Danny Kaplan

The Nation and the Promise of Friendship (eBook, PDF)

Building Solidarity through Sociability

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer International Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 227
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9783319784021
• Artikelnr.: 52387602

Autorenporträt

Danny Kaplan is Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology and directs the Men Studies center at the Gender Program at Bar Ilan University, Israel. Kaplan specializes in the study of solidarity through the prism of friendship and mediated sociability. He is the author of The Men We Loved: Male Friendship and Nationalism in Israeli Culture (2006).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Friendship and Solidarity: The Road Not Taken in Studies of National Attachment.- 2. Social Club Sociability.- 3. Public and Collective Intimacies.- 4. From Strangers to Friends to Brothers: The Meta-Narrative of National Solidarity.- 5. The Big Brotherhood: Freemasons and Civic Sociability.- 6. Songs of the Brotherhood: Radio Music and the Engineering of the National Mood.- 7. The Big Brother: Reality TV Audience turned into Confidants.- 8. The Absent Brother: Military Friendships and National Commemoration.- 9. Conclusion.

Rezensionen

"The book will be attractive not only to sociologists and scholars of nationalism but also to those who are interested in the political implications of performances of public intimacy and in the formation of a civic space." (Hizky Shoham, Nations and Nationalism, Vol. 26 (1), 2020)