Tal Dekel
Biographic Data
| ID | 338457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tal Dekel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tal |
| FAMILY NAME | Dekel |
| SIGNATURE | DEKEL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8070-9076 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
In/visible aging women: Visualizing suspended femininity in institutional care through a dual-axis model
The Role of Public Policy in Gender Inequality in the Arts in Israel
This article deals with Israel's cultural policy and public funding for the arts—a nascent, under-developed research field in Israeli scholarship. The article focuses on the plastic arts and film, presenting data about the system of budget allocation and the structure of relevant Ministry of Culture and Sports decision-making committees. The discussion takes a gender perspective, focusing on obstacles women artists face in accessibility to public…
The Military-Urban Nexus: The political-economy of real-estate, development, and the military in Beer-Sheva metropolis
The paper explores the political-economy of militarization and urbanization in the development of Beer-Sheva metropolis, Israel. The region currently undergoes a wave of governmental and private investments, led by the relocation of army bases, military and cyber industries, and infrastructural development. The prevalent analysis relates this transformation to national-territorial goals. It is argued here that underlying these processes is the ne…
Black Masculinities and Jewish Identity: Ethiopian-Israeli Men in Contemporary Art
The identity of Jewish-Israeli men of Ethiopian descent has undergone deep-seated changes in the last decade, as evident in visual representations created by contemporary black artists living in Israel. In recent years, a new generation of Ethiopian-Israeli artists has revitalized local art and engendered deep changes in discourse and public life. Ethiopian-Israelis, who comprise less than two percent of the total Jewish population in the country…
Transparent Substance in a Transnational Existence: Materiality, Migration, Memory, and Gender—The Case of Israeli Artist Alina Rom Cohen
This article discusses the art of Alina Rome Cohen, a woman artist from the former Soviet Union who immigrated to Israel. Her glass sculptures highlight her hyphenated, multilayered, and dynamic identity, illustrating identity construction processes of migrant women under conditions of uprooting and re-grounding in the globalized era of transnationalism. The discussion feeds from theories influenced by “the material turn”, suggesting that artifac…
Critique and Progress: Production of Knowledge and the Planning of Bedouin Settlements in Israel
The paper contributes to a critique of Israeli Critical Planning Studies (CPS). Critical scholars conceptualize Israeli planning as colonial, aspiring to dispossess Bedouin indigenous people without implementing participation or considering cultural needs. By studying current plans and interviewing planners and senior officials, the paper shows that planning has progressed dramatically during recent decades. The article continues with positioning…
Spatial and organizational aspects of anti-eviction strategies
Informal urbanization is inherently tied to threats of eviction. This article contributes to the expanding study of evictions by depicting and framing anti-eviction strategies taken by informal inhabitants in two interrelated evolving aspects: collective organization and production of space. The former is analysed as a gradual weaving of social–political connections, starting from the community level and maturing into a trans-local network of con…
The institutional perspective on informal housing
Mobilization against “agricultural terrorism” and the political-economy of agriculture in Israel
Formalizing infrastructures, civic networks and production of space: Bedouin informal settlements in Be'er-Sheva metropolis
In Search of Transnational Jewish Art: Immigrant Women Artists from The Former Soviet Union in Contemporary Israel
The article explores the subject of contemporary Jewish identity through the case of young immigrant women artists from the former Soviet Union in Israel, with particular emphasis on an analysis of the gendered aspects of their religious identity. Drawing on an interdisciplinary method, the research is based on in-depth interviews with artists, artwork analysis, and various theories from the social sciences and humanities. The article's main argu…
Welcome Home: Israeli-Ethiopian Women Artists and Questions of Citizenship and Belonging
This article examines the case of Jewish women immigrants from Ethiopia and their sense of belonging to the state of Israel and Israeli society. By focusing the discussion on the concept of home within the ideologies of nationhood and citizenship, it analyses artistic products of women that express their active participation in the production of meaning of the notion ‘to belong to a homeland’. Arguing that the artists present a multi-faceted atti…
Subversive Uses of Perception: The Case of Palestinian Artist Anisa Ashkar
This article examines the ways in which Palestinian artist Anisa Ashkar relates to the subject of perception, as she employs the “minor” senses of smell and touch in order to undermine socially constructed categories. Using materials such as margarine, flour, sugar, milk, and black coffee—culturally considered feminine and domestic—she transgresses their normative usage in order to demonstrate her intersected, complex position as a woman and a da…
Feminist Art Hitting the Shores of Israel: Three Case Studies in Impossible Times
Tal Dekel, Feminist Art Hitting the Shores of Israel: Three Case Studies in Impossible Times, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, Special Issue: Feminist Art and Social Movements: Beyond NY/LA (2012), pp. 111-128
Body, Gender and Transnationalism: Art and Cultural Criticism in a Changing Europe
The term transnationalism, dealing with all facets of immigration – refugees, foreign workers, illegal layovers and migrants from one country to another – has been one of the prominent topics on the public and political agenda of most Western countries in recent years. Through analysing several visual works, this article seeks to draw out the influence of economic, political and cultural changes upon a range of female artists in post‐communist co…
The institutional perspective on informal housing
Formalizing infrastructures, civic networks and production of space: Bedouin informal settlements in Be'er-Sheva metropolis
Spatial and organizational aspects of anti-eviction strategies
Informal urbanization is inherently tied to threats of eviction. This article contributes to the expanding study of evictions by depicting and framing anti-eviction strategies taken by informal inhabitants in two interrelated evolving aspects: collective organization and production of space. The former is analysed as a gradual weaving of social–political connections, starting from the community level and maturing into a trans-local network of con…
The Military-Urban Nexus: The political-economy of real-estate, development, and the military in Beer-Sheva metropolis
The paper explores the political-economy of militarization and urbanization in the development of Beer-Sheva metropolis, Israel. The region currently undergoes a wave of governmental and private investments, led by the relocation of army bases, military and cyber industries, and infrastructural development. The prevalent analysis relates this transformation to national-territorial goals. It is argued here that underlying these processes is the ne…
Subversive Uses of Perception: The Case of Palestinian Artist Anisa Ashkar
This article examines the ways in which Palestinian artist Anisa Ashkar relates to the subject of perception, as she employs the “minor” senses of smell and touch in order to undermine socially constructed categories. Using materials such as margarine, flour, sugar, milk, and black coffee—culturally considered feminine and domestic—she transgresses their normative usage in order to demonstrate her intersected, complex position as a woman and a da…
Mobilization against “agricultural terrorism” and the political-economy of agriculture in Israel
Welcome Home: Israeli-Ethiopian Women Artists and Questions of Citizenship and Belonging
This article examines the case of Jewish women immigrants from Ethiopia and their sense of belonging to the state of Israel and Israeli society. By focusing the discussion on the concept of home within the ideologies of nationhood and citizenship, it analyses artistic products of women that express their active participation in the production of meaning of the notion ‘to belong to a homeland’. Arguing that the artists present a multi-faceted atti…
Body, Gender and Transnationalism: Art and Cultural Criticism in a Changing Europe
The term transnationalism, dealing with all facets of immigration – refugees, foreign workers, illegal layovers and migrants from one country to another – has been one of the prominent topics on the public and political agenda of most Western countries in recent years. Through analysing several visual works, this article seeks to draw out the influence of economic, political and cultural changes upon a range of female artists in post‐communist co…
Feminist Art Hitting the Shores of Israel: Three Case Studies in Impossible Times
Tal Dekel, Feminist Art Hitting the Shores of Israel: Three Case Studies in Impossible Times, Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies, Vol. 33, No. 2, Special Issue: Feminist Art and Social Movements: Beyond NY/LA (2012), pp. 111-128
Welcome Home: Israeli-Ethiopian Women Artists and Questions of Citizenship and Belonging
This article examines the case of Jewish women immigrants from Ethiopia and their sense of belonging to the state of Israel and Israeli society. By focusing the discussion on the concept of home within the ideologies of nationhood and citizenship, it analyses artistic products of women that express their active participation in the production of meaning of the notion ‘to belong to a homeland’. Arguing that the artists present a multi-faceted atti…
Subversive Uses of Perception: The Case of Palestinian Artist Anisa Ashkar
This article examines the ways in which Palestinian artist Anisa Ashkar relates to the subject of perception, as she employs the “minor” senses of smell and touch in order to undermine socially constructed categories. Using materials such as margarine, flour, sugar, milk, and black coffee—culturally considered feminine and domestic—she transgresses their normative usage in order to demonstrate her intersected, complex position as a woman and a da…
In Search of Transnational Jewish Art: Immigrant Women Artists from The Former Soviet Union in Contemporary Israel
The article explores the subject of contemporary Jewish identity through the case of young immigrant women artists from the former Soviet Union in Israel, with particular emphasis on an analysis of the gendered aspects of their religious identity. Drawing on an interdisciplinary method, the research is based on in-depth interviews with artists, artwork analysis, and various theories from the social sciences and humanities. The article's main argu…
Mobilization against “agricultural terrorism” and the political-economy of agriculture in Israel
Formalizing infrastructures, civic networks and production of space: Bedouin informal settlements in Be'er-Sheva metropolis
Spatial and organizational aspects of anti-eviction strategies
Informal urbanization is inherently tied to threats of eviction. This article contributes to the expanding study of evictions by depicting and framing anti-eviction strategies taken by informal inhabitants in two interrelated evolving aspects: collective organization and production of space. The former is analysed as a gradual weaving of social–political connections, starting from the community level and maturing into a trans-local network of con…
The institutional perspective on informal housing
Transparent Substance in a Transnational Existence: Materiality, Migration, Memory, and Gender—The Case of Israeli Artist Alina Rom Cohen
This article discusses the art of Alina Rome Cohen, a woman artist from the former Soviet Union who immigrated to Israel. Her glass sculptures highlight her hyphenated, multilayered, and dynamic identity, illustrating identity construction processes of migrant women under conditions of uprooting and re-grounding in the globalized era of transnationalism. The discussion feeds from theories influenced by “the material turn”, suggesting that artifac…
Critique and Progress: Production of Knowledge and the Planning of Bedouin Settlements in Israel
The paper contributes to a critique of Israeli Critical Planning Studies (CPS). Critical scholars conceptualize Israeli planning as colonial, aspiring to dispossess Bedouin indigenous people without implementing participation or considering cultural needs. By studying current plans and interviewing planners and senior officials, the paper shows that planning has progressed dramatically during recent decades. The article continues with positioning…
Black Masculinities and Jewish Identity: Ethiopian-Israeli Men in Contemporary Art
The identity of Jewish-Israeli men of Ethiopian descent has undergone deep-seated changes in the last decade, as evident in visual representations created by contemporary black artists living in Israel. In recent years, a new generation of Ethiopian-Israeli artists has revitalized local art and engendered deep changes in discourse and public life. Ethiopian-Israelis, who comprise less than two percent of the total Jewish population in the country…
The Role of Public Policy in Gender Inequality in the Arts in Israel
This article deals with Israel's cultural policy and public funding for the arts—a nascent, under-developed research field in Israeli scholarship. The article focuses on the plastic arts and film, presenting data about the system of budget allocation and the structure of relevant Ministry of Culture and Sports decision-making committees. The discussion takes a gender perspective, focusing on obstacles women artists face in accessibility to public…
The Military-Urban Nexus: The political-economy of real-estate, development, and the military in Beer-Sheva metropolis
The paper explores the political-economy of militarization and urbanization in the development of Beer-Sheva metropolis, Israel. The region currently undergoes a wave of governmental and private investments, led by the relocation of army bases, military and cyber industries, and infrastructural development. The prevalent analysis relates this transformation to national-territorial goals. It is argued here that underlying these processes is the ne…
In/visible aging women: Visualizing suspended femininity in institutional care through a dual-axis model
Political science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Politics (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (9 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Art (5 works) · Economics (5 works)