Dani Filc
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 290279 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dani Filc |
| NOMBRES | Dani |
| APELLIDO | Filc |
| FIRMA | FILC D |
| AFILIACIONES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9100-1006 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 174 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2004 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Reproducing the normal and the pathological in personalized cancer medicine clinical trials
The medical practice termed Personalized Medicine ideally uses all the patient’s possible characteristics in predicting disease predisposition and response to therapy, but primarily employs the individual’s unique molecular make-up in the tailoring of treatment. This change in medical practice also entails an epistemic shift towards ‘molecularization’: individuals and disease are now understood and governed through life’s basic building blocks. I…
Between Syndemics and Structural Exploitation
This study examines how Israel's legal and institutional arrangements, including migration policies, health-insurance eligibility rules, and safety enforcement mechanisms, shape health risks for Thai migrant agricultural workers, and identifies policy levers to mitigate preventable harm. Using a legal policy analysis informed by syndemics and labor frameworks, we mapped laws, regulatory oversight, and enforcement chains, and synthesized evidence …
Commodification of Healthcare—Patient Perspective
This study discusses subjective aspects of the commodification of healthcare from an ethno-class perspective using narrative analysis of patient stories. We hypothesize that the objective social hierarchy of resources, together with a certain degree of individual agency, structure the patients' strategies of coping with the public-private "maze" of the healthcare system. The findings show different coping strategies indicating three different eth…
Is solidarity a social determinant of health? Conceptual challenges in thinking about solidarity in health and healthcare
Solidarity is relevant to a wide range of fields of practice and policy. In this Introduction to a Special Issue on solidarity in health and healthcare, we discuss recent developments in the conceptualization of solidarity in healthcare, examine the relationship between solidarity and justice and the tensions between inclusion and exclusion. We argue for the treatment of solidarity as a foundational concept for healthcare, for two reasons: First,…
The political economy of populists in power, between policy and polity
This paper explores the connection between the current wave of populism, economic policies and governance practices. We first review the different ways in which populist political economy has been conceptualised, focusing on the relationship between populism and neoliberalism in terms of both policy and polity. We then briefly discuss right-wing populist governments' recent economic policies and institutional changes. We argue that, while represe…
Growth models and the question of popular legitimacy
One of the novelties brought into contemporary political economic analysis by the burgeoning growth model literature is that legitimacy is inherent to the politics of growth. However, the way popular legitimacy is understood in this literature remains limited to discursive acts, namely public discourse by state officials and political parties. We argue, instead, that growth model legitimation towards groups outside the dominant social bloc also i…
From social bloc to historical bloc
The way that the economy, politics and ideology interact to maintain stability or bring about change is a central concern for political economy. The social bloc perspective, as elaborated by Amable and Palombarini, provides a promising framework with which to address this question due to its attempt to combine an emphasis on the economic structure with a more central role for politics and ideology. This article argues, however, that the social bl…
Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
"This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary Israel, accounting for changes, developments and contemporary debates. The different chapters offer both a historical background and an updated analysis of politics, economy, society and culture. Across five sections, a multi-disciplinary group of experts, including sociologists, political scientists, historians and social scientists, engage in a wide variety of topics through diffe…
Constructing a Classed Community in Kiryat Eilon (H-300) in Holon
This paper examines H-300 or Kiryat Eilon: a neighborhood in the city of Holon that exemplifies Mizrahi mobility into the new middle class. Following Cohen and Leon’s seminal insights on the Mizrahi middle class, the paper analyses life stories and other daily practices of H-300 residents in order to assess their (ethno-)class identities. The picture seems to be far more complex than the one described by Leon and Cohen. Mobile Mizrahi personal ex…
Routledge Handbook on Contemporary Israel
Remember to be Jewish
The paper explores the relation between religion and populism in Israel. Jewish identity has been an important marker of citizenship and belonging in Israel since its inception. The founders of the Zionist movement and the dominant elites of early statehood remained dependent upon Jewish religion to demarcate national boundaries and legitimate territorial claims. With the establishment of the state, Jewish identity helped create and legitimate a …
From bioethics to biopolitics
While bioethicist Arthur Caplan claims that “The Nazi analogy is equivalent to dropping a nuclear bomb in ethical battles about science and medicine”, we claim that such total exclusion of this analogy is equally problematic. Our analysis builds on Roberto Esposito’s conceptualization of immunitas and communitas as key elements of biopolitics. Within public health theories and practices there is an inherent tension between exclusion (immunitas) a…
Populism, religion and family values policies in Israel, Italy and Turkey
There is a growing focus in political science on right-wing populist parties. But few comparative studies address their discourses and politics relating to family values, especially when involved with policy-making. Moreover, many comparative works about populism focus on a single region – often Western and Eastern Europe. This paper adopts a definition of populism with two different dimensions: the vertical (inclusive), which regards elites, and…
Israel’s Right-wing Populists
Israeli and European right-wing populists have become ideological allies, harnessing ethnic nationalism in an overarching struggle against global Islam
Is resistance always counter-hegemonic
Current reflections on practices of opposition are informed by the resistance/hegemony paradigm. The shortcomings of the resistance/hegemony paradigm are, as many critics have pointed, both a result of the wide extension and romanticization of resistance, and the mis-construal of hegemony as a top/down process of manipulating consciousness. The present article proposes to address some of the limitations of the resistance/hegemony paradigm by pond…
Not Merely Ideological
In recent years the study of populism has followed a "pure" political track, typically employing an ideological perspective. We argue that such a perspective downplays material aspects of populism and limits the ability to analyze populism in government. In order to reinvigorate interest in and concern with the political economy of contemporary populism we rely on the emerging growth model approach in comparative political economy to study the po…
The physician as a neoliberal subject - A qualitative study within a private-public mix setting
Military Conflict and Neo-Liberalization in Israel (2001–2006)
Existing analytical frameworks for the study of Israel’s political sociology and political economy tend to view the Israeli society as polarized into a neo-liberal secular and peace-seeking elite and religious ethno-republican social groups. The turn to ethno-republicanism following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, and two neo-liberal economic programs in 2002 and 2003, exposed the limitations of those approaches. We suggest that a Ne…
The 14th of July of Daphni Leef
Most of social sciences' research on Israel emphasizes ethnicity, status, nationality, identity, gender or coloniality as the central explanatory concepts. This article argues that in order to understand the emergence (as well as the limitations) of phenomena such as the 2011 social protest, the analysis must incorporate a class perspective. In answering questions such as which social groups initiated and supported the protest, what the socio-eco…
Latin American inclusive and European exclusionary populism
The article addresses the fact that Latin-American populism is mostly inclusive and European populism mostly exclusionary, and argues that colonialism is an important key to understanding the development of either form of populism. Following a characterization of populism and of the links between colonialism and the conceptualization of the people, the article analyses Peronism and Le Pen's Front National as case studies to support its claim. Amo…
The Israeli Medical Association's discourse on health inequity
Is socioeconomic status associated with utilization of health care services in a single-payer universal health care system
The research shows that even in a universal health care system SES is associated with utilization of health care services. In order to improve equity in utilization of services the Israeli public health should reduce economic barriers and in parallel invest in making information accessible to improve "navigation skills" for all
Beyond 'New Humanitarianism
Filc D, Davidovitch N, Gottlieb ND. Beyond 'New Humanitarianism': Physicians for Human Rights-Israel's Mobile Clinic and Open Clinic on the Interface of Social Justice, Human Rights and Medical Relief. Journal of Human Rights Practice . 2014;7(1):88-108
The role of civil society in health care reforms
Marxism after postmodernism
The concept of a historical-social and political emancipatory subject, central in Marxism, has been rebuked by postmodern theories. In this article the authors examine the encounter between Marxist and postmodernist theories and ponder whether and how to conceive of an emancipatory political subject. The article identifies the questions posed by worldwide protests in the context of the global economic crisis and outlines a typology of the differe…
Latin American inclusive and European exclusionary populism
The article addresses the fact that Latin-American populism is mostly inclusive and European populism mostly exclusionary, and argues that colonialism is an important key to understanding the development of either form of populism. Following a characterization of populism and of the links between colonialism and the conceptualization of the people, the article analyses Peronism and Le Pen's Front National as case studies to support its claim. Amo…
Medical humanitarianism, human rights and political advocacy
Post-populism
This paper analyses the success of political leaders who combine a populist style with a neo-liberal agenda to win the support of social sectors that are among the most damaged by neo-liberal policies. The article claims that in countries where a populist movement succeeded in the past to include previously excluded social groups, a populist habitus develops that explains the support given by those same groups to leaders who emerge from those pop…
The medical text
Populism, religion and family values policies in Israel, Italy and Turkey
There is a growing focus in political science on right-wing populist parties. But few comparative studies address their discourses and politics relating to family values, especially when involved with policy-making. Moreover, many comparative works about populism focus on a single region – often Western and Eastern Europe. This paper adopts a definition of populism with two different dimensions: the vertical (inclusive), which regards elites, and…
The health business under neo-liberalism
The commodification and the medicalization of everyday life are central trends in contemporary - neo-liberal - societies. This paper studies the interaction between both trends as an explanation for the rapid growth of Israeli health care firms. During the past two decades Israel underwent a process of transformation into a neo-liberal/post-Fordist economy, and witnessed a significant growth of its economy. Firms within the field of health care d…
Physicians as 'Organic Intellectuals
Since the early 1980s, healthcare systems in welfare states have undergone a process of transformation, with the convergence towards different forms of managed care as one of its central characteristics. The process has also brought about changes within the medical profession. Most physicians, and some sociologists, understand the transformation as a process of deprofessionalization. This article presents an alternative explanation, understanding…
Not Merely Ideological
In recent years the study of populism has followed a "pure" political track, typically employing an ideological perspective. We argue that such a perspective downplays material aspects of populism and limits the ability to analyze populism in government. In order to reinvigorate interest in and concern with the political economy of contemporary populism we rely on the emerging growth model approach in comparative political economy to study the po…
The Post-Oslo Israeli Populist Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
This paper analyses transformations within the Israeli radical right in the era of the “Oslo war”: Palestinian terror attacks which began as a response to the Oslo agreements. Those terror activities have reshaped the Israeli political right wing, which transferred itself to what we call the “new” Israeli right. Politically and socially the “new right” became similar to right-wing movements that emerged in Europe in the nineties. The paper examin…
Remember to be Jewish
The paper explores the relation between religion and populism in Israel. Jewish identity has been an important marker of citizenship and belonging in Israel since its inception. The founders of the Zionist movement and the dominant elites of early statehood remained dependent upon Jewish religion to demarcate national boundaries and legitimate territorial claims. With the establishment of the state, Jewish identity helped create and legitimate a …
Health Care as a National Right? The Development of Health Care Services for Migrant Workers in Israel
Immigrating to a universal health care system
Is resistance always counter-hegemonic
Current reflections on practices of opposition are informed by the resistance/hegemony paradigm. The shortcomings of the resistance/hegemony paradigm are, as many critics have pointed, both a result of the wide extension and romanticization of resistance, and the mis-construal of hegemony as a top/down process of manipulating consciousness. The present article proposes to address some of the limitations of the resistance/hegemony paradigm by pond…
The role of civil society in health care reforms
Military Conflict and Neo-Liberalization in Israel (2001–2006)
Existing analytical frameworks for the study of Israel’s political sociology and political economy tend to view the Israeli society as polarized into a neo-liberal secular and peace-seeking elite and religious ethno-republican social groups. The turn to ethno-republicanism following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, and two neo-liberal economic programs in 2002 and 2003, exposed the limitations of those approaches. We suggest that a Ne…
The Israeli Medical Association's discourse on health inequity
Power in the Primary Care Medical Encounter
Israel’s Right-wing Populists
Israeli and European right-wing populists have become ideological allies, harnessing ethnic nationalism in an overarching struggle against global Islam
The physician as a neoliberal subject - A qualitative study within a private-public mix setting
The 14th of July of Daphni Leef
Most of social sciences' research on Israel emphasizes ethnicity, status, nationality, identity, gender or coloniality as the central explanatory concepts. This article argues that in order to understand the emergence (as well as the limitations) of phenomena such as the 2011 social protest, the analysis must incorporate a class perspective. In answering questions such as which social groups initiated and supported the protest, what the socio-eco…
Post-Fordism's Contradictory Trends
The transition from the Fordist hegemonic model to post-Fordism is a complex process. It is not the unavoidable result of technological changes, but the contingent consequence of a hegemonic, political, struggle taking place at the different spheres of the social. This article studies the transformations that took place in the Israeli health care system during the last two decades in order to exemplify the political and contradictory character of…
Growth models and the question of popular legitimacy
One of the novelties brought into contemporary political economic analysis by the burgeoning growth model literature is that legitimacy is inherent to the politics of growth. However, the way popular legitimacy is understood in this literature remains limited to discursive acts, namely public discourse by state officials and political parties. We argue, instead, that growth model legitimation towards groups outside the dominant social bloc also i…
From social bloc to historical bloc
The way that the economy, politics and ideology interact to maintain stability or bring about change is a central concern for political economy. The social bloc perspective, as elaborated by Amable and Palombarini, provides a promising framework with which to address this question due to its attempt to combine an emphasis on the economic structure with a more central role for politics and ideology. This article argues, however, that the social bl…
Hamas and the Destruction of Risk Society
In this paper we employ risk theory to examine key social processes that have been unfolding in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the second Intifada. Using the Palestinian health services as a case study, we argue that the system of securities in the Occupied Territories has collapsed and that endemic uncertainty currently informs Palestinian society. This, in turn, has led to a radical transformation of the very rationality of …
The medical text
Post-Fordism's Contradictory Trends
The transition from the Fordist hegemonic model to post-Fordism is a complex process. It is not the unavoidable result of technological changes, but the contingent consequence of a hegemonic, political, struggle taking place at the different spheres of the social. This article studies the transformations that took place in the Israeli health care system during the last two decades in order to exemplify the political and contradictory character of…
Health Care as a National Right? The Development of Health Care Services for Migrant Workers in Israel
The Post-Oslo Israeli Populist Radical Right in Comparative Perspective
This paper analyses transformations within the Israeli radical right in the era of the “Oslo war”: Palestinian terror attacks which began as a response to the Oslo agreements. Those terror activities have reshaped the Israeli political right wing, which transferred itself to what we call the “new” Israeli right. Politically and socially the “new right” became similar to right-wing movements that emerged in Europe in the nineties. The paper examin…
The health business under neo-liberalism
The commodification and the medicalization of everyday life are central trends in contemporary - neo-liberal - societies. This paper studies the interaction between both trends as an explanation for the rapid growth of Israeli health care firms. During the past two decades Israel underwent a process of transformation into a neo-liberal/post-Fordist economy, and witnessed a significant growth of its economy. Firms within the field of health care d…
Hamas and the Destruction of Risk Society
In this paper we employ risk theory to examine key social processes that have been unfolding in the West Bank and Gaza Strip since the outbreak of the second Intifada. Using the Palestinian health services as a case study, we argue that the system of securities in the Occupied Territories has collapsed and that endemic uncertainty currently informs Palestinian society. This, in turn, has led to a radical transformation of the very rationality of …
Power in the Primary Care Medical Encounter
Physicians as 'Organic Intellectuals
Since the early 1980s, healthcare systems in welfare states have undergone a process of transformation, with the convergence towards different forms of managed care as one of its central characteristics. The process has also brought about changes within the medical profession. Most physicians, and some sociologists, understand the transformation as a process of deprofessionalization. This article presents an alternative explanation, understanding…
The Liberal Grounding of the Right to Health Care
The language of rights is increasingly used to regulate access to health care and allocation of resources in the health care field. The right to health has been grounded on different theories of justice. Scholars within the liberal tradition have grounded the right to health care on Rawls's two principles of justice. Thus, the right to health care has been justified as being one of the basic liberties, as enabling equality of opportunity, or as b…
The Political Right in Israel
This book takes a fresh look at the trajectories of Israeli politics since the election of Likud in 1977, examining how right wing parties have adopted populist policies in order to carve out an identity and win support at the polls. As such it demonstrates how populism has become a hugely significant factor in shaping Israeli politics and society. The original perspective taken by the author allows for an understanding of the central phenomena o…
Political Right in Israel
Post-populism
This paper analyses the success of political leaders who combine a populist style with a neo-liberal agenda to win the support of social sectors that are among the most damaged by neo-liberal policies. The article claims that in countries where a populist movement succeeded in the past to include previously excluded social groups, a populist habitus develops that explains the support given by those same groups to leaders who emerge from those pop…
Immigrating to a universal health care system
Medical humanitarianism, human rights and political advocacy
Is socioeconomic status associated with utilization of health care services in a single-payer universal health care system
The research shows that even in a universal health care system SES is associated with utilization of health care services. In order to improve equity in utilization of services the Israeli public health should reduce economic barriers and in parallel invest in making information accessible to improve "navigation skills" for all
Beyond 'New Humanitarianism
Filc D, Davidovitch N, Gottlieb ND. Beyond 'New Humanitarianism': Physicians for Human Rights-Israel's Mobile Clinic and Open Clinic on the Interface of Social Justice, Human Rights and Medical Relief. Journal of Human Rights Practice . 2014;7(1):88-108
The role of civil society in health care reforms
Marxism after postmodernism
The concept of a historical-social and political emancipatory subject, central in Marxism, has been rebuked by postmodern theories. In this article the authors examine the encounter between Marxist and postmodernist theories and ponder whether and how to conceive of an emancipatory political subject. The article identifies the questions posed by worldwide protests in the context of the global economic crisis and outlines a typology of the differe…
Latin American inclusive and European exclusionary populism
The article addresses the fact that Latin-American populism is mostly inclusive and European populism mostly exclusionary, and argues that colonialism is an important key to understanding the development of either form of populism. Following a characterization of populism and of the links between colonialism and the conceptualization of the people, the article analyses Peronism and Le Pen's Front National as case studies to support its claim. Amo…
The Israeli Medical Association's discourse on health inequity
The 14th of July of Daphni Leef
Most of social sciences' research on Israel emphasizes ethnicity, status, nationality, identity, gender or coloniality as the central explanatory concepts. This article argues that in order to understand the emergence (as well as the limitations) of phenomena such as the 2011 social protest, the analysis must incorporate a class perspective. In answering questions such as which social groups initiated and supported the protest, what the socio-eco…
Military Conflict and Neo-Liberalization in Israel (2001–2006)
Existing analytical frameworks for the study of Israel’s political sociology and political economy tend to view the Israeli society as polarized into a neo-liberal secular and peace-seeking elite and religious ethno-republican social groups. The turn to ethno-republicanism following the outbreak of the Second Intifada in 2000, and two neo-liberal economic programs in 2002 and 2003, exposed the limitations of those approaches. We suggest that a Ne…
The physician as a neoliberal subject - A qualitative study within a private-public mix setting
From bioethics to biopolitics
While bioethicist Arthur Caplan claims that “The Nazi analogy is equivalent to dropping a nuclear bomb in ethical battles about science and medicine”, we claim that such total exclusion of this analogy is equally problematic. Our analysis builds on Roberto Esposito’s conceptualization of immunitas and communitas as key elements of biopolitics. Within public health theories and practices there is an inherent tension between exclusion (immunitas) a…
Populism, religion and family values policies in Israel, Italy and Turkey
There is a growing focus in political science on right-wing populist parties. But few comparative studies address their discourses and politics relating to family values, especially when involved with policy-making. Moreover, many comparative works about populism focus on a single region – often Western and Eastern Europe. This paper adopts a definition of populism with two different dimensions: the vertical (inclusive), which regards elites, and…
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