Security and Suspicion: An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel
ISBN: 9780812205688
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Pennsylvania Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter



Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada, this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives, the book argues, security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent.


Juliana Ochs is Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Princeton University Art Museum.
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