Sorting Procedures in Enclosed Rural Communities: Admitting "People like Us" into Renewing Kibbutzim in Northern Israel

Autor/inn/en	Charney, Igal; Palgi, Michal
Titel	Sorting Procedures in Enclosed Rural Communities: Admitting "People like Us" into Renewing Kibbutzim in Northern Israel
Quelle	In: Journal of Rural Studies, 31 (2013), S.47-54 (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0743-0167
DOI	10.1016/j.jrurstud.2013.02.007
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Neoliberalism; Jews; Rural Areas; Rural Population; Rural Sociology; Social Environment; Interviews; Sociocultural Patterns; Social Stratification; Selection Criteria; Cooperatives; Collective Settlements; Community Attitudes; Community Characteristics; Israel + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Neo-liberalism; Neoliberalismus; Jew; Jude; Jüdin; Juden; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Landbevölkerung; Agrarsoziologie; Soziales Umfeld; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Soziale Zusammensetzung; Selection criterion; Auslesekriterium; Genossenschaftswesen; Schlichtungsverfahren
Abstract	This paper examines the attempts made by the renewing kibbutzim to maintain their way of life as much as possible through the adjustment of their gating mechanisms. In this type of a rural gated community, sorting procedures and admittance criteria of nonmembers are the most notable elements. Background material and interviews with informants at eight kibbutzim on Israel's northern periphery enabled us to outline the overt and covert aspects of these procedures from the gatekeepers' viewpoint. In the context of a segregated society, sorting procedures are maintained, reinforced, and challenged by locally-led and state-sponsored regulations. Our findings show how sorting powers allow kibbutzim to exercise tight control on their own behalf. To minimize foreseeable frictions and to maintain some recognized ethnic and socio-cultural fundamentals (middle-class, Jewish, secular), recruiting "people like us" and excluding others has become the accepted practice. Social enclosure is implemented and maintained not simply by mechanisms of self-selection but by careful monitoring this distinct territorial entity by the gatekeepers. In fact, their practices assist in turning a unique type of a gated community into a typical neoliberal gated community. (Contains 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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