Liron Mor
Biographic Data
| ID | 2226333 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Liron Mor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Liron |
| FAMILY NAME | Mor |
| SIGNATURE | MOR L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Irvine |
| ORCID | 0009-0005-7222-5262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
“Matter in the Hands of the Maker”
As Zionist cultural production reveals, class formation in Palestine/Israel is bound to a racialized perception of Arabs as “natural workers”—hardworking yet unskilled, humble yet unruly. Besides Palestinians, this framework extends to Mizrahi Jews, rendering the two groups uncomfortably akin and structurally antagonistic. Analyzing texts produced at key moments in Zionist history, this article relates changes in representations of Mizrahi worker…
Conflicts
Conflicts examines sites of poetic and political strife in Palestine-Israel as a means for rethinking conflict itself. Critical of a universalizing, Western conception of conflict, the book delineates its colonial history and shows its inadequacy to Palestine-Israel. It turns to literature to articulate instead locally specific modes of theorizing the antagonisms and mediations, colonial technologies and indigenous techniques, that make up the fa…
Zionist Speculation
This essay considers speculation as a colonial method. To this end, it interrogates the ideological role of vision, understood as both a plan for the future and a mode of seeing, in early Zionist writing. Through an analysis of Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland (Old-New Land, 1902), a work of speculative fiction published by “the visionary” of Zionism, vision emerges as a practice of political and visual speculation that overlooks what already exists in…
Reorienting Visual Reading
This essay explores visual reading and its colonial aspects by analyzing the novel Ze ʿim ha-panim elenu (The One Facing Us, 1995), by Ronit Matalon, an Israeli Jewish author of Egyptian descent. In this novel Matalon displaces the dramas of Mizrahi Jews (Jews originating from the Arab and Muslim world) to Cameroon, thus stressing her protagonists’ uneasy positioning within the colonizer-colonized, West-East divides and connecting Zionist raciali…
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Reorienting Visual Reading
This essay explores visual reading and its colonial aspects by analyzing the novel Ze ʿim ha-panim elenu (The One Facing Us, 1995), by Ronit Matalon, an Israeli Jewish author of Egyptian descent. In this novel Matalon displaces the dramas of Mizrahi Jews (Jews originating from the Arab and Muslim world) to Cameroon, thus stressing her protagonists’ uneasy positioning within the colonizer-colonized, West-East divides and connecting Zionist raciali…
Zionist Speculation
This essay considers speculation as a colonial method. To this end, it interrogates the ideological role of vision, understood as both a plan for the future and a mode of seeing, in early Zionist writing. Through an analysis of Theodor Herzl’s Altneuland (Old-New Land, 1902), a work of speculative fiction published by “the visionary” of Zionism, vision emerges as a practice of political and visual speculation that overlooks what already exists in…
Conflicts
Conflicts examines sites of poetic and political strife in Palestine-Israel as a means for rethinking conflict itself. Critical of a universalizing, Western conception of conflict, the book delineates its colonial history and shows its inadequacy to Palestine-Israel. It turns to literature to articulate instead locally specific modes of theorizing the antagonisms and mediations, colonial technologies and indigenous techniques, that make up the fa…
“Matter in the Hands of the Maker”
As Zionist cultural production reveals, class formation in Palestine/Israel is bound to a racialized perception of Arabs as “natural workers”—hardworking yet unskilled, humble yet unruly. Besides Palestinians, this framework extends to Mizrahi Jews, rendering the two groups uncomfortably akin and structurally antagonistic. Analyzing texts produced at key moments in Zionist history, this article relates changes in representations of Mizrahi worker…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ideology (2 works)