Orna Blumen
Biographic Data
| ID | 640897 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orna Blumen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orna |
| FAMILY NAME | Blumen |
| SIGNATURE | BLUMEN O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3306-5404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Pregnant and jobless: A contextualizing analysis of pregnancy dismissal in Israeli labour court rulings
Discrimination against pregnant employees is widespread despite labour laws aimed at protecting them. Pertaining to recently emerging research on pregnancy in the workplace, including pregnancy discrimination, this study considered the gravest manifestation of direct discrimination, and one that has been neglected to date: dismissal during pregnancy. Inspired by John's contextual theory, we sought to identify the socio-economic profile of dismiss…
On the service frontline: Israeli Arab-Palestinian men in a call-center
Intersectionality is applied to gender-occupation-minority inconsistent hierarchies, to as to explore the workplace-experience of Israeli Arab-Palestinian men service workers and unveil the multiple-geographies it contains. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 24 suchlike men emphasize complexity as the key feature of their intersectional experience. Whereas masculinity and Israeli-Palestinianess are forged against the feminine and Israeli-Je…
Home–work relations and the spatialization of care: Wives on the margins of the Israeli high-tech industry
This study applies the concept of care to examine how home–work transitions of high-tech men affect others in these two places, namely their wives and managers. The high-tech industry is famous for its particularly demanding culture and masculine disposition, which contest daily involvement with family and domestic affairs. Care is conceptualized as a wide-ranging multifaceted notion that embraces work, morals, and policy, and is represented by t…
What a Difference a Place Makes: The Reflexive (Mis) management of a City’s Pasts
In this article the authors use the concept of “place memory” to contemplate how the temporal qualities of places inflect the activities carried out in them by considering how one group, the Haifa chapter of Women in Black (WiB) in Israel, makes conscious and unconscious use of the possible readings of an “ordinary” place and its history. The authors demonstrate the argument by analyzing the group’s peregrinations over the past twenty years. Afte…
The site of silence: Performing the economy of (non-)memory in Israel
In this study we seek to understand the gendered dynamics of bearing witness, remembering, and mourning in contemporary Israeli society by examining the performative practices of one protest movement, Women in Black (WiB). Our focus is on the Haifa chapter of the movement, whose vigils we observed over a seven-year period. After a brief overview of the literature regarding national remembering and commemoration in Israel, the formation of WiB and…
Staging Peace Through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel
Israeli Women in Black was founded twenty years ago to demonstrate for peace and against the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their political activism involves three spatial processes: outing their protest by taking to the streets, locating their protest through strategic siting, and performing their politics, thus redefining the places they occupy. The Haifa chapter has relocated its demonstrations several times in response to politica…
Jewish Topographies: Visions of Space, Traditions of Place - Edited by Julia Brauch, Anna Lipphardt and Alexandra Nocke
The Performative Landscape of Going-To-Work: On the Edge of a Jewish Ultraorthodox Neighborhood
Following recent insights into performativity and space, I explore the widespread routine of going-to-work as a capitalist ritual. Going-to-work produces a powerful yet ordinary, unspectacular landscape, whose performativity is fourfold: the compatibility of the material form and human use of it; the movements of people and the clothes they wear; the variety of individual practices of going-to-work; and the timing and spacing of this collective r…
Negotiating National Boundaries: Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Studies Students in Israel
This article examines the intersection of gender and national identity in an Israeli university, focusing on the Women's Studies classroom. Taking into consideration the overshadowing effect of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, we wondered how exposure to Women's Studies’ egalitarian ethos and studying in a mixed Palestinian–Jewish classroom affects the feminist solidarity and national identity of young women students. In-depth interviews with el…
I Carry Out Small Wars: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel
This study examines the experiences of young Palestinian and Jewish women graduates of the Women's Studies program at an Israeli research university. Relying on in-depth semi-structured interviews it finds that although most of the respondents registered in the program without a clear idea of what it was, most found their exposure to Women's Studies highly beneficial and enjoyable. All shared a strong sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerme…
The Chosen Body: The politics of the body in Israeli society
Criss-crossing Boundaries: Ultraorthodox Jewish women go to work
The most prestigious work in the ultraorthodox Jewish community is full-time, unpaid, religious study, which is allocated to men. As a result, married women are often responsible for both homemaking and breadwinning. This study examines the 'going to work' of these Israeli wives as an encompassing operation of two directions--the going to and the coming from work. First, it analyses the sociocultural evolution of ultraorthodox gender identities w…
Women's professional choice in geography: National sentiments and national exclusion
Urbanized Peripheries: A Regional Study of Crime in Israel
This study explores the regional patterns of crime in Israel for the first time. It examines crime rates and interregional crime by comparing the home region of offenders and the region of the offense. In a society small in size and population, urbanization has a limited impact on crime rates. This analysis, based on variables drawn from a national census and police crime statistics, stresses three types of peripheral region: regions that "attrac…
Two Social Environments in a Working Day: Occupation and Spatial Segregation in Metropolitan Tel Aviv
The concepts of segregation and social distance have long been used to explain the social environment of stratified residential space. However, the social significance of occupation, though acknowledged, has rarely been applied spatially. In this study, we employed these three concepts to examine the social environment of the entire metropolitan employment space as defined by job location. Smallest space analysis was used to identify and compare …
Dissonance in Women's Commuting? The Experience of Exurban Employed Mothers in Israel
Women's work is mainly divided between unpaid domestic labour and paid jobs, both reflecting their subordinate position. Most women experience a spatial discontinuity between these roles, which are performed in different places, namely home and workplace. Research points to the negative impact of home-work separation on the daily routine of employed women, especially in peripheral suburbs. This study explores the personal experience of commuting …
The spatial distribution of occupational prestige in metropolitan Tel Aviv
Occupational prestige is the social value attributed to occupation, and in most instances indicates socio‐economic status. It is obtained at the workplace and manifested in one's lifestyle in a specific place of residence, and its spatial distribution therefore follows the repetitive flow of commuters. The geography of such prestige has not previously been studied; this study uses the 1983 census to examine the spatial distribution of occupationa…
Gender Differences in the Journey to Work
It is now well established in geographic research that women commute shorter distances to work than men. This paper attempts to explore the common features that have emerged from the last two decades of research in various places within a metropolitan context. Three main sets of factors that may cause women to commute shorter distances are recognized: residence, employment, and transportation—each containing both social and spatial aspects. The a…
Gender Differences in the Journey to Work
It is now well established in geographic research that women commute shorter distances to work than men. This paper attempts to explore the common features that have emerged from the last two decades of research in various places within a metropolitan context. Three main sets of factors that may cause women to commute shorter distances are recognized: residence, employment, and transportation—each containing both social and spatial aspects. The a…
Criss-crossing Boundaries: Ultraorthodox Jewish women go to work
The most prestigious work in the ultraorthodox Jewish community is full-time, unpaid, religious study, which is allocated to men. As a result, married women are often responsible for both homemaking and breadwinning. This study examines the 'going to work' of these Israeli wives as an encompassing operation of two directions--the going to and the coming from work. First, it analyses the sociocultural evolution of ultraorthodox gender identities w…
The Performative Landscape of Going-To-Work: On the Edge of a Jewish Ultraorthodox Neighborhood
Following recent insights into performativity and space, I explore the widespread routine of going-to-work as a capitalist ritual. Going-to-work produces a powerful yet ordinary, unspectacular landscape, whose performativity is fourfold: the compatibility of the material form and human use of it; the movements of people and the clothes they wear; the variety of individual practices of going-to-work; and the timing and spacing of this collective r…
Two Social Environments in a Working Day: Occupation and Spatial Segregation in Metropolitan Tel Aviv
The concepts of segregation and social distance have long been used to explain the social environment of stratified residential space. However, the social significance of occupation, though acknowledged, has rarely been applied spatially. In this study, we employed these three concepts to examine the social environment of the entire metropolitan employment space as defined by job location. Smallest space analysis was used to identify and compare …
Women's professional choice in geography: National sentiments and national exclusion
Home–work relations and the spatialization of care: Wives on the margins of the Israeli high-tech industry
This study applies the concept of care to examine how home–work transitions of high-tech men affect others in these two places, namely their wives and managers. The high-tech industry is famous for its particularly demanding culture and masculine disposition, which contest daily involvement with family and domestic affairs. Care is conceptualized as a wide-ranging multifaceted notion that embraces work, morals, and policy, and is represented by t…
Staging Peace Through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel
Israeli Women in Black was founded twenty years ago to demonstrate for peace and against the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their political activism involves three spatial processes: outing their protest by taking to the streets, locating their protest through strategic siting, and performing their politics, thus redefining the places they occupy. The Haifa chapter has relocated its demonstrations several times in response to politica…
I Carry Out Small Wars: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel
This study examines the experiences of young Palestinian and Jewish women graduates of the Women's Studies program at an Israeli research university. Relying on in-depth semi-structured interviews it finds that although most of the respondents registered in the program without a clear idea of what it was, most found their exposure to Women's Studies highly beneficial and enjoyable. All shared a strong sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerme…
Dissonance in Women's Commuting? The Experience of Exurban Employed Mothers in Israel
Women's work is mainly divided between unpaid domestic labour and paid jobs, both reflecting their subordinate position. Most women experience a spatial discontinuity between these roles, which are performed in different places, namely home and workplace. Research points to the negative impact of home-work separation on the daily routine of employed women, especially in peripheral suburbs. This study explores the personal experience of commuting …
Gender Differences in the Journey to Work
It is now well established in geographic research that women commute shorter distances to work than men. This paper attempts to explore the common features that have emerged from the last two decades of research in various places within a metropolitan context. Three main sets of factors that may cause women to commute shorter distances are recognized: residence, employment, and transportation—each containing both social and spatial aspects. The a…
The spatial distribution of occupational prestige in metropolitan Tel Aviv
Occupational prestige is the social value attributed to occupation, and in most instances indicates socio‐economic status. It is obtained at the workplace and manifested in one's lifestyle in a specific place of residence, and its spatial distribution therefore follows the repetitive flow of commuters. The geography of such prestige has not previously been studied; this study uses the 1983 census to examine the spatial distribution of occupationa…
Dissonance in Women's Commuting? The Experience of Exurban Employed Mothers in Israel
Women's work is mainly divided between unpaid domestic labour and paid jobs, both reflecting their subordinate position. Most women experience a spatial discontinuity between these roles, which are performed in different places, namely home and workplace. Research points to the negative impact of home-work separation on the daily routine of employed women, especially in peripheral suburbs. This study explores the personal experience of commuting …
Two Social Environments in a Working Day: Occupation and Spatial Segregation in Metropolitan Tel Aviv
The concepts of segregation and social distance have long been used to explain the social environment of stratified residential space. However, the social significance of occupation, though acknowledged, has rarely been applied spatially. In this study, we employed these three concepts to examine the social environment of the entire metropolitan employment space as defined by job location. Smallest space analysis was used to identify and compare …
Criss-crossing Boundaries: Ultraorthodox Jewish women go to work
The most prestigious work in the ultraorthodox Jewish community is full-time, unpaid, religious study, which is allocated to men. As a result, married women are often responsible for both homemaking and breadwinning. This study examines the 'going to work' of these Israeli wives as an encompassing operation of two directions--the going to and the coming from work. First, it analyses the sociocultural evolution of ultraorthodox gender identities w…
Women's professional choice in geography: National sentiments and national exclusion
Urbanized Peripheries: A Regional Study of Crime in Israel
This study explores the regional patterns of crime in Israel for the first time. It examines crime rates and interregional crime by comparing the home region of offenders and the region of the offense. In a society small in size and population, urbanization has a limited impact on crime rates. This analysis, based on variables drawn from a national census and police crime statistics, stresses three types of peripheral region: regions that "attrac…
The Chosen Body: The politics of the body in Israeli society
Negotiating National Boundaries: Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Studies Students in Israel
This article examines the intersection of gender and national identity in an Israeli university, focusing on the Women's Studies classroom. Taking into consideration the overshadowing effect of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, we wondered how exposure to Women's Studies’ egalitarian ethos and studying in a mixed Palestinian–Jewish classroom affects the feminist solidarity and national identity of young women students. In-depth interviews with el…
I Carry Out Small Wars: The Impact of Women's Studies on Palestinian and Jewish Students in Israel
This study examines the experiences of young Palestinian and Jewish women graduates of the Women's Studies program at an Israeli research university. Relying on in-depth semi-structured interviews it finds that although most of the respondents registered in the program without a clear idea of what it was, most found their exposure to Women's Studies highly beneficial and enjoyable. All shared a strong sense of empowerment. This sense of empowerme…
The Performative Landscape of Going-To-Work: On the Edge of a Jewish Ultraorthodox Neighborhood
Following recent insights into performativity and space, I explore the widespread routine of going-to-work as a capitalist ritual. Going-to-work produces a powerful yet ordinary, unspectacular landscape, whose performativity is fourfold: the compatibility of the material form and human use of it; the movements of people and the clothes they wear; the variety of individual practices of going-to-work; and the timing and spacing of this collective r…
Staging Peace Through a Gendered Demonstration: Women in Black in Haifa, Israel
Israeli Women in Black was founded twenty years ago to demonstrate for peace and against the occupation of the Palestinian territories. Their political activism involves three spatial processes: outing their protest by taking to the streets, locating their protest through strategic siting, and performing their politics, thus redefining the places they occupy. The Haifa chapter has relocated its demonstrations several times in response to politica…
Jewish Topographies: Visions of Space, Traditions of Place - Edited by Julia Brauch, Anna Lipphardt and Alexandra Nocke
What a Difference a Place Makes: The Reflexive (Mis) management of a City’s Pasts
In this article the authors use the concept of “place memory” to contemplate how the temporal qualities of places inflect the activities carried out in them by considering how one group, the Haifa chapter of Women in Black (WiB) in Israel, makes conscious and unconscious use of the possible readings of an “ordinary” place and its history. The authors demonstrate the argument by analyzing the group’s peregrinations over the past twenty years. Afte…
The site of silence: Performing the economy of (non-)memory in Israel
In this study we seek to understand the gendered dynamics of bearing witness, remembering, and mourning in contemporary Israeli society by examining the performative practices of one protest movement, Women in Black (WiB). Our focus is on the Haifa chapter of the movement, whose vigils we observed over a seven-year period. After a brief overview of the literature regarding national remembering and commemoration in Israel, the formation of WiB and…
Home–work relations and the spatialization of care: Wives on the margins of the Israeli high-tech industry
This study applies the concept of care to examine how home–work transitions of high-tech men affect others in these two places, namely their wives and managers. The high-tech industry is famous for its particularly demanding culture and masculine disposition, which contest daily involvement with family and domestic affairs. Care is conceptualized as a wide-ranging multifaceted notion that embraces work, morals, and policy, and is represented by t…
On the service frontline: Israeli Arab-Palestinian men in a call-center
Intersectionality is applied to gender-occupation-minority inconsistent hierarchies, to as to explore the workplace-experience of Israeli Arab-Palestinian men service workers and unveil the multiple-geographies it contains. In-depth semi-structured interviews with 24 suchlike men emphasize complexity as the key feature of their intersectional experience. Whereas masculinity and Israeli-Palestinianess are forged against the feminine and Israeli-Je…
Pregnant and jobless: A contextualizing analysis of pregnancy dismissal in Israeli labour court rulings
Discrimination against pregnant employees is widespread despite labour laws aimed at protecting them. Pertaining to recently emerging research on pregnancy in the workplace, including pregnancy discrimination, this study considered the gravest manifestation of direct discrimination, and one that has been neglected to date: dismissal during pregnancy. Inspired by John's contextual theory, we sought to identify the socio-economic profile of dismiss…
Sociology (17 works) · Geography (10 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (10 works) · Gender Studies (9 works) · Political science (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Demographic economics (6 works) · Gender Studies (5 works) · History (5 works) · Judaism (5 works)