Title
Captives of dentity: the betrayal of intercultural cooperation
Document Type
Journal Article
RIS ID
54731
Abstract
In conditions of intense ethnic conflict, intercultural cooperation of individuals and groups might find itself beholden to the logic of identity: ethnic heads are counted, distributed and managed as the building blocks of cooperation. We are already familiar with the dyads: JewishÿArab, HinduÿMuslim, CatholicÿProtestant and so on. Accordingly, we face the choice of claiming identity either as opponents or as partners in conflict ÿ other ways are ruled out. From a Deleuzian perspective, this means abandoning new lifestyles by resurrecting strata based on dominant identities. Such, I submit, is the case with Galilee ÿ the ArabÿJewish Bilingual School established in 1998 as a radical form of cooperation in Israel/Palestine. By applying Deleuzian tools ÿ in particular, the role Deleuze bestows upon infinitive verbs ÿ I examine unrealised potentials for continuing transformation.
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Publication Details
Svirsky, M. G. 2011, 'Captives of dentity: the betrayal of intercultural cooperation', Subjectivity, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 121-146.