Description
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.
Table of Contents
Preface
Robert A Stebbins
Introduction: Leisure, Conflict and Change in Israeli Leisure Cultures
Tali Hayosh, Elie Cohen-Gewerc and Gilad Padva
Part I Freedom, Autonomy and Leisure
1. Leisure, Consumption and Freedom
Michelle Shir-Wise
2. Mass vs. autonomous consumption of serious leisure: its unexpected byproduct
Tali Hayosh
Part II Nationalized and Minoritized Leisure
3. Shabbat Is a Space without Work
Elie Cohen-Gewerc
4.Dark Tourism as Controversial Leisure Enterprise in Israeli TV Satire Shows
Liat Steir-Livny
Part III Consuming Leisure, Gender and Sex
5. Naked Leisure: Recreational and Domesticated Male Bodies in an Israeli Home Design Campaign
Gilad Padva and Sigal Barak-Brandes
6. Playboy as Repressive Leisure: Feminists confronting Israeli Patriarchy
Michal Zeevi and Esther Hertzog
7. Consumption Practices: Uniformed Yet Unique? Finding Individuality within Conformist Consumer Culture
Tali Hayosh and Rakefet Erlich Ron
Part IV Leisure Communities and Communal Hobbies
8. Long Distance Running as a Serious Leisure Activity and Its Influence on Relationships within the Family
Sima Zach and Assaf Lev
9. It's Always Up to the Parents": Parents' Initiatives in response to the Challenge of Leisure Time for Children with Disabilities
Hagit Kalibanski, Orit Gilor and Drora Kfir
10. The Sabra, the Genius and the Chess Player: A Socio-historical Understanding of Competing Narratives
Shahar Gindi and Avital Pilpel
