Self-elimination |
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| Authors: | Joyce Dalsheim |
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| Institution: | Author of Israel has a Jewish problem: Self-determination as self-elimination (Oxford UP forthcoming) and Unsettling Gaza: Secular liberalism, radical religion and the Israeli settlement project (Oxford UP 2011) and Producing spoilers: Peacemaking and the production of enmity in a secular age (Oxford UP 2014). She is a cultural anthropologist in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. |
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| Abstract: | As sea levels rise, more and more refugees arrive at our gates, only to find them closed. And many more of us may become refugees ourselves. Open borders might help ease the suffering, but if elections in places like Israel, India or Hungary are any indication, the trend is now towards producing and maintaining more homogeneous national cultures rather than opening borders to those seeking refuge. Ethnonationalism involves both exclusionary and inclusionary processes. This editorial looks at the recent elections in Israel to consider what such inclusion might entail and why the struggles over identity can be contentious enough to make a governing coalition fail. |
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