Gili Hammer
Biographic Data
| ID | 180519 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Gili Hammer |
| GIVEN NAMES | Gili |
| FAMILY NAME | Hammer |
| SIGNATURE | HAMMER G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6793-6418 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Introduction
Intersensory communication in a deaf-blind theater
A Pirouette with the Twist of a Wheelchair
The field of integrated dance brings together dancers with and without disabilities to create a novel art form. In dancing together, participants engage in a process of "translation" to interpret and enact movement, a practice I term embodied translation. This practice involves distilling a movement to its kinesthetic and expressive core, then exploring potential manifestations of those elements through various uses of space, objects, and bodies.…
Expanding intersubjective awareness
When people with widely diverse bodily characteristics collaborate in dancing together, an exploration and communication of movement and embodied knowledge takes place through dialogue and shared practice. Engagement in these activities develops participants' awareness of and appreciation for kinaesthetic complexities and diverse embodiments, promoting an understanding of bodily difference as contributing to, rather than detracting from, the real…
You Can Learn Merely by Listening to the Way a Patient Walks through the Door
Examining the mechanisms of medical knowledge transfer, this article addresses the ways nonvisual senses are employed within medical training, asking about the role of sound, touch, and movement in transmitting knowledge of the body. Based on a 10-month ethnography in a medical massage training course for blind students, the article examines the ways sensory medical knowledge is transferred in this setting. I discuss the multisensory characterist…
If They're Going to Stare, at Least I'll Give Them a Good Reason To
This article focuses on blind women’s negotiation of their hypervisibility and invisibility and on their encounters with the gaze as blind and as women. Based on interviews with blind women in Israel, the essay employs the anthropological methodology of life history or life story narrative, focusing on three women’s narratives and providing a close reading of blind women’s experience of the visual. Addressing the ways blind women verbalize their …
Insights from the Glass Cage”
My dissertation research focuses on blind women’s gender identity and the cultural representations of sight and blindness in the Israeli public sphere. Arguing for the ways blindness as a social, cultural, and physical phenomenon offers the opportunity to challenge social binaries and rethink social otherness, the research integrates the scholarships of feminist disability studies, anthropology of the senses, and visual culture into a scholarly c…
Pedaling in pairs toward a 'dialogical performance
Focusing on social dialogue and the sensory body within a tandem cycling group pairing blind and sighted riders, this article addresses the creation of a 'dialogical performance' (Conquergood, 1985), arguing for the ways integrated tandem cycling challenges distinct binary categories, bodily hierarchies, and constructs of social otherness. Based on one year of fieldwork conducted during cycling, I examine the form of 'togetherness' this activity …
Blind Women's Appearance Management
This article examines the contradictions inherent in blind women's appearance management. Based on an anthropological analysis of interviews with 40 blind women in Israel, the article argues that while serving as a valuable tool within stigma management, appearance management operates simultaneously as a site of rigorous discipline of the body in an effort to comply with feminine visual norms, and as a vehicle for the expression and reception of …
Pedaling in pairs toward a 'dialogical performance
Focusing on social dialogue and the sensory body within a tandem cycling group pairing blind and sighted riders, this article addresses the creation of a 'dialogical performance' (Conquergood, 1985), arguing for the ways integrated tandem cycling challenges distinct binary categories, bodily hierarchies, and constructs of social otherness. Based on one year of fieldwork conducted during cycling, I examine the form of 'togetherness' this activity …
Blind Women's Appearance Management
This article examines the contradictions inherent in blind women's appearance management. Based on an anthropological analysis of interviews with 40 blind women in Israel, the article argues that while serving as a valuable tool within stigma management, appearance management operates simultaneously as a site of rigorous discipline of the body in an effort to comply with feminine visual norms, and as a vehicle for the expression and reception of …
You Can Learn Merely by Listening to the Way a Patient Walks through the Door
Examining the mechanisms of medical knowledge transfer, this article addresses the ways nonvisual senses are employed within medical training, asking about the role of sound, touch, and movement in transmitting knowledge of the body. Based on a 10-month ethnography in a medical massage training course for blind students, the article examines the ways sensory medical knowledge is transferred in this setting. I discuss the multisensory characterist…
A Pirouette with the Twist of a Wheelchair
The field of integrated dance brings together dancers with and without disabilities to create a novel art form. In dancing together, participants engage in a process of "translation" to interpret and enact movement, a practice I term embodied translation. This practice involves distilling a movement to its kinesthetic and expressive core, then exploring potential manifestations of those elements through various uses of space, objects, and bodies.…
Expanding intersubjective awareness
When people with widely diverse bodily characteristics collaborate in dancing together, an exploration and communication of movement and embodied knowledge takes place through dialogue and shared practice. Engagement in these activities develops participants' awareness of and appreciation for kinaesthetic complexities and diverse embodiments, promoting an understanding of bodily difference as contributing to, rather than detracting from, the real…
If They're Going to Stare, at Least I'll Give Them a Good Reason To
This article focuses on blind women’s negotiation of their hypervisibility and invisibility and on their encounters with the gaze as blind and as women. Based on interviews with blind women in Israel, the essay employs the anthropological methodology of life history or life story narrative, focusing on three women’s narratives and providing a close reading of blind women’s experience of the visual. Addressing the ways blind women verbalize their …
Blind Women's Appearance Management
This article examines the contradictions inherent in blind women's appearance management. Based on an anthropological analysis of interviews with 40 blind women in Israel, the article argues that while serving as a valuable tool within stigma management, appearance management operates simultaneously as a site of rigorous discipline of the body in an effort to comply with feminine visual norms, and as a vehicle for the expression and reception of …
Insights from the Glass Cage”
My dissertation research focuses on blind women’s gender identity and the cultural representations of sight and blindness in the Israeli public sphere. Arguing for the ways blindness as a social, cultural, and physical phenomenon offers the opportunity to challenge social binaries and rethink social otherness, the research integrates the scholarships of feminist disability studies, anthropology of the senses, and visual culture into a scholarly c…
Pedaling in pairs toward a 'dialogical performance
Focusing on social dialogue and the sensory body within a tandem cycling group pairing blind and sighted riders, this article addresses the creation of a 'dialogical performance' (Conquergood, 1985), arguing for the ways integrated tandem cycling challenges distinct binary categories, bodily hierarchies, and constructs of social otherness. Based on one year of fieldwork conducted during cycling, I examine the form of 'togetherness' this activity …
If They're Going to Stare, at Least I'll Give Them a Good Reason To
This article focuses on blind women’s negotiation of their hypervisibility and invisibility and on their encounters with the gaze as blind and as women. Based on interviews with blind women in Israel, the essay employs the anthropological methodology of life history or life story narrative, focusing on three women’s narratives and providing a close reading of blind women’s experience of the visual. Addressing the ways blind women verbalize their …
You Can Learn Merely by Listening to the Way a Patient Walks through the Door
Examining the mechanisms of medical knowledge transfer, this article addresses the ways nonvisual senses are employed within medical training, asking about the role of sound, touch, and movement in transmitting knowledge of the body. Based on a 10-month ethnography in a medical massage training course for blind students, the article examines the ways sensory medical knowledge is transferred in this setting. I discuss the multisensory characterist…
Expanding intersubjective awareness
When people with widely diverse bodily characteristics collaborate in dancing together, an exploration and communication of movement and embodied knowledge takes place through dialogue and shared practice. Engagement in these activities develops participants' awareness of and appreciation for kinaesthetic complexities and diverse embodiments, promoting an understanding of bodily difference as contributing to, rather than detracting from, the real…
A Pirouette with the Twist of a Wheelchair
The field of integrated dance brings together dancers with and without disabilities to create a novel art form. In dancing together, participants engage in a process of "translation" to interpret and enact movement, a practice I term embodied translation. This practice involves distilling a movement to its kinesthetic and expressive core, then exploring potential manifestations of those elements through various uses of space, objects, and bodies.…
Introduction
Intersensory communication in a deaf-blind theater
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Communication (5 works) · Disability Rights and Representation (5 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · Communication (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Blindness (3 works)