M Givoni
Biographic Data
| ID | 34733 |
|---|---|
| NAME | M Givoni |
| GIVEN NAMES | M |
| FAMILY NAME | Givoni |
| SIGNATURE | GIVONI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0063-0104 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 57 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Feeling and Falling at the End-Times: Rituals of impending collapse
What affective resources can performance offer for addressing a post-apocalyptic predicament, and how can it help explore modes of being and feeling beyond hope? This article engages with these questions by examining Simple Action, a participatory dance performance by Yasmeen Godder Dance Company (2016). Described by Godder as an ‘alternative contemporary ritual’, Simple Action is built around a single set of actions repeated throughout the work:…
Impact of Street Network Properties on Urban Pedestrian Movement Densities: Insights from Iraq
The Padma flower ornament, inspired by plants, was commonly found on religious buildings of Islamic, Catholic, and Protestant faiths.The Padma flower was popular during the precolonial and colonial periods in Indonesia, particularly on Java, where cultural, religious, and social diversity converge.The diversity of ornament visibly shown on the buildings represented expressions of life in various eras.This research explores the diversity of forms,…
Hope on the move: Israeli humanitarians between resilience and utopianism
The proliferation of voluntary and grassroots relief initiatives during the recent ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe brought renewed attention to the feelings, desires, and motivations that prompt aid workers and volunteers to engage in humanitarian actions. The article expands on this interest in ‘the need to help’ and in the care of the self that humanitarian engagements involve by looking at another layer of humanitarian affectivity – the need to hop…
The Nakba in a Livestream: Empathic Encounters and the Solidarity of Shared Precariousness
Since the summer of 2015, hundreds of Arab Palestinians from Israel have joined the massive number of volunteers who flocked to Greece and other locations in Europe to assist refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. Based on their stories about their experiences of volunteering, this essay examines how the affective regime of humanitarian action in crises mutates when such action is practiced by ordinary people who are living …
Indifference and repetition: Occupation testimonies and left-wing despair
As despair is increasingly seeping into leftist politics in many parts of the world, its long-held image as a hindrance to political activism still prevents the thriving literature on the politics of feeling from adequately theorizing this collective posture. This article seeks to probe the public manifestations of left-wing despair by looking at the despairing dispositions that have evolved in the Israeli Left in response to its failure to under…
Dividing crowds: In search of a worldly ethics for cosmopolitan publics
The Ethics of Witnessing and the Politics of the Governed
The Care of the Witness: A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises
During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the capacity to generate adequate testimonies based on this experience was repeatedly called into question. Michal Givoni's book follows the trail of the proble…
Between micro mappers and missing maps: Digital humanitarianism and the politics of material participation in disaster response
Crisis mapping is a new modality of participatory humanitarian action in which global publics are mobilized to trace digital maps of disaster-stricken sites and to classify, verify, and plot on maps Big Data produced by disaster-affected people. This article untangles the political rationalities behind this emergent form of digital humanitarianism by looking at two platforms that shape the self-organizing crowds in which crisis mapping is grounde…
The Ethics of Witnessing and the Politics of the Governed
During the 20th century, witnessing outgrew its original affiliations with legal evidence and religious belief and became a social vocation in its own right. This essay explores the ethical expertise with which witnessing has been infused as the witness became the deferred result of a process of subjective transformation by probing some of the meta-testimonial discourses that emerged in response to the Great War, the Holocaust, and Third World em…
Beyond the Humanitarian/Political Divide: Witnessing and the Making of Humanitarian Ethics
This essay examines how witnessing became encoded as an act of advocacy that may furnish a response to the plight of distant victims, and how it has impacted upon contemporary humanitarian ethics. By following the discourses and practices of witnessing elaborated by the French section of the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) since the late 1970s, the essay argues that witnessing helped transform a well-e…
Humanitarian Governance and Ethical Cultivation: Médecins sans Frontières and the Advent of the Expert-Witness
This article seeks to analyse contemporary humanitarianism as an advanced-liberal formation of global governance. It tracks the emergence in the 1970s of the French humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières and shows that its care for and control of distant victims has been commingled with and dependent upon care for Western selves. The article contends that humanitarianism ‘without borders’ was the outgrowth of the legitimacy crisis of …
The Ethics of Witnessing and the Politics of the Governed
During the 20th century, witnessing outgrew its original affiliations with legal evidence and religious belief and became a social vocation in its own right. This essay explores the ethical expertise with which witnessing has been infused as the witness became the deferred result of a process of subjective transformation by probing some of the meta-testimonial discourses that emerged in response to the Great War, the Holocaust, and Third World em…
Between micro mappers and missing maps: Digital humanitarianism and the politics of material participation in disaster response
Crisis mapping is a new modality of participatory humanitarian action in which global publics are mobilized to trace digital maps of disaster-stricken sites and to classify, verify, and plot on maps Big Data produced by disaster-affected people. This article untangles the political rationalities behind this emergent form of digital humanitarianism by looking at two platforms that shape the self-organizing crowds in which crisis mapping is grounde…
Beyond the Humanitarian/Political Divide: Witnessing and the Making of Humanitarian Ethics
This essay examines how witnessing became encoded as an act of advocacy that may furnish a response to the plight of distant victims, and how it has impacted upon contemporary humanitarian ethics. By following the discourses and practices of witnessing elaborated by the French section of the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) since the late 1970s, the essay argues that witnessing helped transform a well-e…
Humanitarian Governance and Ethical Cultivation: Médecins sans Frontières and the Advent of the Expert-Witness
This article seeks to analyse contemporary humanitarianism as an advanced-liberal formation of global governance. It tracks the emergence in the 1970s of the French humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières and shows that its care for and control of distant victims has been commingled with and dependent upon care for Western selves. The article contends that humanitarianism ‘without borders’ was the outgrowth of the legitimacy crisis of …
The Nakba in a Livestream: Empathic Encounters and the Solidarity of Shared Precariousness
Since the summer of 2015, hundreds of Arab Palestinians from Israel have joined the massive number of volunteers who flocked to Greece and other locations in Europe to assist refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. Based on their stories about their experiences of volunteering, this essay examines how the affective regime of humanitarian action in crises mutates when such action is practiced by ordinary people who are living …
Beyond the Humanitarian/Political Divide: Witnessing and the Making of Humanitarian Ethics
This essay examines how witnessing became encoded as an act of advocacy that may furnish a response to the plight of distant victims, and how it has impacted upon contemporary humanitarian ethics. By following the discourses and practices of witnessing elaborated by the French section of the humanitarian organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières) since the late 1970s, the essay argues that witnessing helped transform a well-e…
Humanitarian Governance and Ethical Cultivation: Médecins sans Frontières and the Advent of the Expert-Witness
This article seeks to analyse contemporary humanitarianism as an advanced-liberal formation of global governance. It tracks the emergence in the 1970s of the French humanitarian organisation Médecins sans Frontières and shows that its care for and control of distant victims has been commingled with and dependent upon care for Western selves. The article contends that humanitarianism ‘without borders’ was the outgrowth of the legitimacy crisis of …
The Ethics of Witnessing and the Politics of the Governed
During the 20th century, witnessing outgrew its original affiliations with legal evidence and religious belief and became a social vocation in its own right. This essay explores the ethical expertise with which witnessing has been infused as the witness became the deferred result of a process of subjective transformation by probing some of the meta-testimonial discourses that emerged in response to the Great War, the Holocaust, and Third World em…
The Ethics of Witnessing and the Politics of the Governed
The Care of the Witness: A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises
During the twentieth century, witnessing grew to be not just a widespread solution for coping with political atrocities but also an intricate problem. As the personal experience of victims, soldiers, and aid workers acquired unparalleled authority as a source of moral and political truth, the capacity to generate adequate testimonies based on this experience was repeatedly called into question. Michal Givoni's book follows the trail of the proble…
Between micro mappers and missing maps: Digital humanitarianism and the politics of material participation in disaster response
Crisis mapping is a new modality of participatory humanitarian action in which global publics are mobilized to trace digital maps of disaster-stricken sites and to classify, verify, and plot on maps Big Data produced by disaster-affected people. This article untangles the political rationalities behind this emergent form of digital humanitarianism by looking at two platforms that shape the self-organizing crowds in which crisis mapping is grounde…
Dividing crowds: In search of a worldly ethics for cosmopolitan publics
Indifference and repetition: Occupation testimonies and left-wing despair
As despair is increasingly seeping into leftist politics in many parts of the world, its long-held image as a hindrance to political activism still prevents the thriving literature on the politics of feeling from adequately theorizing this collective posture. This article seeks to probe the public manifestations of left-wing despair by looking at the despairing dispositions that have evolved in the Israeli Left in response to its failure to under…
The Nakba in a Livestream: Empathic Encounters and the Solidarity of Shared Precariousness
Since the summer of 2015, hundreds of Arab Palestinians from Israel have joined the massive number of volunteers who flocked to Greece and other locations in Europe to assist refugees from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan, and other countries. Based on their stories about their experiences of volunteering, this essay examines how the affective regime of humanitarian action in crises mutates when such action is practiced by ordinary people who are living …
Feeling and Falling at the End-Times: Rituals of impending collapse
What affective resources can performance offer for addressing a post-apocalyptic predicament, and how can it help explore modes of being and feeling beyond hope? This article engages with these questions by examining Simple Action, a participatory dance performance by Yasmeen Godder Dance Company (2016). Described by Godder as an ‘alternative contemporary ritual’, Simple Action is built around a single set of actions repeated throughout the work:…
Impact of Street Network Properties on Urban Pedestrian Movement Densities: Insights from Iraq
The Padma flower ornament, inspired by plants, was commonly found on religious buildings of Islamic, Catholic, and Protestant faiths.The Padma flower was popular during the precolonial and colonial periods in Indonesia, particularly on Java, where cultural, religious, and social diversity converge.The diversity of ornament visibly shown on the buildings represented expressions of life in various eras.This research explores the diversity of forms,…
Hope on the move: Israeli humanitarians between resilience and utopianism
The proliferation of voluntary and grassroots relief initiatives during the recent ‘refugee crisis’ in Europe brought renewed attention to the feelings, desires, and motivations that prompt aid workers and volunteers to engage in humanitarian actions. The article expands on this interest in ‘the need to help’ and in the care of the self that humanitarian engagements involve by looking at another layer of humanitarian affectivity – the need to hop…
Law (10 works) · Political science (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (5 works) · Migration, Refugees, and Integration (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Environmental ethics (3 works) · Foucault, Power, and Ethics (3 works) · Global Security and Public Health (3 works)