Borders and Belonging: A Memoir

In this gripping and honest memoir, Mira Sucharov shows what a search for political and emotional home looks like. Sucharov suffered from childhood phobias triggered by her parents' divorce, and she sought emotional refuge in Jewish summer camp. But three years spent living in Israel in her twenties shook her to her core. Ultimately, encounters with colleagues, students, friends and lovers force her to confront what it means to be able to write, advocate and teach about Israel/Palestine in a way that balances affirmation with authenticity.

Underlines the importance of the personal in the creation of a public intellectual writing about one of the most sensitive political topics out there Showcases a new methodological approach in International Relations: narrative IR, while closely navigating the relationship between the personal and political Builds on the author's successful voice as a as a scholar and public commentator to find politically engaging ways of discussing the Israel-Palestine conflict

Autorentext

Mira Sucharov is Professor of Political Science and University Chair of Teaching Innovation at Carleton University, Canada.

Zusammenfassung

"Borders and Belonging is certainly worth reading and certainly gives voice to the experiences of many American Jews in general and American Jews who chose to become Israel Studies experts in particular." (Adi Sherzer, Israel Studies Review, Vol. 37 (1), 2022)

"Reading Mira Sucharov's deeply self- reflective Borders and Belonging makes me reach into the annals of my own memory, in part because so much of my story resembles hers. ... Many readers will want Sucharov to take a stand. They will want her to provide irrefutable evidence, as a scholar ought to do." (Karen E. H. Skinazi, Literary Review of Canada, Vol. 29 (4), May, 2021)

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Posters and Flags - 2011.- Chapter 2. Carpets - 1976.- Chapter 3. Falluja - 1992.- Chapter 4. Re/Intermarriage - 1980.- Chapter 5. Moles - 1993.- Chapter 6. Cabins - 1981.- Chapter 7. Peace, Love, and Conflict - 1993.- Chapter 8. Orange Kinley - 1983.- Chapter 9. Buses and Cars - 1994.- Chapter 10. Razors - 1986.- Chapter 11. Panic - 2013.- Chapter 12. Tents - 1987.- Chapter 13. My Wadi - 2016.- Chapter 14. Cancel Culture - 2020.- Chapter 15. Dreams - 2020.