Svetlana Zilberstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 191998 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Svetlana Zilberstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Svetlana |
| FAMILY NAME | Zilberstein |
| SIGNATURE | ZILBERSTEIN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7564-727X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Jurisdictional gerrymandering
This paper develops the concept of jurisdictional gerrymandering to explain how professionals selectively invoke boundaries around their expertise to frame their role and maintain authority in solving problems that extend beyond their jurisdiction. Drawing on a study of artificial intelligence (AI) model development for healthcare, I analyze how AI practitioners position their work in relation to health equity, an issue they acknowledge cannot be…
Coincidence of the routes of the age of great geographical discoveries and the distribution of microplastics and plastic debris in the oceans
This work looks at the coincidence between the navigation routes of the Age of Discovery (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) and the distribution of modern microplastics and plastic waste in the oceans. Plastics in the oceans have been an additional factor in the Columbian Exchange and the changing health and biodiversity of the world's oceans. The ocean routes of the caravels and galleons of the Age of Discovery and the distribution of modern gi…
Ethical Dilemmas and Collaborative Resolutions in Machine Learning Research for Health Care
Drawing on ethnographic, interview, and textual data with researchers creating machine learning solutions for health care, the author explains how researchers justify their projects while grappling with uncertainties about the benefits and harms of machine learning. Researchers differentiate between a hypothesized world of machine learning and a “real” world of clinical practice. Each world relates to distinct frameworks for describing, evaluatin…
The Self in Action
This article develops a cultural and contextual approach to studying agency that attends to variation in how people narrate their experiences. Drawing on the large-scale, nationally representative American Voices Project data, the article uses computational methods to test patterns in agentic expression and qualitative methods to examine how respondents narrate agency and passivity as they describe their lives. This analysis captures agentic mome…
A Recently Discovered Letter From Captain Arthur Conolly
Models of generating cultural authority
‘V’ is for Valencia
This article deals with the documents of the counter-intelligence of the International Brigades (IB) relating to Eric (George Orwell) and Eileen Blair. The documents are divided into six groups: I – scheme of connections between different political groups from counterintelligence of IB point of view; II – a report on the structure of the ILP contingent; III – Eileen and Eric Blair tracking reports; IV – the search protocol of Eileen Blair's room …
Recreating a Plausible Future
This article analyzes how young adults draw on cultural resources to understand their identities, aspirations, and goals when taken-for-granted scripts of success are perceived as less desirable or achievable. Drawing on pragmatism, we propose the concept of 'plausible futures' to capture how people rearrange elements within cultural repertoires as a practical and moral project to define their identities, aspirations, and goals. We draw on interv…
A shabti of the Egyptian priest Amenmose unveiled
How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice
Software “Pinxit”
In the present report, we offer a novel way for studying (via optical and digital means) features in Renaissance and Leonardo’s (and of course any other painter who followed this canon) paintings, based on a software that separately recognizes white, red, green, blue colors and measures the intensity of single bright spots in canvasses. After mapping the distribution of individual colors, the software proposes a trajectory considering the differe…
Richard the Lionheart and the Ferocious Saladin Face to Face in Arsuf
On 7 September 1191, a fierce battle took place in Arsuf (Palestine) between the Crusaders (marching south towards Jerusalem) led by King Richard the Lionheart and the Ayyubid army commanded by the sultan Saladin. The confrontation lasted for most of the day and terminated with a victory of the Crusaders, proving Richard’s courage as a soldier and his skill as a commander while denting Saladin’s reputation as an invincible warrior. The site (toda…
Protecting Basic Legal Freedoms
With a focus on legal and other organizational actors beyond the state, this article seeks to expand the theory of conditions under which legal occupations will mobilize to fight for basic legal freedoms within states. It elaborates the line of scholarship on legal complexes and political liberalism within states since the 17 th century. First, we catalog harms that international organizations (IOs) of many kinds seek to protect in the more than …
Radial distribution of figures in Leonardo's and Renaissance paintings
Space Making as Artistic Practice
Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as connected to sources of dominant economic, social, and cultural capital and complicit in gentrification trends. This research challenges the conventional model by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to marginal and local groups, and the political economy of development in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen. Using mixed m…
Recreating a Plausible Future
This article analyzes how young adults draw on cultural resources to understand their identities, aspirations, and goals when taken-for-granted scripts of success are perceived as less desirable or achievable. Drawing on pragmatism, we propose the concept of 'plausible futures' to capture how people rearrange elements within cultural repertoires as a practical and moral project to define their identities, aspirations, and goals. We draw on interv…
Space Making as Artistic Practice
Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as connected to sources of dominant economic, social, and cultural capital and complicit in gentrification trends. This research challenges the conventional model by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to marginal and local groups, and the political economy of development in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen. Using mixed m…
The Self in Action
This article develops a cultural and contextual approach to studying agency that attends to variation in how people narrate their experiences. Drawing on the large-scale, nationally representative American Voices Project data, the article uses computational methods to test patterns in agentic expression and qualitative methods to examine how respondents narrate agency and passivity as they describe their lives. This analysis captures agentic mome…
How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice
Protecting Basic Legal Freedoms
With a focus on legal and other organizational actors beyond the state, this article seeks to expand the theory of conditions under which legal occupations will mobilize to fight for basic legal freedoms within states. It elaborates the line of scholarship on legal complexes and political liberalism within states since the 17 th century. First, we catalog harms that international organizations (IOs) of many kinds seek to protect in the more than …
Space Making as Artistic Practice
Standard narratives on the relationship between art and urban development detail art networks as connected to sources of dominant economic, social, and cultural capital and complicit in gentrification trends. This research challenges the conventional model by investigating the relationship between grassroots art spaces, tied to marginal and local groups, and the political economy of development in the Chicago neighborhood of Pilsen. Using mixed m…
Software “Pinxit”
In the present report, we offer a novel way for studying (via optical and digital means) features in Renaissance and Leonardo’s (and of course any other painter who followed this canon) paintings, based on a software that separately recognizes white, red, green, blue colors and measures the intensity of single bright spots in canvasses. After mapping the distribution of individual colors, the software proposes a trajectory considering the differe…
Richard the Lionheart and the Ferocious Saladin Face to Face in Arsuf
On 7 September 1191, a fierce battle took place in Arsuf (Palestine) between the Crusaders (marching south towards Jerusalem) led by King Richard the Lionheart and the Ayyubid army commanded by the sultan Saladin. The confrontation lasted for most of the day and terminated with a victory of the Crusaders, proving Richard’s courage as a soldier and his skill as a commander while denting Saladin’s reputation as an invincible warrior. The site (toda…
Protecting Basic Legal Freedoms
With a focus on legal and other organizational actors beyond the state, this article seeks to expand the theory of conditions under which legal occupations will mobilize to fight for basic legal freedoms within states. It elaborates the line of scholarship on legal complexes and political liberalism within states since the 17 th century. First, we catalog harms that international organizations (IOs) of many kinds seek to protect in the more than …
Radial distribution of figures in Leonardo's and Renaissance paintings
A shabti of the Egyptian priest Amenmose unveiled
How American college students understand social resilience and navigate towards the future during covid and the movement for racial justice
‘V’ is for Valencia
This article deals with the documents of the counter-intelligence of the International Brigades (IB) relating to Eric (George Orwell) and Eileen Blair. The documents are divided into six groups: I – scheme of connections between different political groups from counterintelligence of IB point of view; II – a report on the structure of the ILP contingent; III – Eileen and Eric Blair tracking reports; IV – the search protocol of Eileen Blair's room …
Recreating a Plausible Future
This article analyzes how young adults draw on cultural resources to understand their identities, aspirations, and goals when taken-for-granted scripts of success are perceived as less desirable or achievable. Drawing on pragmatism, we propose the concept of 'plausible futures' to capture how people rearrange elements within cultural repertoires as a practical and moral project to define their identities, aspirations, and goals. We draw on interv…
Ethical Dilemmas and Collaborative Resolutions in Machine Learning Research for Health Care
Drawing on ethnographic, interview, and textual data with researchers creating machine learning solutions for health care, the author explains how researchers justify their projects while grappling with uncertainties about the benefits and harms of machine learning. Researchers differentiate between a hypothesized world of machine learning and a “real” world of clinical practice. Each world relates to distinct frameworks for describing, evaluatin…
The Self in Action
This article develops a cultural and contextual approach to studying agency that attends to variation in how people narrate their experiences. Drawing on the large-scale, nationally representative American Voices Project data, the article uses computational methods to test patterns in agentic expression and qualitative methods to examine how respondents narrate agency and passivity as they describe their lives. This analysis captures agentic mome…
A Recently Discovered Letter From Captain Arthur Conolly
Models of generating cultural authority
Jurisdictional gerrymandering
This paper develops the concept of jurisdictional gerrymandering to explain how professionals selectively invoke boundaries around their expertise to frame their role and maintain authority in solving problems that extend beyond their jurisdiction. Drawing on a study of artificial intelligence (AI) model development for healthcare, I analyze how AI practitioners position their work in relation to health equity, an issue they acknowledge cannot be…
Coincidence of the routes of the age of great geographical discoveries and the distribution of microplastics and plastic debris in the oceans
This work looks at the coincidence between the navigation routes of the Age of Discovery (sixteenth to nineteenth centuries) and the distribution of modern microplastics and plastic waste in the oceans. Plastics in the oceans have been an additional factor in the Columbian Exchange and the changing health and biodiversity of the world's oceans. The ocean routes of the caravels and galleons of the Age of Discovery and the distribution of modern gi…
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