Susanna Hecht
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 465 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Susanna Hecht |
| NOMBRES | Susanna |
| APELLIDO | Hecht |
| FIRMA | HECHT S |
| AFILIACIONES | Brandeis University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6722-1500 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 220 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 30 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1989 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Antisemitism, Israel, and political ideology on the American college campus
Jewish Educational Interventions in an Era of Diversity
Ensuring that Jewish educational initiatives address the growing diversity of the US Jewish community requires, in part, understanding the background characteristics of participants and how a given educational program affects the trajectory of Jewish engagement for those with little, moderate, or a substantial amount of prior Jewish education and experiences. The present paper undertakes this analysis using the example of Birthright Israel. First…
Behind the Myth
The land sparing model, that is, the idea that agricultural intensification fosters environmental protection, lacks empirical validation. In Brazil, sustainable intensification through the conversion of degraded pastures into agricultural areas became a promising and widespread solution to deforestation. We investigate the mismatch between the land sparing discourse and the reality of productive and territorial strategies of large soybean produce…
The Reach and Impact of Birthright Israel
The Pew Research Center’s 2020 survey of American Jews is a valuable resource to scholars of American Jewry, enabling interrogation of questions using data that no other source can reliably provide. One set of questions pertains to the reach and impact of Birthright Israel, the largest extant Jewish educational program targeted at Jewish young adults, on American Jews. Pew’s nationally representative sample provides important validation of previo…
Antisemitism and polarization
Notwithstanding the increasing alignment between social and political identities, political divisions exist within social groups as well as between them. Despite their shared traditions, American Jews face similar political divisions as Americans in general. But could the perception of a common threat, such as antisemitism, alter the dynamics of political polarization within a social group? American Jews' concerns about antisemitism might themsel…
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Archaeological research provides clear evidence that the widespread formation of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) in tropical lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp demographic growth that peaked towards 1000 BP. In their recent paper, however, Silva et al. propose that the high fertility of ADE is not of anthropic origin but instead the result of alluvial deposition starting in the Middle Holocene (8200-4200…
Trends in Jewish Young Adult Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism in America from 2017 to 2019
Since 2016, a series of horrific acts motivated by antisemitism appear to have caused a fundamental shift in the prevalence of antisemitism in the United States. Little is known, however, about how the events during this time have affected the day-to-day experiences and concerns of American Jews. Using repeated cross-sectional data from surveys of Jewish young adults who applied to Birthright Israel, this paper analyzes recent trends in Jewish yo…
Lonely in Lockdown
As individuals undergoing a developmental process characterized by identity exploration, Jewish young adults are particularly vulnerable to the disruption of social connections related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent research has demonstrated that young adults, including young Jews, have experienced higher rates of mental health difficulties than older individuals during the pandemic. Using data from a survey of Jewish young adults who applied t…
Porque a Amazônia Brasileira está em chamas
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Why the Brazilian Amazon Burns
The policies and collaborations between governments and civil society that kept forests standing in many parts of Amazonia have come to an end, at least for now
From “Green Hell” to “Amazonia Legal”
Firing up
Changing fire regimes in the context of climate change call for new understandings of their diversity, use, policies, practices and politics. While catastrophic fires are redoubling calls for suppression, new political ecologies debate fire prohibition politics and emphasise understanding and incorporating local knowledge into management decisions. Latin American countries are characterised by strong regional tensions associated with environmenta…
Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
Europe and the people without history
What is the scale of the Mediterranean? It is the scale of history ... -Fernand Braudel ([1949] 1996)The impact of Eric Wolf's work is so extensive, and has been so naturalized in critical studies o
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production
Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities - serving as the nexus for the production of food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds of industrial products - and South America has become its leading production region. The soy boom on this continent entangles transnational capital and commodity flows with social relations deeply embedded in contested ecologies. In this introduction to the collection, we first describe the …
Smallholders, forest management and rural development in the Amazon
The wry advice Brazilians always advance to novice researchers is that ‘Amazonia isn't for beginners’. The implication is that there are a lot of invisibilities, covert pathways and dynamics that m
Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long-Distance Nationalism
Taglit-Birthright Israel has brought hundreds of thousands of diaspora Jewish young adults on tours of Israel. Drawing on data from a large-scale program evaluation, we ask how the program affects participants' feelings of homeland attachment and political views on contentious homeland issues. North Americans who traveled to Israel with Taglit between 2010 and 2012 were surveyed together with a comparison group of applicants to the program who di…
Intermarriage
Guest-Host Encounters in Diaspora-Heritage Tourism
More than 300,000 diaspora Jewish young adults and tens of thousands of their Israeli peers have participated in structured, cross-cultural encounters—mifgashim—in the context of an experiential education program known as Taglit-Birthright Israel. Drawing on field observations, interviews, and surveys, the formal and informal components of the encounters are described, and the meanings participants attach to the experience are analyzed. For North…
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005
Does the intensification of agriculture reduce cultivated areas and, in so doing, spare some lands by concentrating production on other lands? Such sparing is important for many reasons, among them the enhanced abilities of released lands to sequester carbon and provide other environmental services. Difficulties measuring the extent of spared land make it impossible to investigate fully the hypothesized causal chain from agricultural intensificat…
The new rurality
A nova ruralidade
O desmatamento ocupa a maior parte das manchetes da imprensa, mas também há processos de expansãoflorestal espalhados pela América Latina que não têm a mesma visibilidade. Este artigo explora o porquêdeste processo ser tão invisível e discute algumas das teorias utilizadas para se entender a recuperaçãoflorestal. O artigo também examina uma série de estudos de caso. A globalização desempenha um papelcada vez mais importante na estruturação das ec…
Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs
This article clarifies the role of triangulation in mixed methods research designs. Triangulation is used to describe "severe" statistical tests of correlation between alternative quantitative measurements and is employed to test the accuracy of those measurements. In contrast, the broader concept of mixed methods describes the integration of diverse qualitative and quantitative approaches and is employed to build theory. The concepts are develop…
On the Wild Coast
Susanna Hecht on Peter Redfield, Space in the Tropics: from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana. Defoe, Kafka and Verne unpacked from an anthropologist’s tool chest to frame new visions of France’s outpost in South America
Love and Death in Brazil
It is easy, indeed a cliché, to read Brazilian politics as a bad telenovela—a dramatic and vulgar soap opera about the new democracy in which the rich and powerful engage in intrigues and romances, corruptions and duplicities all leading to an uplifting conclusion by the last episode. The
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production
Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities - serving as the nexus for the production of food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds of industrial products - and South America has become its leading production region. The soy boom on this continent entangles transnational capital and commodity flows with social relations deeply embedded in contested ecologies. In this introduction to the collection, we first describe the …
The new rurality
Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long-Distance Nationalism
Taglit-Birthright Israel has brought hundreds of thousands of diaspora Jewish young adults on tours of Israel. Drawing on data from a large-scale program evaluation, we ask how the program affects participants' feelings of homeland attachment and political views on contentious homeland issues. North Americans who traveled to Israel with Taglit between 2010 and 2012 were surveyed together with a comparison group of applicants to the program who di…
The Fate of the Forest
Firing up
Changing fire regimes in the context of climate change call for new understandings of their diversity, use, policies, practices and politics. While catastrophic fires are redoubling calls for suppression, new political ecologies debate fire prohibition politics and emphasise understanding and incorporating local knowledge into management decisions. Latin American countries are characterised by strong regional tensions associated with environmenta…
From “Green Hell” to “Amazonia Legal”
Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs
This article clarifies the role of triangulation in mixed methods research designs. Triangulation is used to describe "severe" statistical tests of correlation between alternative quantitative measurements and is employed to test the accuracy of those measurements. In contrast, the broader concept of mixed methods describes the integration of diverse qualitative and quantitative approaches and is employed to build theory. The concepts are develop…
Guest-Host Encounters in Diaspora-Heritage Tourism
More than 300,000 diaspora Jewish young adults and tens of thousands of their Israeli peers have participated in structured, cross-cultural encounters—mifgashim—in the context of an experiential education program known as Taglit-Birthright Israel. Drawing on field observations, interviews, and surveys, the formal and informal components of the encounters are described, and the meanings participants attach to the experience are analyzed. For North…
Defenders of the Amazon
The conflict between developoment, ecology and the rights of forest dwellers in the Amazon region has resulted in deadly violence
Chico Mendes
Trees, Cows and Cocaine
O forest! They cut out your verdant heart. The grasses, the Brazil nut trees, the wild beasts already scent the smell of prison. This we say: People yearn to be free, so Who will then be the masters of our history
Defenders of the Amazon
The conflict between developoment, ecology and the rights of forest dwellers in the Amazon region has resulted in deadly violence
The Fate of the Forest
The Fate of the Forest
Love and Death in Brazil
It is easy, indeed a cliché, to read Brazilian politics as a bad telenovela—a dramatic and vulgar soap opera about the new democracy in which the rich and powerful engage in intrigues and romances, corruptions and duplicities all leading to an uplifting conclusion by the last episode. The
On the Wild Coast
Susanna Hecht on Peter Redfield, Space in the Tropics: from Convicts to Rockets in French Guiana. Defoe, Kafka and Verne unpacked from an anthropologist’s tool chest to frame new visions of France’s outpost in South America
A nova ruralidade
O desmatamento ocupa a maior parte das manchetes da imprensa, mas também há processos de expansãoflorestal espalhados pela América Latina que não têm a mesma visibilidade. Este artigo explora o porquêdeste processo ser tão invisível e discute algumas das teorias utilizadas para se entender a recuperaçãoflorestal. O artigo também examina uma série de estudos de caso. A globalização desempenha um papelcada vez mais importante na estruturação das ec…
Triangulation and Mixed Methods Designs
This article clarifies the role of triangulation in mixed methods research designs. Triangulation is used to describe "severe" statistical tests of correlation between alternative quantitative measurements and is employed to test the accuracy of those measurements. In contrast, the broader concept of mixed methods describes the integration of diverse qualitative and quantitative approaches and is employed to build theory. The concepts are develop…
Agricultural intensification and changes in cultivated areas, 1970–2005
Does the intensification of agriculture reduce cultivated areas and, in so doing, spare some lands by concentrating production on other lands? Such sparing is important for many reasons, among them the enhanced abilities of released lands to sequester carbon and provide other environmental services. Difficulties measuring the extent of spared land make it impossible to investigate fully the hypothesized causal chain from agricultural intensificat…
The new rurality
Intermarriage
Guest-Host Encounters in Diaspora-Heritage Tourism
More than 300,000 diaspora Jewish young adults and tens of thousands of their Israeli peers have participated in structured, cross-cultural encounters—mifgashim—in the context of an experiential education program known as Taglit-Birthright Israel. Drawing on field observations, interviews, and surveys, the formal and informal components of the encounters are described, and the meanings participants attach to the experience are analyzed. For North…
Does Taglit-Birthright Israel Foster Long-Distance Nationalism
Taglit-Birthright Israel has brought hundreds of thousands of diaspora Jewish young adults on tours of Israel. Drawing on data from a large-scale program evaluation, we ask how the program affects participants' feelings of homeland attachment and political views on contentious homeland issues. North Americans who traveled to Israel with Taglit between 2010 and 2012 were surveyed together with a comparison group of applicants to the program who di…
Smallholders, forest management and rural development in the Amazon
The wry advice Brazilians always advance to novice researchers is that ‘Amazonia isn't for beginners’. The implication is that there are a lot of invisibilities, covert pathways and dynamics that m
Sacred groves, sacrifice zones and soy production
Soy has become one of the world's most important agroindustrial commodities - serving as the nexus for the production of food, animal feed, fuel and hundreds of industrial products - and South America has become its leading production region. The soy boom on this continent entangles transnational capital and commodity flows with social relations deeply embedded in contested ecologies. In this introduction to the collection, we first describe the …
Harnessing cross-border resources to confront climate change
Europe and the people without history
What is the scale of the Mediterranean? It is the scale of history ... -Fernand Braudel ([1949] 1996)The impact of Eric Wolf's work is so extensive, and has been so naturalized in critical studies o
Firing up
Changing fire regimes in the context of climate change call for new understandings of their diversity, use, policies, practices and politics. While catastrophic fires are redoubling calls for suppression, new political ecologies debate fire prohibition politics and emphasise understanding and incorporating local knowledge into management decisions. Latin American countries are characterised by strong regional tensions associated with environmenta…
Why the Brazilian Amazon Burns
The policies and collaborations between governments and civil society that kept forests standing in many parts of Amazonia have come to an end, at least for now
From “Green Hell” to “Amazonia Legal”
Archaeology and ethnography demonstrate a human origin for Amazonian Dark Earths
Archaeological research provides clear evidence that the widespread formation of Amazonian Dark Earths (ADEs) in tropical lowland South America was concentrated in the Late Holocene, an outcome of sharp demographic growth that peaked towards 1000 BP. In their recent paper, however, Silva et al. propose that the high fertility of ADE is not of anthropic origin but instead the result of alluvial deposition starting in the Middle Holocene (8200-4200…
Trends in Jewish Young Adult Experiences and Perceptions of Antisemitism in America from 2017 to 2019
Since 2016, a series of horrific acts motivated by antisemitism appear to have caused a fundamental shift in the prevalence of antisemitism in the United States. Little is known, however, about how the events during this time have affected the day-to-day experiences and concerns of American Jews. Using repeated cross-sectional data from surveys of Jewish young adults who applied to Birthright Israel, this paper analyzes recent trends in Jewish yo…
Lonely in Lockdown
As individuals undergoing a developmental process characterized by identity exploration, Jewish young adults are particularly vulnerable to the disruption of social connections related to the COVID-19 pandemic. Recent research has demonstrated that young adults, including young Jews, have experienced higher rates of mental health difficulties than older individuals during the pandemic. Using data from a survey of Jewish young adults who applied t…
Porque a Amazônia Brasileira está em chamas
.
Geography (13 obras) · Conservation, Biodiversity, and Resource Management (12 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Sociology (9 obras) · Ecology (8 obras) · Jewish Identity and Society (8 obras) · Agriculture, Land Use, Rural Development (7 obras) · Amazon rainforest (7 obras) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 obras) · Biology (6 obras)