Erik H Cohen

Biographic Data

ID3684869
NAMEErik H Cohen
GIVEN NAMESErik H
FAMILY NAMECohen
SIGNATURECOHEN E H
AFFILIATIONSBar-Ilan University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS45
TOTAL CITATIONS295
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1968
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2020
H-INDEX7

  • Surviving the NDH

    Erik H CohenARTICLEJournal of Autoethnography2020

    This autoethnography is an account of the survival of a Mischling (half-Jew) of the genocidal NDH (Independent State of Croatia) Ustasha regime, against the background of the persecution of Jews during the Second World War. It dwells upon the collapse of a young Jew’s world with the German occupation and the creation of that regime, his religious conversion, and his and his family’s precarious daily life under the latent existential threat posed …

  • Spirit mediumship and the state in mainland Southeast Asia: A comparative perspective

    Open AccessErik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLEJournal of Southeast Asian Studies2020References: 32

    This comparative study examines the complex, changing configurations of the relationships between the state and mediumship cults, under different regimes and histories in three Southeast Asian states and China. Spirit mediums are endowed with charismatic authority, owing to their access to the supernatural sphere, which stands in implicit tension with the authority of the state. This tension underlies state–mediumship relationships in Southeast A…

  • Sociocultural Change in Thailand: A Reconceptualization

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenCHAPTERComparative Social Dynamics2019

    A society may thus be perceived one way or another, depending on which of the features of the multi-stable image projected by that society one chooses to fixate and hinge one&s;s interpretation upon. In the particular case of Thailand this becomes a crucial issue, owing to the contradictory nature of the cultural codes informing its social structure. The controversy surrounding the structure and change of Thai society can thus be seen as largely …

  • Identity and Pedagogy: Shoah Education in Israeli State Schools

    Erik H CohenBOOKIdentity and Pedagogy2019

    This pedagogical and sociological analysis of Shoah education in Israeli state schools is based on an empirical survey conducted from 2007–2009 among junior high school and high school students, teachers and principals in general and religious schools, and experts in the field. It explores issues such as materials and methods, beliefs and attitudes, messages imparted, pedagogical challenges, and implications for national and religious identity an…

  • Human-initiated animal fights

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenCHAPTERDomestic Animals, Humans, and…2018

    This chapter introduces the concept of human-initiated animal fights, and presents four case studies of such fights between pairs of animals of the same species: dog-to-dog, camel-to-camel, buffalo-to-buffalo and cock-to-cock. It examines the basic common traits of those fights and their historical decline from a high-class entertainment to a preoccupation of lower class or marginal groups, in which the animals serve as surrogates for their owner…

  • “Mobile Cultures” as Leisure Pursuits and Tourist Attractions: Gauchos, Cowboys, and Indians

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLETourism Culture & Communication2015

    This comparative study combines conceptual approaches of the mobilities paradigm and postcolonial theory, with the notion of identity politics, in the analysis of two “mobile cultures”: the gauchos of the South American pampas and the cowboys and Indians of the American West. It examines the permutations that the representations of these myths underwent, as they “traveled” from their remote origins to national centers, and to ever further destina…

  • Heritage Tourism in Thai Urban Communities

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLETourism Culture & Communication2014

    This article seeks to deflect the discourse on the built heritage from the conventional definitional and methodological issues to the more political question of who has the power or authority to authenticate it. Deploying Cohen and Cohen's distinction between two modes of authentication—hot and cool—it inquires which of these modes was dominant in the authentication of the built heritage of three small towns in Thailand, and how each influenced t…

  • Structural Analysis of the Abridged Big Five Circumplex: A Comparison among Gender and Ethnic Groups

    Open AccessErik H Cohen, Jacqueline K DeulingARTICLEBulletin of Sociological…2014References: 2

    This study explores the structure of the Big Five personality traits and the relationship of ethnicity and gender to this structure. Data from a previously published study on gender, ethnicity and the Abridged Big Five Circumplex are reanalyzed using Similarity Structure Analysis (SSA). 1 This revealed a radex structure in which the pure five factor markers are arranged in a polar configuration, with Agreeableness placed opposite Neuroticism and …

  • Tourism Encroachment on Reserved Forest Areas: A Case Study from Thailand

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLETourism Recreation Research2014Cited by: 1References: 22

    In contrast to the more spectacular ‘land grabs’ for tourism development, the smaller-scale, progressive encroachment by tourist establishments into protected environments has attracted little attention in the literature. This article seeks to highlight the issue by a case study of the Thai authorities' crackdown on resorts and second homes encroaching upon protected forests in a national park area in Thailand. The study shows how the apparently …

  • Bullfighting and Tourism

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLETourism Analysis2014Cited by: 5References: 9

    Bullfighting is introduced into tourism studies as the iconic example of a class of human–animal relations, involving agonistic animal contests initiated by humans. The article focuses on the most popular form of bullfighting, the corrida , at which a matador, fighting on foot (rather than mounted) kills a bull in an arena in the presence of a mixed domestic and sometimes foreign public. It discusses the polysemic perceptions of the bullfight, it…

  • Recreational Hunting: Ethics, Experiences and Commoditization

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLETourism Recreation Research2014Cited by: 17References: 16

    Starting with the paradox that hunters claim to love the animal species they hunt, this article examines three inter-related issues: the ethics of hunting, the hunting experience and the commoditization of hunting in the contemporary world. I discuss two contrary philosophical approaches to hunting in general, and then turn to the specific problem of the ethics of recreational hunting, arguing that its protagonists fail to render a consistent jus…

  • Authentication: Hot and cool

    Open AccessErik Cohen, Erik H Cohen et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2012Cited by: 137References: 19

  • Matrix Assisted Structural Hypothesis Construction

    Open AccessErik H Cohen, Charles TresserARTICLEBulletin of Sociological…2011References: 8

    This paper outlines a novel process for designing a structural hypothesis. Relevant factors in a study are identified and micro-hypotheses are enunciated in a matrix format. Levels of similarity are assigned to each pair of factors. Multi-dimensional scaling techniques are used to graphically portray the matrix. The example of ‘‘Quality of Life’’ (QoL) is used to illustrate the proposed matrix approach to generate a structural hypothesis. A Small…

  • Matrix Assisted Structural Hypothesis Construction: Further Explorations

    Open AccessErik H Cohen, Charles TresserARTICLEBulletin of Sociological…2011References: 7

    Construction d’hypothèse structurale par matrice — Explorations complémentaires : En janvier 2011 (numéro 109), le BMS a publié notre article sur un nouveau processus pour l’élaboration d’une hypothèse structurale en utilisant une approche matricielle et des techniques multi-dimensionnelles d’analyse de données (Cohen et Tresser, 2011). La présente note continue à développer la méthode matricielle de construction d’hypothèse (méthode matricielle …

  • Educational dark tourism at an in populo site

    Open AccessErik H CohenARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2011Cited by: 32References: 34

  • Tourism, Leisure and Authenticity

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLETourism Recreation Research2010Cited by: 5References: 24

    This article advocates the introduction of the discourse of ‘authenticity’ into the study of (non-travel) everyday leisure. It poses the question of whether everyday leisure offers opportunities for experiences of subjective, particularly existential, authenticity, resembling those found in tourism. Its wider aim is to open a window towards the unification of the study of experience in tourism and leisure. The two fields of enquiry departed histo…

  • Towards an Ethics of Responsibility in Tourism Education

    Erik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLETourism Recreation Research2010

    (2010). Towards an Ethics of Responsibility in Tourism Education. Tourism Recreation Research: Vol. 35, No. 3, pp. 302-303

  • Impact of the Group of Co-migrants on Strategies of Acculturation: Towards an Expansion of the Berry Model

    Open AccessErik H CohenARTICLEInternational Migration2010Cited by: 12References: 18

    This article proposes expanding Berry’s theory of acculturation strategies into a three-fold model to be applied to the case of acculturation among migrants. The expanded model includes the community of co-migrants as a distinct referent. It addresses the dynamic and multi-directional relationship between the three referents and the individual migrant, which all interact to create the experience of acculturation among migrants. An expanded typolo…

  • Particularistic Education, Endogamy, and Educational Tourism to Homeland: An Exploratory Multi-dimensional Analysis of Jewish Diaspora Social Indicators

    Open AccessErik H CohenARTICLEContemporary Jewry2009

  • Axiological Typology in an International Religious Youth Organization: The Case of Bnei Akiva

    Open AccessErik H CohenARTICLECurrent Sociology2009References: 30

    This study examines the value structure of members of a religious youth movement that has chapters around the world. A preliminary typology of values is developed based on an empirical case study of the international Jewish youth movement, Bnei Akiva. Using multidimensional tools, a structure of the values held by respondents is portrayed. Differences in emphases and relationship to the structure of values by 13 national subpopulations are compar…

  • Political Protest and Power Distance: Towards a Typology of Political Participation

    Open AccessErik H Cohen, José Francisco Hinestroza Valencia et al.ARTICLEBulletin of Sociological…2008Cited by: 1References: 16

    Protestation politique et distance de pouvoir - Vers une typologie de la participation politique : L'analyse des données de protestation politique collectées par la « World Values Survey » produit une typologie de la participation politique non-institutionalisée. La « Smallest Space Analysis" (SSA) des variables de protestation politique produit une sructure claire à une dimension allant du moins impiqué et moins exigeant des activités, au plus i…

  • Symbols of Diaspora Jewish identity: An international survey and multi-dimensional analysis

    Erik H CohenARTICLEReligion2008References: 37

    Symbols are important in representing religious and ethnic identity, particularly in the postmodern age. Using a case study of Jewish adolescents, this article explores the use of symbols in expressing identity. A structural typology of symbols is developed, based on responses to a list of 20 symbols of Jewish identity by over 40,000 Jewish youth from around the world, who were surveyed during educational tours to Israel. The multi-dimensional sm…

  • The Changing Faces of Contemporary Tourism

    Open AccessErik Cohen, Erik H CohenARTICLESociety2008Cited by: 6

  • Researching Informal Education: A Preliminary Mapping

    Open AccessErik H CohenARTICLEBulletin of Sociological…2007Cited by: 1References: 5

    Recherche sur l'éducation informelle, une cartographie préliminaire : L'analyse factorielle des correspondances et l'analyse du plus petit espace sont appliquées à un ensemble original de données sur l'éducation informelle. En dépit de son étendue, de son histoire et de son importance croissante dans l'ère post-moderne, peu de travail théorique ou de recherche cumulative existent sur l'éducation informelle. Des techniques multidimensionnelles d'a…

  • Student evaluations of course and teacher: Factor analysis and SSA approaches

    Erik H CohenARTICLEAssessment & Evaluation in Higher…2005

    The present study attempts to discover organizing principles in college students’ evaluations of their formal and informal educational programs. The study was conducted during the 1998–99 academic year. The data consisted of 14,344 assessment sheets completed by students at the Jordan Valley Regional College in Israel. Each assessment sheet contained 12 variables. Factor analysis revealed two main factors: the course (seven variables) and the tea…