Yifat Gutman
Biographic Data
| ID | 290005 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yifat Gutman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yifat |
| FAMILY NAME | Gutman |
| SIGNATURE | GUTMAN Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4742-6004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 74 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Power of fiction and a shared framework in confronting contested pasts
Artistic memorial interventions that raise the question ‘what if?’ – what life in the present would look like had past events unfolded differently – can be understood in light of the concept ‘as if’ in Jeffrey Goldfarb’s Politics of Small Things. ‘As if’ constitutes a shared framework for public debate that enables a more equal voice to participants with different identities and social positions who meet ‘as if’ they were equal. In cases of confl…
Israel and Poland Confront Holocaust Memory
Reconciling Theory and Practice: Confronting Violent Histories in Poland and Israel-Palestine
The role of violent histories and their legacies in reconciliation processes has been a central question in debates on reconciliation and nation building after conflict: whether, how, and when painful events should be remembered in post-conflict and post-transition societies. A dominant approach to this question since the 1980s has been the 'reconciliation paradigm,' which views addressing violent histories as condition for reconciliation. A comp…
Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism
Israeli Memory: From a Moment of Retrospection to Regulating the Past
Israeli memory never ceased to be ethno-national, featuring a Zionist ideology and mythical trajectory that leads from the biblical homeland to the resettlement of the Jewish people under a Jewish
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists
Memory activists have recently received more scholarly and public attention, but the concept lacks conceptual clarity. In this article, we articulate an analytical framework for studying memory activists, proposing a relatively narrow definition: “Memory activists” strategically commemorate the past to challenge (or protect) dominant views on the past and the institutions that represent them. Their goal is mnemonic change or to resist change. We …
Balancing Atrocities and Forced Forgetting: Memory Laws as a Means of Social Control in Israel
This article examines memory laws as a new form of social control, demonstrating the significance of cultural memory to law and society scholarship. It focuses on two Israeli laws that seek to control public debate by giving voice to one marginalized group in order to silence another. The article presents two forms of such utilization of the law: forced forgetting and the balancing of atrocities. Forced forgetting validates the memory of one grou…
On media, memory and laws: The Israeli ‘Law Commemorating the Exile of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran’ (2014) as a case study
This study joins the ongoing, yet marginalized, scholarly attempt to connect between law, memory and the media. We focus on a unique memory law: the ‘Law Commemorating the Exile of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran’ enacted in the Israeli parliament in 2014. The law aims to make official a long-silenced memory of the dispossession and suffering inflicted on Jewish residents of major Arab states and of Iran by local authorities as a reaction to th…
Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine
Looking backward to the future: Counter-memory as oppositional knowledge-production in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
This article examines a strategy of peace activism that gained visibility in the last decades: memory activism. Memory activists manifest a temporal shift in transnational politics: first the past, then the future. Affiliated with the globally-circulating paradigm of historical justice, memory activist groups assume that a new understanding of the past could lead to a new perception of present problems and project alternative solutions for the fu…
Memory Laws: An Escalation in Minority Exclusion or a Testimony to the Limits of State Power
The article addresses the tension between nation-state memory and the law through "memory laws." In contrast to laws that ban genocide denial or a positive perception of a violent past, I focus on laws that ban a negative perception of a violent past. As I will show, these laws were utilized for a non-democratic purpose in the last decade or more: They were proposed in order to limit public debate on the national past by banning oppositional or m…
Transcultural Memory in Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Truth and Reconciliation
Memory and the Future
For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this
Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society
The resounding echoes of memory in terrorism and political aggression
Introduction: Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Studies Possible
Where do we go from here: The pasts, presents and futures of Ground Zero
Spring 2006, when the rebuilding of Ground Zero began, was a unique moment in time — a turning point for the New York site and its publics. It signified transformation from debris to a memorial museum; a move from past catastrophe to future memories, as the nationalized narration of the events in the formal exhibit on site emphasized. Surprisingly, while the end result was already known, this moment of transformation allowed different audiences t…
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists
Memory activists have recently received more scholarly and public attention, but the concept lacks conceptual clarity. In this article, we articulate an analytical framework for studying memory activists, proposing a relatively narrow definition: “Memory activists” strategically commemorate the past to challenge (or protect) dominant views on the past and the institutions that represent them. Their goal is mnemonic change or to resist change. We …
Looking backward to the future: Counter-memory as oppositional knowledge-production in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
This article examines a strategy of peace activism that gained visibility in the last decades: memory activism. Memory activists manifest a temporal shift in transnational politics: first the past, then the future. Affiliated with the globally-circulating paradigm of historical justice, memory activist groups assume that a new understanding of the past could lead to a new perception of present problems and project alternative solutions for the fu…
Memory Laws: An Escalation in Minority Exclusion or a Testimony to the Limits of State Power
The article addresses the tension between nation-state memory and the law through "memory laws." In contrast to laws that ban genocide denial or a positive perception of a violent past, I focus on laws that ban a negative perception of a violent past. As I will show, these laws were utilized for a non-democratic purpose in the last decade or more: They were proposed in order to limit public debate on the national past by banning oppositional or m…
Balancing Atrocities and Forced Forgetting: Memory Laws as a Means of Social Control in Israel
This article examines memory laws as a new form of social control, demonstrating the significance of cultural memory to law and society scholarship. It focuses on two Israeli laws that seek to control public debate by giving voice to one marginalized group in order to silence another. The article presents two forms of such utilization of the law: forced forgetting and the balancing of atrocities. Forced forgetting validates the memory of one grou…
Transcultural Memory in Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Truth and Reconciliation
Where do we go from here: The pasts, presents and futures of Ground Zero
Spring 2006, when the rebuilding of Ground Zero began, was a unique moment in time — a turning point for the New York site and its publics. It signified transformation from debris to a memorial museum; a move from past catastrophe to future memories, as the nationalized narration of the events in the formal exhibit on site emphasized. Surprisingly, while the end result was already known, this moment of transformation allowed different audiences t…
Introduction: Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Studies Possible
Where do we go from here: The pasts, presents and futures of Ground Zero
Spring 2006, when the rebuilding of Ground Zero began, was a unique moment in time — a turning point for the New York site and its publics. It signified transformation from debris to a memorial museum; a move from past catastrophe to future memories, as the nationalized narration of the events in the formal exhibit on site emphasized. Surprisingly, while the end result was already known, this moment of transformation allowed different audiences t…
Introduction: Is an Interdisciplinary Field of Memory Studies Possible
Memory and the Future
For those who study memory, there is a nagging concern that memory studies are inherently backward-looking, and that memory itself hinders efforts to move forward. Unhinging memory from the past, this
Memory and the Future: Transnational Politics, Ethics and Society
The resounding echoes of memory in terrorism and political aggression
Transcultural Memory in Conflict: Israeli-Palestinian Truth and Reconciliation
Memory Laws: An Escalation in Minority Exclusion or a Testimony to the Limits of State Power
The article addresses the tension between nation-state memory and the law through "memory laws." In contrast to laws that ban genocide denial or a positive perception of a violent past, I focus on laws that ban a negative perception of a violent past. As I will show, these laws were utilized for a non-democratic purpose in the last decade or more: They were proposed in order to limit public debate on the national past by banning oppositional or m…
Memory Activism: Reimagining the Past for the Future in Israel-Palestine
Looking backward to the future: Counter-memory as oppositional knowledge-production in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict
This article examines a strategy of peace activism that gained visibility in the last decades: memory activism. Memory activists manifest a temporal shift in transnational politics: first the past, then the future. Affiliated with the globally-circulating paradigm of historical justice, memory activist groups assume that a new understanding of the past could lead to a new perception of present problems and project alternative solutions for the fu…
On media, memory and laws: The Israeli ‘Law Commemorating the Exile of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran’ (2014) as a case study
This study joins the ongoing, yet marginalized, scholarly attempt to connect between law, memory and the media. We focus on a unique memory law: the ‘Law Commemorating the Exile of Jews from Arab Countries and Iran’ enacted in the Israeli parliament in 2014. The law aims to make official a long-silenced memory of the dispossession and suffering inflicted on Jewish residents of major Arab states and of Iran by local authorities as a reaction to th…
Challenging the meaning of the past from below: A typology for comparative research on memory activists
Memory activists have recently received more scholarly and public attention, but the concept lacks conceptual clarity. In this article, we articulate an analytical framework for studying memory activists, proposing a relatively narrow definition: “Memory activists” strategically commemorate the past to challenge (or protect) dominant views on the past and the institutions that represent them. Their goal is mnemonic change or to resist change. We …
Balancing Atrocities and Forced Forgetting: Memory Laws as a Means of Social Control in Israel
This article examines memory laws as a new form of social control, demonstrating the significance of cultural memory to law and society scholarship. It focuses on two Israeli laws that seek to control public debate by giving voice to one marginalized group in order to silence another. The article presents two forms of such utilization of the law: forced forgetting and the balancing of atrocities. Forced forgetting validates the memory of one grou…
Routledge Handbook of Memory Activism
Israeli Memory: From a Moment of Retrospection to Regulating the Past
Israeli memory never ceased to be ethno-national, featuring a Zionist ideology and mythical trajectory that leads from the biblical homeland to the resettlement of the Jewish people under a Jewish
Israel and Poland Confront Holocaust Memory
Reconciling Theory and Practice: Confronting Violent Histories in Poland and Israel-Palestine
The role of violent histories and their legacies in reconciliation processes has been a central question in debates on reconciliation and nation building after conflict: whether, how, and when painful events should be remembered in post-conflict and post-transition societies. A dominant approach to this question since the 1980s has been the 'reconciliation paradigm,' which views addressing violent histories as condition for reconciliation. A comp…
The Power of fiction and a shared framework in confronting contested pasts
Artistic memorial interventions that raise the question ‘what if?’ – what life in the present would look like had past events unfolded differently – can be understood in light of the concept ‘as if’ in Jeffrey Goldfarb’s Politics of Small Things. ‘As if’ constitutes a shared framework for public debate that enables a more equal voice to participants with different identities and social positions who meet ‘as if’ they were equal. In cases of confl…
Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration (14 works) · Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Psychology (9 works) · History (8 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (8 works) · Law (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works)