, Backpacking in Asia and "Dwelling-Tourism" in Japan
Dalit Bloch-Tzemach
6. In Search of the Beautiful Land of Israel: Israeli Youth Voyages to Poland
Jackie Feldman
Conclusion: The Backpackers and Israeli Society
Erik Cohen and Chaim Noy
Contributors
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