Security and Suspicion An Ethnography of Everyday Life in Israel - Ochs, Juliana (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011)
Biographical note: Juliana Ochs is Andrew W. Mellon Curatorial Fellow at the Princeton University Art Museum
Main description: Based on intensive fieldwork in Israel during the second intifada, this ethnographic study explores how Israeli Jews experience security in their everyday lives. When Israeli security imprints itself on individual lives, the book argues, security propagates the very fears it claims to prevent