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Sorting procedures in enclosed rural communities: Admitting ‘people like us’ into renewing kibbutzim in northern Israel
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.
Highlights ► Sorting procedures play an important role in shaping the kibbutz as a rural gated community. ► Preferred newcomers are those similar to people already reside in the kibbutz. ► It is important to define the meaning of ‘gated’ in the study of gated communities. ► Rural gated communities can be reformulated so they become differentiated instead of uniform communities.
Sorting procedures in enclosed rural communities: Admitting ‘people like us’ into renewing kibbutzim in northern Israel
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.
Highlights ► Sorting procedures play an important role in shaping the kibbutz as a rural gated community. ► Preferred newcomers are those similar to people already reside in the kibbutz. ► It is important to define the meaning of ‘gated’ in the study of gated communities. ► Rural gated communities can be reformulated so they become differentiated instead of uniform communities.
Sorting procedures in enclosed rural communities: Admitting ‘people like us’ into renewing kibbutzim in northern Israel
Charney, Igal (author) / Palgi, Michal (author)
Journal of Rural Studies ; 31 ; 47-54
2013-01-01
8 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
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