| Wildfire: Grassroots Revolts in Israel in the Post-Socialist Era Contributor(s): Lehman-Wilzig, Sam (Author) |
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ISBN: 0791408728 ISBN-13: 9780791408728 Publisher: State University of New York Press OUR PRICE: $32.25 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: February 1992 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Civil Rights - History | Middle East - Israel & Palestine |
| Dewey: 323.042 |
| LCCN: 90026930 |
| Series: Suny Israeli Studies |
| Physical Information: (0.62 lbs) 198 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Middle East |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Wildfire is a wide-ranging, inter-disciplinary study of the other side of Israeli public life. Because the governmental service systems work poorly, and political protest has proved to be largely ineffective, the Israeli public has begun to take matters into their own hands, in effect creating numerous alternative service systems in almost all spheres of life. Lehman-Wilzig describes this phenomenon and analyzes the impact of the most important alternative systems: illegal settlement activity, a huge underground economy, pirate cable TV stations, gray education, Black medicine, anti-religious as well as anti-secular activity, and a growing demand for electoral reform and constitutionalization of the Israeli polity. |