Esther Alloun
Biographic Data
| ID | 644773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Esther Alloun |
| GIVEN NAMES | Esther |
| FAMILY NAME | Alloun |
| SIGNATURE | ALLOUN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | UNSW Sydney |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5598-6880 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 16 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Eating in the city
Urban planning increasingly recognises that built environments shape peoples’ health and wellbeing. As cities accommodate growing populations, understanding relationships between local neighbourhoods and health and wellbeing is essential to addressing disparities affecting migrants and producing equitable forms of multicultural co-existence. However, health policy can position forced migrants as passive recipients of information and services, whi…
Navigating health and social care systems
There is increasing impetus to help individuals navigate health and social care systems. Though the development and effectiveness of navigator roles have long been explored in health and sociological research, evaluations of navigation are typically narrow in focus and oriented to individual outcomes, quantitative metrics, or barriers and enablers in implementation. Investigating the structural effects of navigation, especially across disparate c…
By Residents, for Residents
Peer and community-based initiatives are becoming an increasingly important component of integrated care programs. Valuing the process as well as the outcomes and providing long-term timeframes and ongoing resources are critical to sustain change
Decolonising animal activism
Animal rights activism has been criticised in settler-colonial states for overlooking human rights abuses and shielding colonial powers. However, the efforts of animal rights activists to expand their political alliances with subaltern and colonised others are laden with tensions, stemming from the oppression and violence of settler-colonial projects. The steps that progressive non-Indigenous activists can take to support alliances with colonised…
Exchanging of knowledge – lessons from implementation of a peer education program in Sydney, Australia
Introduction: Social housing residents often experience poorer health outcomes compared to the wider community due to factors such as social isolation, intergenerational disadvantage, trauma, poverty, stigma, limited health literacy, and barriers to accessing resources. Peer Educators provide a link between their communities, the health sector and the broader environment. Shared characteristics and experiences between peers and communities can en…
Actually existing intersectionality
Critiques of intersectionality as an additive and simplistic model of understanding identity politics has led to calls for renewed concepts that better grasp the complexity and potential of shared struggle. In this article, we contend that the experiences of activists attempting to practice an intersectional human and animal rights politics are a crucial yet overlooked resource in the development of such conceptual imaginaries and ethical practic…
Place-making and its impact on health and wellbeing among recently resettled refugees in high income contexts
We identified three aspects of ‘place-making’ relevant to refugee health: material; psychosocial; and structural. • Place-making is negotiated through refugee agency, processes of inhabitation, and situated encounters, all of which impact health/wellbeing. • Poor access to safe housing and neighbourhoods, therapeutic leisure and green spaces, and racism worsen mental health among refugees. • Psychosocial aspects of belonging and strong family, an…
Veganwashing Israel's Dirty Laundry? Animal Politics and Nationalism in Palestine-Israel
In popular media and public discourse, Israel has been referred to as ‘the first vegan nation’ and the ‘global centre for veganism’ because of the mainstreaming of veganism in the country in the 2010s. The article examines this triumphalist rhetoric and argues that animal welfare and veganism have been enrolled as a device to narrate the Israeli nation within terms of Jewish Israeli sovereignty. The contemporary cultural politics of veganism in I…
‘That’s the beauty of it, it’s very simple!’ Animal rights and settler colonialism in Palestine–Israel
This article examines the contemporary animal rights movement in Palestine–Israel and compares Jewish Israeli activism to Palestinian activism to illuminate the ways in which the settler colonial context shapes animal politics. The article argues that human–animal relationships constitute a significant dimension through which settler colonialism is expressed, engaged with, and resisted. As such, drawing on ethnographic material, it explores how d…
Veganwashing Israel's Dirty Laundry? Animal Politics and Nationalism in Palestine-Israel
In popular media and public discourse, Israel has been referred to as ‘the first vegan nation’ and the ‘global centre for veganism’ because of the mainstreaming of veganism in the country in the 2010s. The article examines this triumphalist rhetoric and argues that animal welfare and veganism have been enrolled as a device to narrate the Israeli nation within terms of Jewish Israeli sovereignty. The contemporary cultural politics of veganism in I…
Actually existing intersectionality
Critiques of intersectionality as an additive and simplistic model of understanding identity politics has led to calls for renewed concepts that better grasp the complexity and potential of shared struggle. In this article, we contend that the experiences of activists attempting to practice an intersectional human and animal rights politics are a crucial yet overlooked resource in the development of such conceptual imaginaries and ethical practic…
‘That’s the beauty of it, it’s very simple!’ Animal rights and settler colonialism in Palestine–Israel
This article examines the contemporary animal rights movement in Palestine–Israel and compares Jewish Israeli activism to Palestinian activism to illuminate the ways in which the settler colonial context shapes animal politics. The article argues that human–animal relationships constitute a significant dimension through which settler colonialism is expressed, engaged with, and resisted. As such, drawing on ethnographic material, it explores how d…
Veganwashing Israel's Dirty Laundry? Animal Politics and Nationalism in Palestine-Israel
In popular media and public discourse, Israel has been referred to as ‘the first vegan nation’ and the ‘global centre for veganism’ because of the mainstreaming of veganism in the country in the 2010s. The article examines this triumphalist rhetoric and argues that animal welfare and veganism have been enrolled as a device to narrate the Israeli nation within terms of Jewish Israeli sovereignty. The contemporary cultural politics of veganism in I…
Place-making and its impact on health and wellbeing among recently resettled refugees in high income contexts
We identified three aspects of ‘place-making’ relevant to refugee health: material; psychosocial; and structural. • Place-making is negotiated through refugee agency, processes of inhabitation, and situated encounters, all of which impact health/wellbeing. • Poor access to safe housing and neighbourhoods, therapeutic leisure and green spaces, and racism worsen mental health among refugees. • Psychosocial aspects of belonging and strong family, an…
Exchanging of knowledge – lessons from implementation of a peer education program in Sydney, Australia
Introduction: Social housing residents often experience poorer health outcomes compared to the wider community due to factors such as social isolation, intergenerational disadvantage, trauma, poverty, stigma, limited health literacy, and barriers to accessing resources. Peer Educators provide a link between their communities, the health sector and the broader environment. Shared characteristics and experiences between peers and communities can en…
Actually existing intersectionality
Critiques of intersectionality as an additive and simplistic model of understanding identity politics has led to calls for renewed concepts that better grasp the complexity and potential of shared struggle. In this article, we contend that the experiences of activists attempting to practice an intersectional human and animal rights politics are a crucial yet overlooked resource in the development of such conceptual imaginaries and ethical practic…
By Residents, for Residents
Peer and community-based initiatives are becoming an increasingly important component of integrated care programs. Valuing the process as well as the outcomes and providing long-term timeframes and ongoing resources are critical to sustain change
Decolonising animal activism
Animal rights activism has been criticised in settler-colonial states for overlooking human rights abuses and shielding colonial powers. However, the efforts of animal rights activists to expand their political alliances with subaltern and colonised others are laden with tensions, stemming from the oppression and violence of settler-colonial projects. The steps that progressive non-Indigenous activists can take to support alliances with colonised…
Eating in the city
Urban planning increasingly recognises that built environments shape peoples’ health and wellbeing. As cities accommodate growing populations, understanding relationships between local neighbourhoods and health and wellbeing is essential to addressing disparities affecting migrants and producing equitable forms of multicultural co-existence. However, health policy can position forced migrants as passive recipients of information and services, whi…
Navigating health and social care systems
There is increasing impetus to help individuals navigate health and social care systems. Though the development and effectiveness of navigator roles have long been explored in health and sociological research, evaluations of navigation are typically narrow in focus and oriented to individual outcomes, quantitative metrics, or barriers and enablers in implementation. Investigating the structural effects of navigation, especially across disparate c…
Geographies of human-animal interactions (4 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Health care (3 works) · Human rights (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Colonialism (2 works) · Community Health and Development (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works)