N Mizrachi
Biographic Data
| ID | 3794 |
|---|---|
| NAME | N Mizrachi |
| GIVEN NAMES | N |
| FAMILY NAME | Mizrachi |
| SIGNATURE | MIZRACHI N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9989-8169 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 500 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 12 |
Transcending the Liberal Grammar of Critical Sociology: The Theoretical Turn in Israeli Sociology
We do not want to assimilate!’: Rethinking the role of group boundaries in peace initiatives between Muslims and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank
This article considers the cultural meaning of religious and community boundaries when attempting to mediate the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. Here we compare two sites, one religious, the other secular, of peace-building encounters between Palestinians and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank. Through extensive ethnographic work, the study draws attention to the divergent meanings of community boundaries in liberal and non-liberal cosmologies. Whe…
International Representation in US Social-Science Journals
When Buddhist vipassanā travels to Jewish West Bank settlements: Openness Without Cosmopolitanism
Insight meditation (vipassanā) originated in Theravāda Buddhism. However, participants in a "Jewish Vipassanā" meditation retreat - held at a Jewish settlement in the West Bank region controlled by Israel since 1967 - often depicted vipassanā as essentially Jewish. Indeed, to validate their adoption of insight meditation, many participants first needed to establish their exclusive commitment to orthodox Judaism. Consequently, they culturally appr…
A time of peace: Divergent temporalities in Jewish-Palestinian peace initiatives
This article considers the conflicting temporal models of peace among Jewish Israelis, specifically between liberal Zionists who populate the traditional peace camp, and the broader population that largely ignores or opposes such initiatives. We compare the mainstream peace process with budding alternative non-liberal peace initiatives on one issue-the relative importance of a signed peace agreement-to explore diverging visions of temporal progre…
Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. This book illuminates their experiences and responses to stigmatization and discrimination by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The book delves into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as t…
Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
"Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as the best strategy--whether individually, co…
From the study of racism to destigmatization and the transformation of group boundaries
The powerful film "I am not your Negro" concludes with novelist James Baldwin reflecting on how the United States made African-Americans into a "problem". He states that addressing this "problem" i
Sociology in the Garden: Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology
This article poses a simple question: why do marginalized Mizrahim, a group most likely to benefit from liberal justice and human rights, so vehemently and repeatedly reject the liberal message? To address this question, we shift the direction of inquiry from problems in the message's transmission or reception to the message itself. By doing so, we seek to go beyond the 'liberal grammar' shared by most social activists and critical sociologists. …
Translating Disability in a Muslim Community: A Case of Modular Translation
On the mismatch between multicultural education and its subjects in the field
This article draws attention to the growing evidence of a mismatch between sociological categorization and actors' worlds of meaning as expressed in the classroom. The mismatch is especially blatant in cases where students from disadvantaged groups are introduced to what educators and theorists presume to be the liberating discourse of multicultural education. Nurtured by recent developments in the sociology of culture, the article sheds light on…
Participatory destigmatization strategies among Palestinian citizens, Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi Jews in Israel
This study examines how members of minority groups in Israel cope with stigmatization in everyday life. It focuses on working-class members of three minority groups: Palestinian Arabs or Palestinian citizens of Israel, Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin) and Ethiopian Jews. It reveals the use of racial, ethnic and national markers in daily processes of social inclusion and exclusion in one sociopolitical context. Palestinia…
Between global racial and bounded identity: Choice of destigmatization strategies among Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Our research explores how Ethiopian Jews in Israel apply local and global cultural resources when forming their reactive strategies to stigmatization. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews with adult men and women, we examine class variations in the destigmatization strategies of working-class and middle-class Ethiopian Jews. Working-class Ethiopian Jews rely on their local bounded identity, that of Jews, rather than identity politics, which stresses…
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds light on the range of destigmatization strategies ordinar…
I don't want to see it: Decoupling ethnicity and class from social structure in Jewish Israeli high schools
Social inequality in Israel's education system has often been analysed with top-down structural models. This study inquires, instead, how students understand their position in the stratified structure of opportunities at school. Our quantitative and qualitative data, gathered in Jewish high schools in Israel, indicate that, despite clear ethno-class distribution in academic tracking, students reject the logic of identity politics and consider 'fr…
The Holocaust does not belong to European Jews alone: The differential use of memory techniques in Israeli high schools
On the basis of participant‐observations of classroom discussions in Jewish Israeli high schools during two memorial days, we examine how different ethnoclass groups within a presumably consensual national collectivity remember the nation. We found that teachers use different memory techniques with different groups of students and in relation to different historical memories, and we suggest that doing so variously repositions subgroups toward the…
Repertoires of Trust: The Practice of Trust in a Multinational Organization amid Political Conflict
Sociologists and other social scientists have recently renewed their interest in the concept of trust. Multidisciplinary studies have identified social psychological, economic, and structural determinants of trust; traced its development in interpersonal relationships; and explored its transformation in response to modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research at a multinational corporation operating in a politically charged environment, we ree…
The field worker's fields: Ethics, Ethnography and Medical Sociology
Sociologists who do field work in medical settings face an intractable tension between their disciplinary field, which takes a critical perspective toward medicine, and their ethnographic field, which often includes physicians. This paper explores the ethical problems that result from the collision of the two fields. While in the field, ethnographers are forced to choose between sociology and their obligations to host members, as they decide whet…
Between formal and enacted policy: Changing the Contours of Boundaries
Boundary at work: Alternative Medicine in Biomedical Settings
The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in modern medicine: collaboration between alternative and biomedical practitioners (primarily physicians) working together in biomedical settings. The study uses qualitative methods to examine the nature of this collaboration by calling attention to the ways in which the biomedical profession manages to secure its boundaries and to protec…
Changing Boundaries: Modes of Coexistence of Alternative and Biomedicine
In this article, the authors address the boundaries of institutional structures, the dynamics of their configuration, and the nature of their permeability. The authors explored these issues in Israel, where the changing relationship of bio and alternative medicine elucidates recent processes of professional boundary redefinition. They used qualitative methods to analyze in-depth interviews in clinics and hospitals where alternative and biomedical…
From badness to sickness: 1 The role of ethnopsychology in shaping ethnic hierarchies in Israel
This article explores the role of the psychological sciences in depoliticising processes of ethnic demarcation and marginalisation within the Jewish population in Israel. It shows how the psychological sciences have provided the scientific foundation by which cultural domination and subordination have been essentialised. The study traces the ways in which ethnopsychological discourse has changed its contours over time. Early ethnopsychological di…
Entering the well-guarded fortress: Alternative Practitioners in Hospital Settings
Epistemology and legitimacy in the production of anorexia nervosa in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine 1939-1979
This study examines the role of the interplay between epistemology and legitimacy in shaping the conceptualisation of anorexia. It focuses on the process of knowledge production within a particular medical setting - the journal, Psychosomatic Medicine. The journal was founded as part of the first psychosomatic movement in the history of the US seeking to undermine the epistemological foundation of biomedicine: the mind-body division in medical th…
From Causation to Correlation: The Story of Psychosomatic Medicine 1939–1979
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds light on the range of destigmatization strategies ordinar…
Participatory destigmatization strategies among Palestinian citizens, Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi Jews in Israel
This study examines how members of minority groups in Israel cope with stigmatization in everyday life. It focuses on working-class members of three minority groups: Palestinian Arabs or Palestinian citizens of Israel, Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin) and Ethiopian Jews. It reveals the use of racial, ethnic and national markers in daily processes of social inclusion and exclusion in one sociopolitical context. Palestinia…
Boundary at work: Alternative Medicine in Biomedical Settings
The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in modern medicine: collaboration between alternative and biomedical practitioners (primarily physicians) working together in biomedical settings. The study uses qualitative methods to examine the nature of this collaboration by calling attention to the ways in which the biomedical profession manages to secure its boundaries and to protec…
Entering the well-guarded fortress: Alternative Practitioners in Hospital Settings
Repertoires of Trust: The Practice of Trust in a Multinational Organization amid Political Conflict
Sociologists and other social scientists have recently renewed their interest in the concept of trust. Multidisciplinary studies have identified social psychological, economic, and structural determinants of trust; traced its development in interpersonal relationships; and explored its transformation in response to modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research at a multinational corporation operating in a politically charged environment, we ree…
Between global racial and bounded identity: Choice of destigmatization strategies among Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Our research explores how Ethiopian Jews in Israel apply local and global cultural resources when forming their reactive strategies to stigmatization. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews with adult men and women, we examine class variations in the destigmatization strategies of working-class and middle-class Ethiopian Jews. Working-class Ethiopian Jews rely on their local bounded identity, that of Jews, rather than identity politics, which stresses…
Sociology in the Garden: Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology
This article poses a simple question: why do marginalized Mizrahim, a group most likely to benefit from liberal justice and human rights, so vehemently and repeatedly reject the liberal message? To address this question, we shift the direction of inquiry from problems in the message's transmission or reception to the message itself. By doing so, we seek to go beyond the 'liberal grammar' shared by most social activists and critical sociologists. …
I don't want to see it: Decoupling ethnicity and class from social structure in Jewish Israeli high schools
Social inequality in Israel's education system has often been analysed with top-down structural models. This study inquires, instead, how students understand their position in the stratified structure of opportunities at school. Our quantitative and qualitative data, gathered in Jewish high schools in Israel, indicate that, despite clear ethno-class distribution in academic tracking, students reject the logic of identity politics and consider 'fr…
Between formal and enacted policy: Changing the Contours of Boundaries
From badness to sickness: 1 The role of ethnopsychology in shaping ethnic hierarchies in Israel
This article explores the role of the psychological sciences in depoliticising processes of ethnic demarcation and marginalisation within the Jewish population in Israel. It shows how the psychological sciences have provided the scientific foundation by which cultural domination and subordination have been essentialised. The study traces the ways in which ethnopsychological discourse has changed its contours over time. Early ethnopsychological di…
The Holocaust does not belong to European Jews alone: The differential use of memory techniques in Israeli high schools
On the basis of participant‐observations of classroom discussions in Jewish Israeli high schools during two memorial days, we examine how different ethnoclass groups within a presumably consensual national collectivity remember the nation. We found that teachers use different memory techniques with different groups of students and in relation to different historical memories, and we suggest that doing so variously repositions subgroups toward the…
The field worker's fields: Ethics, Ethnography and Medical Sociology
Sociologists who do field work in medical settings face an intractable tension between their disciplinary field, which takes a critical perspective toward medicine, and their ethnographic field, which often includes physicians. This paper explores the ethical problems that result from the collision of the two fields. While in the field, ethnographers are forced to choose between sociology and their obligations to host members, as they decide whet…
Changing Boundaries: Modes of Coexistence of Alternative and Biomedicine
In this article, the authors address the boundaries of institutional structures, the dynamics of their configuration, and the nature of their permeability. The authors explored these issues in Israel, where the changing relationship of bio and alternative medicine elucidates recent processes of professional boundary redefinition. They used qualitative methods to analyze in-depth interviews in clinics and hospitals where alternative and biomedical…
A time of peace: Divergent temporalities in Jewish-Palestinian peace initiatives
This article considers the conflicting temporal models of peace among Jewish Israelis, specifically between liberal Zionists who populate the traditional peace camp, and the broader population that largely ignores or opposes such initiatives. We compare the mainstream peace process with budding alternative non-liberal peace initiatives on one issue-the relative importance of a signed peace agreement-to explore diverging visions of temporal progre…
International Representation in US Social-Science Journals
When the Hospital Becomes Home: Visibility, Knowledge, and Power at Nila
This study explores the interrelations among visibility, knowledge, and power in a hybrid institution-a hospital that functions as a boarding school for handicapped children. It demonstrates how the incongruity between the institution's formal definition as a hospital and its day-to-day reality plays a role in shaping the power structure, prioritization of types of knowledge, and visibility of its agents. For through these groups' interactions wi…
Transcending the Liberal Grammar of Critical Sociology: The Theoretical Turn in Israeli Sociology
We do not want to assimilate!’: Rethinking the role of group boundaries in peace initiatives between Muslims and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank
This article considers the cultural meaning of religious and community boundaries when attempting to mediate the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. Here we compare two sites, one religious, the other secular, of peace-building encounters between Palestinians and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank. Through extensive ethnographic work, the study draws attention to the divergent meanings of community boundaries in liberal and non-liberal cosmologies. Whe…
When Buddhist vipassanā travels to Jewish West Bank settlements: Openness Without Cosmopolitanism
Insight meditation (vipassanā) originated in Theravāda Buddhism. However, participants in a "Jewish Vipassanā" meditation retreat - held at a Jewish settlement in the West Bank region controlled by Israel since 1967 - often depicted vipassanā as essentially Jewish. Indeed, to validate their adoption of insight meditation, many participants first needed to establish their exclusive commitment to orthodox Judaism. Consequently, they culturally appr…
On the mismatch between multicultural education and its subjects in the field
This article draws attention to the growing evidence of a mismatch between sociological categorization and actors' worlds of meaning as expressed in the classroom. The mismatch is especially blatant in cases where students from disadvantaged groups are introduced to what educators and theorists presume to be the liberating discourse of multicultural education. Nurtured by recent developments in the sociology of culture, the article sheds light on…
From the study of racism to destigmatization and the transformation of group boundaries
The powerful film "I am not your Negro" concludes with novelist James Baldwin reflecting on how the United States made African-Americans into a "problem". He states that addressing this "problem" i
Epistemology and legitimacy in the production of anorexia nervosa in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine 1939-1979
This study examines the role of the interplay between epistemology and legitimacy in shaping the conceptualisation of anorexia. It focuses on the process of knowledge production within a particular medical setting - the journal, Psychosomatic Medicine. The journal was founded as part of the first psychosomatic movement in the history of the US seeking to undermine the epistemological foundation of biomedicine: the mind-body division in medical th…
From Causation to Correlation: The Story of Psychosomatic Medicine 1939–1979
The Relevance of Success: The Dualistic Trap; Response to Gary Belkin
When the Hospital Becomes Home: Visibility, Knowledge, and Power at Nila
This study explores the interrelations among visibility, knowledge, and power in a hybrid institution-a hospital that functions as a boarding school for handicapped children. It demonstrates how the incongruity between the institution's formal definition as a hospital and its day-to-day reality plays a role in shaping the power structure, prioritization of types of knowledge, and visibility of its agents. For through these groups' interactions wi…
Entering the well-guarded fortress: Alternative Practitioners in Hospital Settings
Epistemology and legitimacy in the production of anorexia nervosa in the journal Psychosomatic Medicine 1939-1979
This study examines the role of the interplay between epistemology and legitimacy in shaping the conceptualisation of anorexia. It focuses on the process of knowledge production within a particular medical setting - the journal, Psychosomatic Medicine. The journal was founded as part of the first psychosomatic movement in the history of the US seeking to undermine the epistemological foundation of biomedicine: the mind-body division in medical th…
Changing Boundaries: Modes of Coexistence of Alternative and Biomedicine
In this article, the authors address the boundaries of institutional structures, the dynamics of their configuration, and the nature of their permeability. The authors explored these issues in Israel, where the changing relationship of bio and alternative medicine elucidates recent processes of professional boundary redefinition. They used qualitative methods to analyze in-depth interviews in clinics and hospitals where alternative and biomedical…
From badness to sickness: 1 The role of ethnopsychology in shaping ethnic hierarchies in Israel
This article explores the role of the psychological sciences in depoliticising processes of ethnic demarcation and marginalisation within the Jewish population in Israel. It shows how the psychological sciences have provided the scientific foundation by which cultural domination and subordination have been essentialised. The study traces the ways in which ethnopsychological discourse has changed its contours over time. Early ethnopsychological di…
Between formal and enacted policy: Changing the Contours of Boundaries
Boundary at work: Alternative Medicine in Biomedical Settings
The study explores the process of boundary demarcation within hospital settings by examining a new phenomenon in modern medicine: collaboration between alternative and biomedical practitioners (primarily physicians) working together in biomedical settings. The study uses qualitative methods to examine the nature of this collaboration by calling attention to the ways in which the biomedical profession manages to secure its boundaries and to protec…
The field worker's fields: Ethics, Ethnography and Medical Sociology
Sociologists who do field work in medical settings face an intractable tension between their disciplinary field, which takes a critical perspective toward medicine, and their ethnographic field, which often includes physicians. This paper explores the ethical problems that result from the collision of the two fields. While in the field, ethnographers are forced to choose between sociology and their obligations to host members, as they decide whet…
Repertoires of Trust: The Practice of Trust in a Multinational Organization amid Political Conflict
Sociologists and other social scientists have recently renewed their interest in the concept of trust. Multidisciplinary studies have identified social psychological, economic, and structural determinants of trust; traced its development in interpersonal relationships; and explored its transformation in response to modernization. Drawing on ethnographic research at a multinational corporation operating in a politically charged environment, we ree…
The Holocaust does not belong to European Jews alone: The differential use of memory techniques in Israeli high schools
On the basis of participant‐observations of classroom discussions in Jewish Israeli high schools during two memorial days, we examine how different ethnoclass groups within a presumably consensual national collectivity remember the nation. We found that teachers use different memory techniques with different groups of students and in relation to different historical memories, and we suggest that doing so variously repositions subgroups toward the…
I don't want to see it: Decoupling ethnicity and class from social structure in Jewish Israeli high schools
Social inequality in Israel's education system has often been analysed with top-down structural models. This study inquires, instead, how students understand their position in the stratified structure of opportunities at school. Our quantitative and qualitative data, gathered in Jewish high schools in Israel, indicate that, despite clear ethno-class distribution in academic tracking, students reject the logic of identity politics and consider 'fr…
Ordinary people doing extraordinary things: Responses to Stigmatization in Comparative Perspective
This special issue offers a first systematic qualitative cross-national exploration of how diverse minority groups respond to stigmatization in a wide variety of contexts. This research is the culmination of a coordinated study of stigmatized groups in Brazil, Israel and the USA, as well as of connected research projects conducted in Canada, France, South Africa and Sweden. The issue sheds light on the range of destigmatization strategies ordinar…
On the mismatch between multicultural education and its subjects in the field
This article draws attention to the growing evidence of a mismatch between sociological categorization and actors' worlds of meaning as expressed in the classroom. The mismatch is especially blatant in cases where students from disadvantaged groups are introduced to what educators and theorists presume to be the liberating discourse of multicultural education. Nurtured by recent developments in the sociology of culture, the article sheds light on…
Participatory destigmatization strategies among Palestinian citizens, Ethiopian Jews and Mizrahi Jews in Israel
This study examines how members of minority groups in Israel cope with stigmatization in everyday life. It focuses on working-class members of three minority groups: Palestinian Arabs or Palestinian citizens of Israel, Mizrahim (Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin) and Ethiopian Jews. It reveals the use of racial, ethnic and national markers in daily processes of social inclusion and exclusion in one sociopolitical context. Palestinia…
Between global racial and bounded identity: Choice of destigmatization strategies among Ethiopian Jews in Israel
Our research explores how Ethiopian Jews in Israel apply local and global cultural resources when forming their reactive strategies to stigmatization. Drawing on 40 in-depth interviews with adult men and women, we examine class variations in the destigmatization strategies of working-class and middle-class Ethiopian Jews. Working-class Ethiopian Jews rely on their local bounded identity, that of Jews, rather than identity politics, which stresses…
Translating Disability in a Muslim Community: A Case of Modular Translation
Sociology in the Garden: Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology
This article poses a simple question: why do marginalized Mizrahim, a group most likely to benefit from liberal justice and human rights, so vehemently and repeatedly reject the liberal message? To address this question, we shift the direction of inquiry from problems in the message's transmission or reception to the message itself. By doing so, we seek to go beyond the 'liberal grammar' shared by most social activists and critical sociologists. …
Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
"Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. Getting Respect illuminates their experiences by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The authors delve into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as the best strategy--whether individually, co…
From the study of racism to destigmatization and the transformation of group boundaries
The powerful film "I am not your Negro" concludes with novelist James Baldwin reflecting on how the United States made African-Americans into a "problem". He states that addressing this "problem" i
Getting Respect: Responding to Stigma and Discrimination in the United States, Brazil, and Israel
Racism is a common occurrence for members of marginalized groups around the world. This book illuminates their experiences and responses to stigmatization and discrimination by comparing three countries with enduring group boundaries: the United States, Brazil and Israel. The book delves into what kinds of stigmatizing or discriminatory incidents individuals encounter in each country, how they respond to these occurrences, and what they view as t…
A time of peace: Divergent temporalities in Jewish-Palestinian peace initiatives
This article considers the conflicting temporal models of peace among Jewish Israelis, specifically between liberal Zionists who populate the traditional peace camp, and the broader population that largely ignores or opposes such initiatives. We compare the mainstream peace process with budding alternative non-liberal peace initiatives on one issue-the relative importance of a signed peace agreement-to explore diverging visions of temporal progre…
We do not want to assimilate!’: Rethinking the role of group boundaries in peace initiatives between Muslims and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank
This article considers the cultural meaning of religious and community boundaries when attempting to mediate the Jewish-Palestinian conflict. Here we compare two sites, one religious, the other secular, of peace-building encounters between Palestinians and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank. Through extensive ethnographic work, the study draws attention to the divergent meanings of community boundaries in liberal and non-liberal cosmologies. Whe…
International Representation in US Social-Science Journals
Sociology (25 works) · Political science (22 works) · Law (19 works) · Epistemology (14 works) · Social science (13 works) · Law (12 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (11 works) · Politics (11 works) · Gender Studies (10 works) · Psychology (9 works)