Leisure and Cultural Change in Israeli Society

<p>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.<br><br>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.<br><br>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.</p>