Uri Ram
Biographic Data
| ID | 255585 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Uri Ram |
| GIVEN NAMES | Uri |
| FAMILY NAME | Ram |
| SIGNATURE | RAM U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4746-5126 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 174 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 35 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
McDonaldization: Reviving classical sociological theory
Since its modest launching in the early 1960s, McDonald’s Corporation has become one of the greatest food retailers on earth, operating in 41,822 restaurant outlets in 119 countries worldwide and serving over 70 million customers daily. In the early 1980s, George Ritzer, a sociologist, turned ‘McDonaldization’ into a concept which decrypts the elementary societal forms of late-20th-century modernity: efficiency, calculability, predictability and …
Israeli Sociology
“The Promised Land of Business Opportunities: ” Liberal Post-Zionism in the Glocal Age
This chapter discusses the process of globalization-localization, namely, glocalization, and its effects on the spheres of nationality, democracy and welfare. It explores the limelight on Israel, offering an initial exploration of the effects of glocalization on Israeli society, and introducing the concept of post-Zionism. The chapter deals with the new political economy of Israel: the emergence of post-industrial economic structure; the integrat…
The 14th of July of Daphni Leef: Class and social protest in Israel
Most of social sciences' research on Israel emphasizes ethnicity, status, nationality, identity, gender or coloniality as the central explanatory concepts. This article argues that in order to understand the emergence (as well as the limitations) of phenomena such as the 2011 social protest, the analysis must incorporate a class perspective. In answering questions such as which social groups initiated and supported the protest, what the socio-eco…
Israel and Palestine: Thinking the “One State Solution
Israeli Sociology: Social Thought Amidst Struggles and Conflicts
The basic challenge of Israeli sociology always has been, and continues to be to present days, the designation of its object of study; i.e. ‘Israeli society’. The history of Israeli sociology and its conception of ‘Israeli society’ may be discerned into the five following modules: 1. Proto-sociology. In the pre-state era, sociological thought thrived within the context of the socialist Zionism. The two prominent ‘proto-sociologists' were Arthur R…
Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine
Marxism after postmodernism: Rethinking the emancipatory political subject
The concept of a historical-social and political emancipatory subject, central in Marxism, has been rebuked by postmodern theories. In this article the authors examine the encounter between Marxist and postmodernist theories and ponder whether and how to conceive of an emancipatory political subject. The article identifies the questions posed by worldwide protests in the context of the global economic crisis and outlines a typology of the differe…
The Globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, Jihad in Jerusalem
This book focuses on how globalization is impacting contemporary Israel. It is a concise and originally argued introduction to Israel, but the author, Uri Ram, is careful to frame his analysis in a broader discussion of Israeli history and broader social currents. Focusing in particular on two defining – and conflicting – contemporary trends; one toward advanced liberal democracy with a cosmopolitan edge, and the other toward ethno-religious trad…
Authentic, Speedy and Hybrid: Representations of Chinese Food and Cultural Globalization in Israel
This article uses Chinese food as a prism to analyze the process of globalization in Israeli culture since the 1970s. We describe three distinct eras in the evolution of culinary globalization within Israel: first, the appearance of a variety of foods and tastes perceived as representations of “other” nations; second, the commodification of these foods and tastes and their distribution via fast-food chains as mass consumption items (i.e. “McDonal…
Israeli Nationalism: Social Conflicts and the Politics of Knowledge
The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers. This book examines the issue of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, combining a sociological study of national culture with a detailed analysis of Israeli national discourse. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the author explores the categories of thought that consti…
Introduction: The Culture of Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Tensions in the “Jewish Democracy: The Constitutional Challenge of the Palestinian Citizens in Israel
Ways of Forgetting: Israel and the Obliterated Memory of the Palestinian Nakba
This study analyses national ways of forgetting. Following the eminent British Anthropologists Mary Douglas, I relate here to "forgetting" as "selective remembering, misremembering and disremembering" (Douglas 2007: 13). The case study offered here is that of the Israeli-Jewish forgetting of the uprooting of the Palestinians in the war of 1948. This paper discusses three facets of the collective forgetting: Inthe first subchapterI analyze the fou…
Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Why Secularism Fails? Secular Nationalism and Religious Revivalism in Israel
Liquid identities: Mecca Cola versus Coca-Cola
The Mecca Cola drink combines in its brand name two contrasting iconic images: one signifies `authenticity', whereas the other signifies a `commodity'. The conspicuous juxtaposition of `Mecca' and `Cola' and their hyphenization evokes the question: what is becoming of `authenticity' in a thoroughly commodified world society? This article proposes that a distinction ought to be drawn between the effects of commodification on two distinct levels: t…
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel
Critical Studies of Ethnic Nationalism in Israel
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The globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, jihad in Jerusalem
Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies. by Enrique Peruzzoti and Catalina Smulovitz
Nationalism and its Futures
Post-Zionist Studies of Israel - The First Decade
The present article focuses upon post-Zionism as an emergent counter-hegemonic discourse in contemporary Israel. Offered here are a broad analysis and survey of post-Zionism in the following order: (1) a review of the history of the concept post-Zionism' since its emergence in 1993, as well as a retrospective view of its sources; (2) an exposure of manifestations of post-Zionist culture in Israel; (3) an analysis of four different theories of pos…
Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local - McDonald's in Israel
The global-local encounter has spawned a complex polemic between 'homogenizers' and 'heterogenizers'. Does globalization lead to universal cultural uniformity, or leave room for particularism and cultural diversity? This article proposes shifting the ground of the debate from the homogeneous-heterogeneous dichotomy to a structural-symbolic construct. It is argued here that while both homogenization and heterogenization occur, they do so at differ…
Historiosophical foundations of the historical strife in Israel
Ways of Forgetting: Israel and the Obliterated Memory of the Palestinian Nakba
This study analyses national ways of forgetting. Following the eminent British Anthropologists Mary Douglas, I relate here to "forgetting" as "selective remembering, misremembering and disremembering" (Douglas 2007: 13). The case study offered here is that of the Israeli-Jewish forgetting of the uprooting of the Palestinians in the war of 1948. This paper discusses three facets of the collective forgetting: Inthe first subchapterI analyze the fou…
Why Secularism Fails? Secular Nationalism and Religious Revivalism in Israel
The State of the Nation: Contemporary Challenges to Zionism in Israel
Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local - McDonald's in Israel
The global-local encounter has spawned a complex polemic between 'homogenizers' and 'heterogenizers'. Does globalization lead to universal cultural uniformity, or leave room for particularism and cultural diversity? This article proposes shifting the ground of the debate from the homogeneous-heterogeneous dichotomy to a structural-symbolic construct. It is argued here that while both homogenization and heterogenization occur, they do so at differ…
The Colonization Perspective in Israeli Sociology: Internal and External Comparisons
Though the characterization of Zionism as a colonial project is probably as old as the Zionist movement, as a specific scholarly sociological perspective in Israeli academia it was formulated only lately, in the wake of the Six Day War of 1967 This article outlines the contours of this new perspective, its theoretical assumptions and its political implications. It examines the historical circumstances which propelled its emergence, and than disce…
National, Ethnic or Civic? Contesting Paradigms of Memory, Identity and Culture in Israel
Authentic, Speedy and Hybrid: Representations of Chinese Food and Cultural Globalization in Israel
This article uses Chinese food as a prism to analyze the process of globalization in Israeli culture since the 1970s. We describe three distinct eras in the evolution of culinary globalization within Israel: first, the appearance of a variety of foods and tastes perceived as representations of “other” nations; second, the commodification of these foods and tastes and their distribution via fast-food chains as mass consumption items (i.e. “McDonal…
Liquid identities: Mecca Cola versus Coca-Cola
The Mecca Cola drink combines in its brand name two contrasting iconic images: one signifies `authenticity', whereas the other signifies a `commodity'. The conspicuous juxtaposition of `Mecca' and `Cola' and their hyphenization evokes the question: what is becoming of `authenticity' in a thoroughly commodified world society? This article proposes that a distinction ought to be drawn between the effects of commodification on two distinct levels: t…
Post-Zionist Studies of Israel - The First Decade
The present article focuses upon post-Zionism as an emergent counter-hegemonic discourse in contemporary Israel. Offered here are a broad analysis and survey of post-Zionism in the following order: (1) a review of the history of the concept post-Zionism' since its emergence in 1993, as well as a retrospective view of its sources; (2) an exposure of manifestations of post-Zionist culture in Israel; (3) an analysis of four different theories of pos…
Postnationalist Pasts: The Case of Israel
Tensions in the “Jewish Democracy: The Constitutional Challenge of the Palestinian Citizens in Israel
The 14th of July of Daphni Leef: Class and social protest in Israel
Most of social sciences' research on Israel emphasizes ethnicity, status, nationality, identity, gender or coloniality as the central explanatory concepts. This article argues that in order to understand the emergence (as well as the limitations) of phenomena such as the 2011 social protest, the analysis must incorporate a class perspective. In answering questions such as which social groups initiated and supported the protest, what the socio-eco…
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel
Historiosophical foundations of the historical strife in Israel
Introduction: McWorld with and against Jihad
Citizens, Consumers and Believers: The Israeli Public Sphere between Capitalism and Fundamentalism
THE LAST NATION-WIDE ELECTORAL campaigns conducted in Israel within the framework of the 1996 elections for the Knesset and Prime Minister have demonstrated the substantial transformation that the Israeli political culture is undergoing recently. We shall argue that, beyond current political controversies and explicit political eventualities, there is a deep-rooted process of transformation in the very concept of what politics is about and how it…
Current Flow: The Electrification of Palestine
Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Civic discourse in Israeli sociological thought
Civic discourse in Israeli sociological thought
Israel: A democracy in peril
The Colonization Perspective in Israeli Sociology: Internal and External Comparisons
Though the characterization of Zionism as a colonial project is probably as old as the Zionist movement, as a specific scholarly sociological perspective in Israeli academia it was formulated only lately, in the wake of the Six Day War of 1967 This article outlines the contours of this new perspective, its theoretical assumptions and its political implications. It examines the historical circumstances which propelled its emergence, and than disce…
Sociologie et société en Israël
Changing Agenda of Israeli Sociology, The: Theory, Ideology, and Identity
Citizens, Consumers and Believers: The Israeli Public Sphere between Capitalism and Fundamentalism
THE LAST NATION-WIDE ELECTORAL campaigns conducted in Israel within the framework of the 1996 elections for the Knesset and Prime Minister have demonstrated the substantial transformation that the Israeli political culture is undergoing recently. We shall argue that, beyond current political controversies and explicit political eventualities, there is a deep-rooted process of transformation in the very concept of what politics is about and how it…
Postnationalist Pasts: The Case of Israel
Introduction: McWorld with and against Jihad
The State of the Nation: Contemporary Challenges to Zionism in Israel
National, Ethnic or Civic? Contesting Paradigms of Memory, Identity and Culture in Israel
Historiosophical foundations of the historical strife in Israel
Glocommodification: How the Global Consumes the Local - McDonald's in Israel
The global-local encounter has spawned a complex polemic between 'homogenizers' and 'heterogenizers'. Does globalization lead to universal cultural uniformity, or leave room for particularism and cultural diversity? This article proposes shifting the ground of the debate from the homogeneous-heterogeneous dichotomy to a structural-symbolic construct. It is argued here that while both homogenization and heterogenization occur, they do so at differ…
Nationalism and its Futures
Post-Zionist Studies of Israel - The First Decade
The present article focuses upon post-Zionism as an emergent counter-hegemonic discourse in contemporary Israel. Offered here are a broad analysis and survey of post-Zionism in the following order: (1) a review of the history of the concept post-Zionism' since its emergence in 1993, as well as a retrospective view of its sources; (2) an exposure of manifestations of post-Zionist culture in Israel; (3) an analysis of four different theories of pos…
Liquid identities: Mecca Cola versus Coca-Cola
The Mecca Cola drink combines in its brand name two contrasting iconic images: one signifies `authenticity', whereas the other signifies a `commodity'. The conspicuous juxtaposition of `Mecca' and `Cola' and their hyphenization evokes the question: what is becoming of `authenticity' in a thoroughly commodified world society? This article proposes that a distinction ought to be drawn between the effects of commodification on two distinct levels: t…
Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and the Bifurcation of Israel
Critical Studies of Ethnic Nationalism in Israel
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
The globalization of Israel: McWorld in Tel Aviv, jihad in Jerusalem
Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies. by Enrique Peruzzoti and Catalina Smulovitz
Why Secularism Fails? Secular Nationalism and Religious Revivalism in Israel
Introduction: The Culture of Conflict in Israel and Palestine
Tensions in the “Jewish Democracy: The Constitutional Challenge of the Palestinian Citizens in Israel
Ways of Forgetting: Israel and the Obliterated Memory of the Palestinian Nakba
This study analyses national ways of forgetting. Following the eminent British Anthropologists Mary Douglas, I relate here to "forgetting" as "selective remembering, misremembering and disremembering" (Douglas 2007: 13). The case study offered here is that of the Israeli-Jewish forgetting of the uprooting of the Palestinians in the war of 1948. This paper discusses three facets of the collective forgetting: Inthe first subchapterI analyze the fou…
Clash of Identities: Explorations in Israeli and Palestinian Societies
Israeli Nationalism: Social Conflicts and the Politics of Knowledge
The question of nationalism centres around the political, social, and cultural ways by which the concept and practice of a nation is constructed, and what it means to its various bearers. This book examines the issue of Jewish-Israeli nationalism, combining a sociological study of national culture with a detailed analysis of Israeli national discourse. Taking an interdisciplinary approach, the author explores the categories of thought that consti…
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