D Monterescu
Biographic Data
| ID | 13172 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Monterescu |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Monterescu |
| SIGNATURE | MONTERESCU D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Central European University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6731-3015 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 195 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Baladi politics: The social life of an untranslatable agro-culinary category in Israel/Palestine
In Israel/Palestine, baladi , derived from the Arabic balad "Image missing" , is an agro-culinary category that operates as both a marker of authenticity and a site of political negotiation. This paper explores baladi as a borderline concept, simultaneously defining and destabilizing cultural and territorial boundaries. Palestinian uses of baladi often articulate indigeneity, environmental decolonization, revivalism, and gastro-political resistan…
Crossing the Line: Nationalist Gentrification and Settler Expansion in Israel's ‘Mixed Cities’
In this article we point to the intersection between political settlement movements, religion and economic gentrification by identifying a new type of gentrifier who has settled in Israel's mixed cities: the nationalist gentrifier. Against the background of Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005, experienced as a deep crisis in the Zionist‐religious settlement movement, new urban sites of spatial and sociopolitical action emerged. On the basis …
The politics of time: Political entropy, settler colonialism and urban ruination in Hebron / Al-Khalil, Palestine
Rebranding God: The Jewish Revival Movement between Homeland and Diaspora
Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and individual practices. These "Jewish Revival" and "Jewish Renewal" projects are led by Jewish NGOs and philanthropic organizations, the Orthodox Teshuva (return to the fold) movement and its well-known emissary Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and alternative …
The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
The tense but enduring engagement between anthropology and gender and sexuality studies has had profound effects upon anthropological theory and practice. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook shows that anthropological work has taken inspiration from feminist and LGBTQI movements to create a transformative body of research. It provides an accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of …
Radical conservatism and circumstantial multiculturalism: Jews, Christians and Muslims in a French Catholic School in Israel
The French Saint-Joseph school in Jaffa is one of the few educational institutions in Israel that have survived, since 1882, three political regimes without relinquishing pedagogical or managerial autonomy. This article examines the emergence of circumstantial multiculturalism in the midst of radical political changes in a colonial-international school. Since 1948, the school has been founded on three constitutive contradictions: a Catholic schoo…
Dancing with tears in our eyes: Political hipsters, alternative culture and binational urbanism in Israel/Palestine
Excessive redevelopment and gentrification in Jaffa produced liminal extra-territories which serve as fertile grounds for the emergence of unruly urban agencies. Drawing on seven years of ethnographic observations, interviews, and social media analysis of Anna Loulou bar, we outline the contours of a new social type – the political hipster. Unlike the archetypical hipster that could flourish in any urban setting, this specific agent is the produc…
Jaffa et Lod: Spectres De Guerre Civile
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine
In settler colonial settings, agriculture is a means of reclaiming territorial sovereignty and indigenous identity. Turning attention to the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and their multiple uses and abuses of organic farming, this article explores epistemic and political spatial operations on the colonial frontier. Applying a relational conceptualization of three spatial modalities-soil, territory, and land-we explore the ways in which these m…
Bad Virus, Good Microbes: The Global Domestication of Yeast Cultures and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Research Article| August 01 2020 Bad Virus, Good Microbes: The Global Domestication of Yeast Cultures and the COVID-19 Pandemic Noa Berger, Noa Berger Noa Berger is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. Her research follows the emergence of a market for specialty coffee in France and Brazil. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scho…
Terroir and Territory on the Colonial Frontier: Making New-Old World Wine in the Holy Land
Etymologically related, the concepts ofterroirandterritorialitydisplay divergent cultural histories. While one designates the palatable characteristics of place as a branded story of geographic distinction, the other imbues the soil with political meaning. This paper traces the production of eno-locality in a contested space on both sides of the Green Line in Israel/Palestine. The case of the Yatir award-winning winery shows how terroir and terri…
Liquid indigeneity: Wine, science, and colonial politics in Israel/Palestine
Israel/Palestine is a site of bitter struggle over definitions of indigeneity and settlerness. In 2008 the first Palestinian "indigenous wine" was released, introducing a discourse of primordial place-based authenticity into the wine field. Today, winemakers, scientists, autochthonous grapes, and native wines reconfigure the field of gastronationalism. Palestinian and Israeli wine industries can now claim exclusive historical entitlement in a glo…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Response to Ilan Zvi Baron's review of Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Immobilizing mobility: Border ethnography, illiberal democracy, and the politics of the "refugee crisis" in Hungary
In the summer of 2015, more than 350,000 migrants moved through Hungarian territory. Almost immediately there emerged in response a dialectic between, on the one hand, depoliticizing narratives of crisis that sought to immobilize the migrants and, on the other, concrete political mobilization that sought to facilitate their mobility. While state institutions and humanitarian volunteer groups framed mobility in terms that emphasized a vertical for…
Marginalité créative. La scène alternative judéo-arabe de Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Considérées comme les « arrière-cours » du paysage urbain israélien, les villes pluriethniques ont surtout été étudiées à la lumière du paradigme de la marginalité. Or ce paradigme omet de reconnaître la dimension sociale de ces espaces, qui sont des mondes vécus à part entière. L'article aborde la problématique de la marginalité et du pluralisme dans une ville judéo-arabe en s'appuyant sur des données d'archive et de terrain. Il ne fait pas de c…
Situational Radicalism: The Israeli “Arab Spring” and the (Un)Making of the Rebel City
Estranged Natives and Indigenized Immigrants: A Relational Anthropology of Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel
The Bridled Bride of Palestine: Orientalism, Zionism, and the Troubled Urban Imagination
Through ethnographic and archival research centered in Jaffa, this article analyzes how the image of the Jewish-Arab mixed city has been represented and (re)produced in the Zionist historical imagination since the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Vacillating between romantic historicity and political violence, the image of Jaffa poses a political and hermeneutic challenge to the territorial project of urban Judaization, which …
To Buy or Not to Be: Trespassing the Gated Community
The emergence of gated communities in Israel/Palestine signals new modes of urban exclusion, which reshape previous forms of spatial distinction. Focusing on the ethnically "mixed town" of Jaffa, where an unprecedented number of such gated communities have been constructed in the past decade, this article interrogates the modus operandi of the Andromeda Hill project and Palestinian resistance to it. Conceptualized as a neoliberal mode of ethnogen…
Reconfiguring the “Mixed Town”: Urban Transformations of Ethnonational Relations in Palestine and Israel
Studies of Middle Eastern urbanism have traditionally been guided by a limited repertoire of tropes, many of which emphasize antiquity, confinement, and religiosity. Notions of the old city, the walled city, the casbah, the native quarter, and the medina, sometimes subsumed in the quintessential “Islamic city,” have all been part of Western scholarship's long-standing fascination with the region. Etched in emblematic “holy cities” like Jerusalem,…
The "Housing Intifada" and Its Aftermath
Eros and Thanatos in Israeli military culture
Danny Kaplan, The men we loved: Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007, 190 pp., ISBN 1845451937
Stranger masculinities: Gender and politics in a Palestinian–Israeli ‘third space’
Immobilizing mobility: Border ethnography, illiberal democracy, and the politics of the "refugee crisis" in Hungary
In the summer of 2015, more than 350,000 migrants moved through Hungarian territory. Almost immediately there emerged in response a dialectic between, on the one hand, depoliticizing narratives of crisis that sought to immobilize the migrants and, on the other, concrete political mobilization that sought to facilitate their mobility. While state institutions and humanitarian volunteer groups framed mobility in terms that emphasized a vertical for…
Reconfiguring the “Mixed Town”: Urban Transformations of Ethnonational Relations in Palestine and Israel
Studies of Middle Eastern urbanism have traditionally been guided by a limited repertoire of tropes, many of which emphasize antiquity, confinement, and religiosity. Notions of the old city, the walled city, the casbah, the native quarter, and the medina, sometimes subsumed in the quintessential “Islamic city,” have all been part of Western scholarship's long-standing fascination with the region. Etched in emblematic “holy cities” like Jerusalem,…
Liquid indigeneity: Wine, science, and colonial politics in Israel/Palestine
Israel/Palestine is a site of bitter struggle over definitions of indigeneity and settlerness. In 2008 the first Palestinian "indigenous wine" was released, introducing a discourse of primordial place-based authenticity into the wine field. Today, winemakers, scientists, autochthonous grapes, and native wines reconfigure the field of gastronationalism. Palestinian and Israeli wine industries can now claim exclusive historical entitlement in a glo…
Situational Radicalism: The Israeli “Arab Spring” and the (Un)Making of the Rebel City
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine
In settler colonial settings, agriculture is a means of reclaiming territorial sovereignty and indigenous identity. Turning attention to the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and their multiple uses and abuses of organic farming, this article explores epistemic and political spatial operations on the colonial frontier. Applying a relational conceptualization of three spatial modalities-soil, territory, and land-we explore the ways in which these m…
Estranged Natives and Indigenized Immigrants: A Relational Anthropology of Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel
To Buy or Not to Be: Trespassing the Gated Community
The emergence of gated communities in Israel/Palestine signals new modes of urban exclusion, which reshape previous forms of spatial distinction. Focusing on the ethnically "mixed town" of Jaffa, where an unprecedented number of such gated communities have been constructed in the past decade, this article interrogates the modus operandi of the Andromeda Hill project and Palestinian resistance to it. Conceptualized as a neoliberal mode of ethnogen…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Terroir and Territory on the Colonial Frontier: Making New-Old World Wine in the Holy Land
Etymologically related, the concepts ofterroirandterritorialitydisplay divergent cultural histories. While one designates the palatable characteristics of place as a branded story of geographic distinction, the other imbues the soil with political meaning. This paper traces the production of eno-locality in a contested space on both sides of the Green Line in Israel/Palestine. The case of the Yatir award-winning winery shows how terroir and terri…
The politics of time: Political entropy, settler colonialism and urban ruination in Hebron / Al-Khalil, Palestine
Marginalité créative. La scène alternative judéo-arabe de Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Considérées comme les « arrière-cours » du paysage urbain israélien, les villes pluriethniques ont surtout été étudiées à la lumière du paradigme de la marginalité. Or ce paradigme omet de reconnaître la dimension sociale de ces espaces, qui sont des mondes vécus à part entière. L'article aborde la problématique de la marginalité et du pluralisme dans une ville judéo-arabe en s'appuyant sur des données d'archive et de terrain. Il ne fait pas de c…
Crossing the Line: Nationalist Gentrification and Settler Expansion in Israel's ‘Mixed Cities’
In this article we point to the intersection between political settlement movements, religion and economic gentrification by identifying a new type of gentrifier who has settled in Israel's mixed cities: the nationalist gentrifier. Against the background of Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005, experienced as a deep crisis in the Zionist‐religious settlement movement, new urban sites of spatial and sociopolitical action emerged. On the basis …
The "Housing Intifada" and Its Aftermath
Stranger masculinities: Gender and politics in a Palestinian–Israeli ‘third space’
Reconfiguring the “Mixed Town”: Urban Transformations of Ethnonational Relations in Palestine and Israel
Studies of Middle Eastern urbanism have traditionally been guided by a limited repertoire of tropes, many of which emphasize antiquity, confinement, and religiosity. Notions of the old city, the walled city, the casbah, the native quarter, and the medina, sometimes subsumed in the quintessential “Islamic city,” have all been part of Western scholarship's long-standing fascination with the region. Etched in emblematic “holy cities” like Jerusalem,…
The "Housing Intifada" and Its Aftermath
Eros and Thanatos in Israeli military culture
Danny Kaplan, The men we loved: Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2007, 190 pp., ISBN 1845451937
The Bridled Bride of Palestine: Orientalism, Zionism, and the Troubled Urban Imagination
Through ethnographic and archival research centered in Jaffa, this article analyzes how the image of the Jewish-Arab mixed city has been represented and (re)produced in the Zionist historical imagination since the establishment of the state of Israel to the present. Vacillating between romantic historicity and political violence, the image of Jaffa poses a political and hermeneutic challenge to the territorial project of urban Judaization, which …
To Buy or Not to Be: Trespassing the Gated Community
The emergence of gated communities in Israel/Palestine signals new modes of urban exclusion, which reshape previous forms of spatial distinction. Focusing on the ethnically "mixed town" of Jaffa, where an unprecedented number of such gated communities have been constructed in the past decade, this article interrogates the modus operandi of the Andromeda Hill project and Palestinian resistance to it. Conceptualized as a neoliberal mode of ethnogen…
Estranged Natives and Indigenized Immigrants: A Relational Anthropology of Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel
Situational Radicalism: The Israeli “Arab Spring” and the (Un)Making of the Rebel City
Marginalité créative. La scène alternative judéo-arabe de Tel Aviv-Jaffa
Considérées comme les « arrière-cours » du paysage urbain israélien, les villes pluriethniques ont surtout été étudiées à la lumière du paradigme de la marginalité. Or ce paradigme omet de reconnaître la dimension sociale de ces espaces, qui sont des mondes vécus à part entière. L'article aborde la problématique de la marginalité et du pluralisme dans une ville judéo-arabe en s'appuyant sur des données d'archive et de terrain. Il ne fait pas de c…
Immobilizing mobility: Border ethnography, illiberal democracy, and the politics of the "refugee crisis" in Hungary
In the summer of 2015, more than 350,000 migrants moved through Hungarian territory. Almost immediately there emerged in response a dialectic between, on the one hand, depoliticizing narratives of crisis that sought to immobilize the migrants and, on the other, concrete political mobilization that sought to facilitate their mobility. While state institutions and humanitarian volunteer groups framed mobility in terms that emphasized a vertical for…
Response to Ilan Zvi Baron's review of Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Liquid indigeneity: Wine, science, and colonial politics in Israel/Palestine
Israel/Palestine is a site of bitter struggle over definitions of indigeneity and settlerness. In 2008 the first Palestinian "indigenous wine" was released, introducing a discourse of primordial place-based authenticity into the wine field. Today, winemakers, scientists, autochthonous grapes, and native wines reconfigure the field of gastronationalism. Palestinian and Israeli wine industries can now claim exclusive historical entitlement in a glo…
On politics and precarity in academia
The terror of the neoliberal markets and the terror of politics both threaten academic freedom - sometimes subtly, sometimes more openly. In this Forum, we ask our contributors to reflect on the entanglements between economy and politics and how they contribute to the ongoing precaritisation in academia, how they shape individual researchers' biographies and how they influence academic research. But more importantly, beyond analysis, this Forum a…
Bad Virus, Good Microbes: The Global Domestication of Yeast Cultures and the Covid-19 Pandemic
Research Article| August 01 2020 Bad Virus, Good Microbes: The Global Domestication of Yeast Cultures and the COVID-19 Pandemic Noa Berger, Noa Berger Noa Berger is a PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris, France. Her research follows the emergence of a market for specialty coffee in France and Brazil. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scho…
Terroir and Territory on the Colonial Frontier: Making New-Old World Wine in the Holy Land
Etymologically related, the concepts ofterroirandterritorialitydisplay divergent cultural histories. While one designates the palatable characteristics of place as a branded story of geographic distinction, the other imbues the soil with political meaning. This paper traces the production of eno-locality in a contested space on both sides of the Green Line in Israel/Palestine. The case of the Yatir award-winning winery shows how terroir and terri…
Dancing with tears in our eyes: Political hipsters, alternative culture and binational urbanism in Israel/Palestine
Excessive redevelopment and gentrification in Jaffa produced liminal extra-territories which serve as fertile grounds for the emergence of unruly urban agencies. Drawing on seven years of ethnographic observations, interviews, and social media analysis of Anna Loulou bar, we outline the contours of a new social type – the political hipster. Unlike the archetypical hipster that could flourish in any urban setting, this specific agent is the produc…
Jaffa et Lod: Spectres De Guerre Civile
Soil, territory, land: The spatial politics of settler organic farming in the West Bank, Israel/Palestine
In settler colonial settings, agriculture is a means of reclaiming territorial sovereignty and indigenous identity. Turning attention to the Jewish settlers in the West Bank and their multiple uses and abuses of organic farming, this article explores epistemic and political spatial operations on the colonial frontier. Applying a relational conceptualization of three spatial modalities-soil, territory, and land-we explore the ways in which these m…
Radical conservatism and circumstantial multiculturalism: Jews, Christians and Muslims in a French Catholic School in Israel
The French Saint-Joseph school in Jaffa is one of the few educational institutions in Israel that have survived, since 1882, three political regimes without relinquishing pedagogical or managerial autonomy. This article examines the emergence of circumstantial multiculturalism in the midst of radical political changes in a colonial-international school. Since 1948, the school has been founded on three constitutive contradictions: a Catholic schoo…
The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality
The tense but enduring engagement between anthropology and gender and sexuality studies has had profound effects upon anthropological theory and practice. Bringing together contributions from an international team of authors, this Handbook shows that anthropological work has taken inspiration from feminist and LGBTQI movements to create a transformative body of research. It provides an accessible, state-of-the-art overview of the anthropology of …
Crossing the Line: Nationalist Gentrification and Settler Expansion in Israel's ‘Mixed Cities’
In this article we point to the intersection between political settlement movements, religion and economic gentrification by identifying a new type of gentrifier who has settled in Israel's mixed cities: the nationalist gentrifier. Against the background of Israel's disengagement from Gaza in 2005, experienced as a deep crisis in the Zionist‐religious settlement movement, new urban sites of spatial and sociopolitical action emerged. On the basis …
The politics of time: Political entropy, settler colonialism and urban ruination in Hebron / Al-Khalil, Palestine
Rebranding God: The Jewish Revival Movement between Homeland and Diaspora
Against the gloomy forecast of "The Vanishing Diaspora", the end of the second millennium saw the global emergence of a dazzling array of Jewish cultural initiatives, institutional modalities, and individual practices. These "Jewish Revival" and "Jewish Renewal" projects are led by Jewish NGOs and philanthropic organizations, the Orthodox Teshuva (return to the fold) movement and its well-known emissary Chabad-Lubavitch Hasidism, and alternative …
Baladi politics: The social life of an untranslatable agro-culinary category in Israel/Palestine
In Israel/Palestine, baladi , derived from the Arabic balad "Image missing" , is an agro-culinary category that operates as both a marker of authenticity and a site of political negotiation. This paper explores baladi as a borderline concept, simultaneously defining and destabilizing cultural and territorial boundaries. Palestinian uses of baladi often articulate indigeneity, environmental decolonization, revivalism, and gastro-political resistan…
Sociology (20 works) · Political science (17 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (14 works) · Law (14 works) · Politics (12 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Gender Studies (8 works) · History (8 works) · Art (7 works) · Geography (7 works)