Moran Mandelbaum m.mandelbaum@keele.ac.uk
'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body
Mandelbaum, Moran
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Abstract
The section ‘gay rights in Israel’, part of the gaytlvguide.com website promoting gay life and culture in Israel, narrates Israel as ‘… one of the world’s most progressive countries in terms of equality for sexual minorities… by far the most tolerant Middle Eastern country towards homosexuals’. The ways in which Israel has been positioning its spatio-cultural exceptionality and the rise in LGBT discourses of national inclusion in Israel and beyond has already been identified by Jasbir Puar as ‘homonationalism’. This article, however, asks how. Namely, how do homonational discourses come to produce and hail queer populations as national loyal subjects? I suggest that, to better understand the hailing power of homonational discourses in Israel and beyond, theories of national-civilisational belonging, affect and interpellation must be reassessed and the insecurity at the heart of the national-civilisational edifice interrogated. To do so, the article draws on Lacanian psychoanalytical tools as I look into the Israel Defense Forces’ (IDF’s) approach towards LGBT recruits as well as the rise in LGBT campaigning on the political right.
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Mandelbaum, M. (2018). 'I'm a PROUD Israeli': Homonationalism, Belonging and the Insecurity of the Jewish-Israeli Body. Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society, 160-179. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0093-0
Acceptance Date | Apr 21, 2017 |
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Publication Date | May 7, 2018 |
Journal | Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society |
Print ISSN | 1088-0763 |
Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan |
Pages | 160-179 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0093-0 |
Keywords | Homonationalism, Israel, Palestine, Fantasy, Lacanian psychoanlaysis, belonging, interpellation, LGBT |
Publisher URL | https://doi.org/10.1057/s41282-018-0093-0 |
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