Yoni Garb
Biographic Data
| ID | 369457 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yoni Garb |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yoni |
| FAMILY NAME | Garb |
| SIGNATURE | GARB Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6008-9882 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 60 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Flowing toxics
We draw on several emerging literatures on contamination and waste and our own fieldwork on e-waste contamination in a Palestinian-Israeli border space to describe a “flowing” approach to toxic phenomena. We use this term as a shorthand to underscore the particular complexities of the socio-material-biological node called “toxics,” and the corresponding epistemic, methodological, and moral demands of studying them. Some episodes from typical days…
Hub-driven policy packages as a basis for e-waste reform
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principles have emerged as the template for e-waste policies, centered on establishing regulated collection and recycling channels. Originating in the global North, these policies are increasingly adopted in the global South where e-waste is primarily ‘managed’ by the informal sector, centered in spatially defined hubs. These formal systems fail to achieve collection quotas, while further marginalizing infor…
The political role of date palm trees in the Jordan Valley
In the West Bank, date palm trees have been sweeping over the Jordan Valley at an accelerating rate since the 2000s. The current scientific literature has depicted this transformation as sustainable development. This article proposes a method to harness social sciences in a meaningful manner within the interdisciplinary study of agricultural transformation. Focusing on appropriation rather than bundles of rights, within an exploration of water an…
Quantifying flows and economies of informal e-waste hubs
Despite increasing academic attention and the pressing development and environmental importance of informal e-waste economies in the global South, there remains a dearth of reliable quantitative data to guide theory and appropriate policy responses. We illustrate this problem through a review of the thin and patchy data presented in existing studies that attempt to quantify the flows and economic impact of informal e-waste hubs. We then describe …
Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case
Extended producer responsibility policies and interventions propose a template for electronic waste management with considerable and growing discursive and policy traction worldwide. Originating in the global North, they increasingly implicate countries and sites in the global South, in particular, people working in informal electronic waste hubs that process Northern electronic waste. This paper examines the implications of extended producer res…
Beyond the pollution haven hypothesis
Cycles des déchets et valorisation
Ce reportage photo indique et illustre les dynamiques et les impacts d'une industrie palestinienne informelle de ramassage et de traitement de la majeure partie des déchets électroniques (« e-déchets ») israéliens, en place depuis plus une dizaine d'années. S'appuyant sur des observations détaillées sur le terrain réalisées durant ces quatre dernières années, comprenant plus de 300 entretiens approfondis semi-directifs auprès d'une variété d'acte…
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Scenarios in society, society in scenarios
Scenario analysis, an approach to thinking about alternative futures based on storyline-driven modeling, has become increasingly common and important in attempts to understand and respond to the impacts of human activities on natural systems at a variety of scales. The construction of scenarios is a fundamentally social activity, yet social scientific perspectives have rarely been brought to bear on it. Indeed, there is a growing imbalance betwee…
Where next with global environmental scenarios
Scenarios have become a standard tool in the portfolio of techniques that scientists and policy-makers use to envision and plan for the future. Defined as plausible, challenging and relevant stories about how the future might unfold that integrate quantitative models with qualitative assessments of social and political trends, scenarios are a central component in assessment processes for a range of global issues, including climate change, biodive…
Terror, Barriers, and the Changing Topography of Jerusalem
This article deals with the impact of urban terror and the construction of a peripheral barrier around Jerusalem. We are interested in an atypical set of conditions, or what might be called punctuated change, characterized by (1) an extremely shortened or telescoped time span; (2) the presence of an abrupt crisis that threatens to seriously harm, negatively transform, or even destroy a social order; (3) a volatile environment in which response is…
Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway's Inevitability
OVERVIEW HIS ESSAY DISCUSSES THE CREATION of a sense of inevitability as a key dimension in furthering a major infrastructure project, the Trans-Israel Highway.1 I illustrate some of the rhetorical and political moves that helped achieve this inevitability. While important in itself as an elucidation of an infrastructure project declared to be the country's largest ever, the lessons of this analysis extend beyond this project and the Israeli cont…
The Experience of Religious Fortification
While in normative Judaism the category of female adolescence was virtually nonexistent, religious Zionist educational authorities in modern Israel have had to produce their own model of female adolescence and women's socialisation. Probing the accounts of 37 17 year-old religious Zionist female adolescents educated in a single-sex boarding school, we show that the young women experience adolescence as an intense period of religious fortification…
Paths of Power Mysticism
Religious Socialization and Female Subjectivity
Les AA. examinent le lien entre sentiment religieux, sexe et subjectivite dans un cadre educatif religieux sioniste en Israel a partir d'une enquete menee dans un etablissement d'enseignement superieur. Ce cadre educatif doit faire face au defi d'etre capable de reproduire les conceptions juives traditionnelles concernant la femme dans le cadre d'une societe moderne laique. Ils montrent comment les etudiantes traduisent dans leurs experiences quo…
Contribution to the Collective by Religious‐Zionist Adolescent Girls
The act of contribution to the collective raises a major dilemma in contemporary religious Zionism in regard to girls and women: how to maintain their traditional restriction to the domestic sphere while allowing participation in national tasks that demand their presence in the male‐dominated public sphere. From in‐depth interviews conducted with 37 seventeen‐year‐old religious girls studying in a unisex residential boarding high school, we uncov…
Beyond the pollution haven hypothesis
Quantifying flows and economies of informal e-waste hubs
Despite increasing academic attention and the pressing development and environmental importance of informal e-waste economies in the global South, there remains a dearth of reliable quantitative data to guide theory and appropriate policy responses. We illustrate this problem through a review of the thin and patchy data presented in existing studies that attempt to quantify the flows and economic impact of informal e-waste hubs. We then describe …
Religious Socialization and Female Subjectivity
Les AA. examinent le lien entre sentiment religieux, sexe et subjectivite dans un cadre educatif religieux sioniste en Israel a partir d'une enquete menee dans un etablissement d'enseignement superieur. Ce cadre educatif doit faire face au defi d'etre capable de reproduire les conceptions juives traditionnelles concernant la femme dans le cadre d'une societe moderne laique. Ils montrent comment les etudiantes traduisent dans leurs experiences quo…
The political role of date palm trees in the Jordan Valley
In the West Bank, date palm trees have been sweeping over the Jordan Valley at an accelerating rate since the 2000s. The current scientific literature has depicted this transformation as sustainable development. This article proposes a method to harness social sciences in a meaningful manner within the interdisciplinary study of agricultural transformation. Focusing on appropriation rather than bundles of rights, within an exploration of water an…
Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case
Extended producer responsibility policies and interventions propose a template for electronic waste management with considerable and growing discursive and policy traction worldwide. Originating in the global North, they increasingly implicate countries and sites in the global South, in particular, people working in informal electronic waste hubs that process Northern electronic waste. This paper examines the implications of extended producer res…
Terror, Barriers, and the Changing Topography of Jerusalem
This article deals with the impact of urban terror and the construction of a peripheral barrier around Jerusalem. We are interested in an atypical set of conditions, or what might be called punctuated change, characterized by (1) an extremely shortened or telescoped time span; (2) the presence of an abrupt crisis that threatens to seriously harm, negatively transform, or even destroy a social order; (3) a volatile environment in which response is…
Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway's Inevitability
OVERVIEW HIS ESSAY DISCUSSES THE CREATION of a sense of inevitability as a key dimension in furthering a major infrastructure project, the Trans-Israel Highway.1 I illustrate some of the rhetorical and political moves that helped achieve this inevitability. While important in itself as an elucidation of an infrastructure project declared to be the country's largest ever, the lessons of this analysis extend beyond this project and the Israeli cont…
Contribution to the Collective by Religious‐Zionist Adolescent Girls
The act of contribution to the collective raises a major dilemma in contemporary religious Zionism in regard to girls and women: how to maintain their traditional restriction to the domestic sphere while allowing participation in national tasks that demand their presence in the male‐dominated public sphere. From in‐depth interviews conducted with 37 seventeen‐year‐old religious girls studying in a unisex residential boarding high school, we uncov…
The Experience of Religious Fortification
While in normative Judaism the category of female adolescence was virtually nonexistent, religious Zionist educational authorities in modern Israel have had to produce their own model of female adolescence and women's socialisation. Probing the accounts of 37 17 year-old religious Zionist female adolescents educated in a single-sex boarding school, we show that the young women experience adolescence as an intense period of religious fortification…
Cycles des déchets et valorisation
Ce reportage photo indique et illustre les dynamiques et les impacts d'une industrie palestinienne informelle de ramassage et de traitement de la majeure partie des déchets électroniques (« e-déchets ») israéliens, en place depuis plus une dizaine d'années. S'appuyant sur des observations détaillées sur le terrain réalisées durant ces quatre dernières années, comprenant plus de 300 entretiens approfondis semi-directifs auprès d'une variété d'acte…
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Paths of Power Mysticism
Contribution to the Collective by Religious‐Zionist Adolescent Girls
The act of contribution to the collective raises a major dilemma in contemporary religious Zionism in regard to girls and women: how to maintain their traditional restriction to the domestic sphere while allowing participation in national tasks that demand their presence in the male‐dominated public sphere. From in‐depth interviews conducted with 37 seventeen‐year‐old religious girls studying in a unisex residential boarding high school, we uncov…
Religious Socialization and Female Subjectivity
Les AA. examinent le lien entre sentiment religieux, sexe et subjectivite dans un cadre educatif religieux sioniste en Israel a partir d'une enquete menee dans un etablissement d'enseignement superieur. Ce cadre educatif doit faire face au defi d'etre capable de reproduire les conceptions juives traditionnelles concernant la femme dans le cadre d'une societe moderne laique. Ils montrent comment les etudiantes traduisent dans leurs experiences quo…
The Experience of Religious Fortification
While in normative Judaism the category of female adolescence was virtually nonexistent, religious Zionist educational authorities in modern Israel have had to produce their own model of female adolescence and women's socialisation. Probing the accounts of 37 17 year-old religious Zionist female adolescents educated in a single-sex boarding school, we show that the young women experience adolescence as an intense period of religious fortification…
Paths of Power Mysticism
Constructing the Trans-Israel Highway's Inevitability
OVERVIEW HIS ESSAY DISCUSSES THE CREATION of a sense of inevitability as a key dimension in furthering a major infrastructure project, the Trans-Israel Highway.1 I illustrate some of the rhetorical and political moves that helped achieve this inevitability. While important in itself as an elucidation of an infrastructure project declared to be the country's largest ever, the lessons of this analysis extend beyond this project and the Israeli cont…
Terror, Barriers, and the Changing Topography of Jerusalem
This article deals with the impact of urban terror and the construction of a peripheral barrier around Jerusalem. We are interested in an atypical set of conditions, or what might be called punctuated change, characterized by (1) an extremely shortened or telescoped time span; (2) the presence of an abrupt crisis that threatens to seriously harm, negatively transform, or even destroy a social order; (3) a volatile environment in which response is…
Scenarios in society, society in scenarios
Scenario analysis, an approach to thinking about alternative futures based on storyline-driven modeling, has become increasingly common and important in attempts to understand and respond to the impacts of human activities on natural systems at a variety of scales. The construction of scenarios is a fundamentally social activity, yet social scientific perspectives have rarely been brought to bear on it. Indeed, there is a growing imbalance betwee…
Where next with global environmental scenarios
Scenarios have become a standard tool in the portfolio of techniques that scientists and policy-makers use to envision and plan for the future. Defined as plausible, challenging and relevant stories about how the future might unfold that integrate quantitative models with qualitative assessments of social and political trends, scenarios are a central component in assessment processes for a range of global issues, including climate change, biodive…
Stakeholder participation in health impact assessment
Cycles des déchets et valorisation
Ce reportage photo indique et illustre les dynamiques et les impacts d'une industrie palestinienne informelle de ramassage et de traitement de la majeure partie des déchets électroniques (« e-déchets ») israéliens, en place depuis plus une dizaine d'années. S'appuyant sur des observations détaillées sur le terrain réalisées durant ces quatre dernières années, comprenant plus de 300 entretiens approfondis semi-directifs auprès d'une variété d'acte…
Beyond the pollution haven hypothesis
Quantifying flows and economies of informal e-waste hubs
Despite increasing academic attention and the pressing development and environmental importance of informal e-waste economies in the global South, there remains a dearth of reliable quantitative data to guide theory and appropriate policy responses. We illustrate this problem through a review of the thin and patchy data presented in existing studies that attempt to quantify the flows and economic impact of informal e-waste hubs. We then describe …
Extended responsibility or continued dis/articulation? Critical perspectives on electronic waste policies from the Israeli-Palestinian case
Extended producer responsibility policies and interventions propose a template for electronic waste management with considerable and growing discursive and policy traction worldwide. Originating in the global North, they increasingly implicate countries and sites in the global South, in particular, people working in informal electronic waste hubs that process Northern electronic waste. This paper examines the implications of extended producer res…
The political role of date palm trees in the Jordan Valley
In the West Bank, date palm trees have been sweeping over the Jordan Valley at an accelerating rate since the 2000s. The current scientific literature has depicted this transformation as sustainable development. This article proposes a method to harness social sciences in a meaningful manner within the interdisciplinary study of agricultural transformation. Focusing on appropriation rather than bundles of rights, within an exploration of water an…
Flowing toxics
We draw on several emerging literatures on contamination and waste and our own fieldwork on e-waste contamination in a Palestinian-Israeli border space to describe a “flowing” approach to toxic phenomena. We use this term as a shorthand to underscore the particular complexities of the socio-material-biological node called “toxics,” and the corresponding epistemic, methodological, and moral demands of studying them. Some episodes from typical days…
Hub-driven policy packages as a basis for e-waste reform
Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) principles have emerged as the template for e-waste policies, centered on establishing regulated collection and recycling channels. Originating in the global North, these policies are increasingly adopted in the global South where e-waste is primarily ‘managed’ by the informal sector, centered in spatially defined hubs. These formal systems fail to achieve collection quotas, while further marginalizing infor…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Business (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Engineering (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Recycling and Waste Management Techniques (5 works) · Archaeology (3 works)