Cambridge University Press has
published “Kinship, Law and Politics - An Anatomy of Belonging”.
ABOUT THE BOOK
Why are we so concerned with
belonging? In what ways does our belonging constitute our identity? Is
belonging a universal concept or a culturally dependent value? How does
belonging situate and motivate us? Joseph E. David grapples with these
questions through a genealogical analysis of ideas and concepts of belonging.
His book transports readers to crucial historical moments in which perceptions
of belonging have been formed, transformed, or dismantled. The cases presented
here focus on the pivotal role played by belonging in kinship, law, and
political order, stretching across cultural and religious contexts from
eleventh-century Mediterranean religious legal debates to twentieth-century
statist liberalism in Western societies. With his thorough inquiry into diverse
discourses of belonging, David pushes past the politics of belonging and forces
us to acknowledge just how wide-ranging and fluid notions of belonging can be.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Joseph E. David, Sapir Academic
College, Israel
Joseph E. David is Professor of
Law at Sapir Academic College, Israel and a Visiting Professor at the Program
in Judaic Studies and Law School at the University of Yale. His research
focuses on Jewish Studies, Law and Religion, Legal History and Comparative
Jurisprudence, on which he has published extensively.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Part I. Kinship:
1. Corporal union as performance
of belonging
2. The making of kin belonging
Part II. Law:
3. Territorial belonging and the
law
4. Religious identity and law
Part III. Politics:
5. The familial-political analogy
6. Liberal iconoclasm
7. Beyond the analogy: liberal
alternatives
Bibliography.
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