Course of the NOVA FCSH Summer School aiming to provide a basic understanding of modern Israeli politics, culture, and identity.

The Modern State of Israel — a socio-political analysis

Teachers: Pedro Aires Oliveira e Galia Sabar

Schedule: 29 de Agosto a 9 de Setembro | dias úteis — das 16h00 às 18h30

Duration: 25h

Modality: on site

Aims:

The object of this course is to provide a basic understanding of modern Israeli politics, culture, and identity through lectures, discussions, and projects. Starting with the Zionist ideology and nation building enterprise through the challenges of absorption and modernization of the state and society, we will also survey the rise of Palestinian national movement; Israeli occupation and settlement projects; the role of ethnicity in Israeli politics; immigration and Ashkenazi-Mizrahi relations; the Arab minorities in the Jewish state; the impact of the Holocaust; global political developments as a factor in the changing Israeli economy and politics; the social and cultural divisions in Israel; and, finally, challenges facing Israel today.

Summarised programme:

1. From a vision to reality;
2. The victory of the one is the defeat of the other;
3. Between war and peace;
4. The socio -Political Mosaic of Israel;
5. From farming to “start-up-nation”.

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