L‟habitus “nazionale” israeliano: una banalizzazione a doppio taglio?

The israeli “national” habitus: a double-edged banalization?

Alon Helled

Abstract


L’identità nazionale è tra i temi più trasversali della ricerca sociale e politica, eppure rimane ambiguo. La resistenza dello stato-nazione, in quanto principale unità sociopolitica collettivizzante, solleva interrogativi sulle tendenze che vengono interiorizzate dal primo e che assicurano la sua resistenza nel tempo e nello spazio. Questo articolo discute l'identità nazionale mettendola in relazione con lo stato-nazione e tali tendenze: «habitus» e «unità di sopravvivenza», in quanto quest’ultima costruisce una collettività nazionale permanente. Lo studio chiarisce questa “relazione dialettica a doppio senso” affrontando il caso israeliano e la “banalizzazione nazionale” che presenta.

 

National identity is amongst the most transversal objects of social and political research. Yet it remains ambiguous. The resistance of the nation-state as the main collectivizing sociopolitical unit raises questions regarding the dispositions that are interiorized by the former and which ensures its endurance in time and space. This paper discusses national identity by putting it in relation with the nation-state and the dispositions: «habitus» and «survival unit», as the latter construct a lasting national collectivity. The paper clarifies this dialectical “two-way relationship” by addressing the Israeli case and the “national banalization” it presents.

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identità nazionale; habitus; unità di sopravvivenza; banalizzazione; Israele; national identity; habitus; survival unit; banalization; Israel

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