Zvika Orr
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 672865 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Zvika Orr |
| PRENOMES | Zvika |
| SOBRENOME | Orr |
| ASSINATURA | ORR Z |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Jerusalem College of Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3953-5099 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2011 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Revisiting the Link Between Communal Context, Religiosity and Mortality
Loneliness as lack of solidarity
This paper explores the notion of loneliness as lack of solidarity in relations to Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel, and the diaspora. Loneliness as lack of solidarity is defined as lacking someone to identify with and/or lacking someone who is willing to assist while carrying a burden. We describe the mechanism of lack of identification using the concept of epistemic injustice. The paper suggests that art may ser…
Religious Disaffiliates’ Experiences and Challenges with Sex, Sexuality, and Body Image
Community engagement of underrepresented college students
The profession’s response to overt and covert threats to the ruling hegemony
This study examines the relationship between three sociological concepts in an architectural context: profession, hegemony, and government, focusing on times of crisis. The crisis is caused by two types of perceived threat to the hegemonic social order: one is overt and recognized by the government, and the other is covert and not officially acknowledged. In both cases, the threat has the potential to overturn the power hierarchy and thus damage …
Barriers to the Healthcare System Faced by Ultra-Orthodox Religious Disaffiliates
Many religious disaffiliates, similar to immigrants, experience health vulnerabilities. Yet, few studies address their ability to access the healthcare system. This article contributes to filling this void by examining the case of Israeli Jewish ultra-Orthodox disaffiliates. The study analyzes the barriers that hinder these disaffiliates' access to the healthcare system, adversely affecting their well-being. This research is based on 36 in-depth,…
Medical neutrality and structural competency in conflict zones
This article explores the meaning, manifestations, and ramifications of medical neutrality in conflict zones. We analyse how Israeli healthcare institutions and leaders responded to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021 and how they represented the role of the healthcare system in society and during conflict. Based on content analysis of documents, we found that healthcare institutions and leaders called for cessation of …
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department
Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Nursing Education
Background: In most nursing schools, Holocaust and genocide studies are not part of the curriculum. However, studying past horrors involving health care professionals is essential for forming a clear moral compass to navigate future nursing practice. This article analyzes a unique Holocaust and genocide curriculum for graduate nurse practitioner students and its effects on participants. Method: The students wrote reflective accounts, which were a…
Ultra-Orthodox Nursing Students’ Cultural Challenges Inside and Outside Their Community during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In line with findings that nurses from minority groups have an important role in making health services accessible to their community, our study aimed to identify the challenges ultra-Orthodox Jewish nurses faced during COVID-19 in their encounters with patients and health staff from other communities, as well as their own community. The ultra-Orthodox community is a highly religious group that maintains isolation from general society, a phenomen…
Social and structural determinants of emergency department use among Arab and Jewish patients in Jerusalem
The study illustrates the gaps that exist between the Arab and Jewish population in Israel. The findings demonstrated significant differences between populations in both health status and access to health services. In addition, an association was found in each ethnic group between different structural factors and repeat ED requests. This study supports previous theories and findings of the relationship between structural and social factors and pa…
Neutrality, conflict, and structural determinants of health in a Jerusalem emergency department
The normative demand for neutrality works to exclude discussion of the conflict from clinical spaces. The normative exclusion of politics is a vital but under-appreciated aspect of how political conflict operates as a structural determinant of health. Healthcare personnel, especially in the ED, should be trained in structural competency. This training may challenge the neglect of issues that need to be solved at the political level and enhance he…
Localised medical moralities
Organ trafficking is widely recognised as a human rights concern. Medical professionals play a decisive role in bringing international norms regarding organ trafficking into the local context as translators and localisers. In Israel, this localisation reflects the tensions and gaps between global and local values, moralities and beliefs. Based on in-depth interviews with 92 stakeholders, this article examines the Israeli medical professionals’ ap…
The Social Construction of Moral Perceptions and Public Policies Concerning Organ Trafficking in Israel 1 , 2
This article examines the sociocultural construction of the local moralities, practices, and public policies regarding the purchase, sale, and brokering of organs. Based on ethnographic study of the case of Israel, where the prevailing moral perceptions and public policies have been relatively tolerant toward the purchase and sale of organs, the article proposes a model of four main sources of justification underlying these perceptions and polici…
Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools
In recent years, there has been increased recognition of the significance and relevance of Holocaust studies to nurses. However, these studies are rarely integrated in the nursing curriculum, and even when they are, the focus is usually on healthcare personnel who collaborated with the Nazi regime. This article aims to bridge this gap by analyzing a comprehensive requisite curriculum on the Holocaust for graduate nursing students. We emphasize th…
The challenges and dilemmas of local translators of human rights
Translators of global liberal human rights ideas into religious conservative communities are intermediaries who occupy a liminal position. They are located at a complex crossroad of incompatible values and norms. This article examines the translators’ challenges and dilemmas that stem from this position. The article focuses on translators of human rights of people with disabilities in Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel as a case study. T…
The Tolerance Model for Promoting Structural Competency in Nursing
BACKGROUND: Structural competency is the trained ability to recognize how social, political, economic, and legal structures shape diseases and symptoms. Although structural competency has become an increasingly accepted framework for training and teaching, it usually has not addressed nursing students and has not included marginalized patients as trainers. METHOD: This article analyzes a structural competency training model for nursing students t…
Beyond control
This article analyzes the discursive process of criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel. The Israeli case illuminates the way that marginalized social groups are constructed as a criminal threat, thus becoming a focal point of moral panic. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews and observations, we assert that the criminalization of asylum seekers is facilitated by their portrayal as ‘infiltrators’ who are beyond state control. S…
Professions in periods of social change
This article examines how professions behave in periods of social change. The article considers whether professions take positions vis-à-vis broader social discourse, and explores the relationship between the professions’ positions and those of the government. The article examines these questions through the case of the Israeli architectural profession’s behavior after the 1967 war in both the newly occupied territories, over which Israeli contro…
Socially Engaged Ethnographic Research in Human Rights Organizations
Non-governmental organizations that promote human rights and social justice in domestic settings often serve as "translators" or intermediaries between transnational and local norms and practices. Conducting collaborative ethnography in these organizations entails particular dilemmas, opportunities, and challenges stemming from the ethnographer's entangled commitments. Based on five years of engaged fieldwork in an Israeli organization working fo…
Human rights NGOs in Israel
This article discusses the complex interrelations between human rights, memory, forgetting and denial by analysing the discourses and practices of Israeli human rights organisations with respect to the past of the Palestinian people, particularly the events that took place in 1948. It examines how and why Israeli organisations dialectically remember and repress elements of the local past, and align themselves with the prevailing national silencin…
The Adaptation of Human Rights Norms in Local Settings
This article seeks to contribute to the anthropological discussion on the practice of human rights. Scholars have suggested that human rights NGOs working to bring transnational notions of human rights into particular local settings must compromise these notions and adapt them to the local ones in order for them to be accepted by local communities. However, this article explains how an Israeli human rights NGO departs from the universal human rig…
"Translating Human Rights of the "Enemy
This article explores the practices, discourses and dilemmas of the Israeli human rights NGOs that are working to protect and promote the human rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This case can shed light on the complex process of "triangular translation" of human rights, which is distinct from other forms of human rights localization studied thus far. In this process, human rights NGOs translate international human rights norms o…
Imposed Politics of Cultural Differences
This article analyzes the processes by which multicultural discourses and practices are implemented and adapted in local settings. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork in an Israeli NGO that promotes economic and social rights, this work examines the micro-politics of multiculturalism and the complex uses of this concept by various Jewish and Arab actors in the organization. The research shows how multicultural notions concerning Arab cu…
Contested Homes
Professionals possess an authoritative and monopolistic position that rests on their exclusive knowledge and is reinforced by their normative ideology. However, in hegemonic processes professionals often serve also as “traditional intellectuals,” or agents who preserve the interests of those in power. This article focuses on a critical moment in which a threat is posed to both the professional status of architects and the established hegemonic or…
"Translating Human Rights of the "Enemy
This article explores the practices, discourses and dilemmas of the Israeli human rights NGOs that are working to protect and promote the human rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This case can shed light on the complex process of "triangular translation" of human rights, which is distinct from other forms of human rights localization studied thus far. In this process, human rights NGOs translate international human rights norms o…
Human rights NGOs in Israel
This article discusses the complex interrelations between human rights, memory, forgetting and denial by analysing the discourses and practices of Israeli human rights organisations with respect to the past of the Palestinian people, particularly the events that took place in 1948. It examines how and why Israeli organisations dialectically remember and repress elements of the local past, and align themselves with the prevailing national silencin…
Contested Homes
Professionals possess an authoritative and monopolistic position that rests on their exclusive knowledge and is reinforced by their normative ideology. However, in hegemonic processes professionals often serve also as “traditional intellectuals,” or agents who preserve the interests of those in power. This article focuses on a critical moment in which a threat is posed to both the professional status of architects and the established hegemonic or…
The Adaptation of Human Rights Norms in Local Settings
This article seeks to contribute to the anthropological discussion on the practice of human rights. Scholars have suggested that human rights NGOs working to bring transnational notions of human rights into particular local settings must compromise these notions and adapt them to the local ones in order for them to be accepted by local communities. However, this article explains how an Israeli human rights NGO departs from the universal human rig…
Beyond control
This article analyzes the discursive process of criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel. The Israeli case illuminates the way that marginalized social groups are constructed as a criminal threat, thus becoming a focal point of moral panic. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews and observations, we assert that the criminalization of asylum seekers is facilitated by their portrayal as ‘infiltrators’ who are beyond state control. S…
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department
Professions in periods of social change
This article examines how professions behave in periods of social change. The article considers whether professions take positions vis-à-vis broader social discourse, and explores the relationship between the professions’ positions and those of the government. The article examines these questions through the case of the Israeli architectural profession’s behavior after the 1967 war in both the newly occupied territories, over which Israeli contro…
Socially Engaged Ethnographic Research in Human Rights Organizations
Non-governmental organizations that promote human rights and social justice in domestic settings often serve as "translators" or intermediaries between transnational and local norms and practices. Conducting collaborative ethnography in these organizations entails particular dilemmas, opportunities, and challenges stemming from the ethnographer's entangled commitments. Based on five years of engaged fieldwork in an Israeli organization working fo…
Barriers to the Healthcare System Faced by Ultra-Orthodox Religious Disaffiliates
Many religious disaffiliates, similar to immigrants, experience health vulnerabilities. Yet, few studies address their ability to access the healthcare system. This article contributes to filling this void by examining the case of Israeli Jewish ultra-Orthodox disaffiliates. The study analyzes the barriers that hinder these disaffiliates' access to the healthcare system, adversely affecting their well-being. This research is based on 36 in-depth,…
Localised medical moralities
Organ trafficking is widely recognised as a human rights concern. Medical professionals play a decisive role in bringing international norms regarding organ trafficking into the local context as translators and localisers. In Israel, this localisation reflects the tensions and gaps between global and local values, moralities and beliefs. Based on in-depth interviews with 92 stakeholders, this article examines the Israeli medical professionals’ ap…
The Social Construction of Moral Perceptions and Public Policies Concerning Organ Trafficking in Israel 1 , 2
This article examines the sociocultural construction of the local moralities, practices, and public policies regarding the purchase, sale, and brokering of organs. Based on ethnographic study of the case of Israel, where the prevailing moral perceptions and public policies have been relatively tolerant toward the purchase and sale of organs, the article proposes a model of four main sources of justification underlying these perceptions and polici…
The challenges and dilemmas of local translators of human rights
Translators of global liberal human rights ideas into religious conservative communities are intermediaries who occupy a liminal position. They are located at a complex crossroad of incompatible values and norms. This article examines the translators’ challenges and dilemmas that stem from this position. The article focuses on translators of human rights of people with disabilities in Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel as a case study. T…
Imposed Politics of Cultural Differences
This article analyzes the processes by which multicultural discourses and practices are implemented and adapted in local settings. Based on five years of ethnographic fieldwork in an Israeli NGO that promotes economic and social rights, this work examines the micro-politics of multiculturalism and the complex uses of this concept by various Jewish and Arab actors in the organization. The research shows how multicultural notions concerning Arab cu…
Contested Homes
Professionals possess an authoritative and monopolistic position that rests on their exclusive knowledge and is reinforced by their normative ideology. However, in hegemonic processes professionals often serve also as “traditional intellectuals,” or agents who preserve the interests of those in power. This article focuses on a critical moment in which a threat is posed to both the professional status of architects and the established hegemonic or…
The Adaptation of Human Rights Norms in Local Settings
This article seeks to contribute to the anthropological discussion on the practice of human rights. Scholars have suggested that human rights NGOs working to bring transnational notions of human rights into particular local settings must compromise these notions and adapt them to the local ones in order for them to be accepted by local communities. However, this article explains how an Israeli human rights NGO departs from the universal human rig…
"Translating Human Rights of the "Enemy
This article explores the practices, discourses and dilemmas of the Israeli human rights NGOs that are working to protect and promote the human rights of Palestinians in the Occupied Territories. This case can shed light on the complex process of "triangular translation" of human rights, which is distinct from other forms of human rights localization studied thus far. In this process, human rights NGOs translate international human rights norms o…
Human rights NGOs in Israel
This article discusses the complex interrelations between human rights, memory, forgetting and denial by analysing the discourses and practices of Israeli human rights organisations with respect to the past of the Palestinian people, particularly the events that took place in 1948. It examines how and why Israeli organisations dialectically remember and repress elements of the local past, and align themselves with the prevailing national silencin…
Socially Engaged Ethnographic Research in Human Rights Organizations
Non-governmental organizations that promote human rights and social justice in domestic settings often serve as "translators" or intermediaries between transnational and local norms and practices. Conducting collaborative ethnography in these organizations entails particular dilemmas, opportunities, and challenges stemming from the ethnographer's entangled commitments. Based on five years of engaged fieldwork in an Israeli organization working fo…
Professions in periods of social change
This article examines how professions behave in periods of social change. The article considers whether professions take positions vis-à-vis broader social discourse, and explores the relationship between the professions’ positions and those of the government. The article examines these questions through the case of the Israeli architectural profession’s behavior after the 1967 war in both the newly occupied territories, over which Israeli contro…
The Tolerance Model for Promoting Structural Competency in Nursing
BACKGROUND: Structural competency is the trained ability to recognize how social, political, economic, and legal structures shape diseases and symptoms. Although structural competency has become an increasingly accepted framework for training and teaching, it usually has not addressed nursing students and has not included marginalized patients as trainers. METHOD: This article analyzes a structural competency training model for nursing students t…
Beyond control
This article analyzes the discursive process of criminalization of African asylum seekers in Israel. The Israeli case illuminates the way that marginalized social groups are constructed as a criminal threat, thus becoming a focal point of moral panic. Using content analysis, in-depth interviews and observations, we assert that the criminalization of asylum seekers is facilitated by their portrayal as ‘infiltrators’ who are beyond state control. S…
Teaching the Holocaust in Nursing Schools
In recent years, there has been increased recognition of the significance and relevance of Holocaust studies to nurses. However, these studies are rarely integrated in the nursing curriculum, and even when they are, the focus is usually on healthcare personnel who collaborated with the Nazi regime. This article aims to bridge this gap by analyzing a comprehensive requisite curriculum on the Holocaust for graduate nursing students. We emphasize th…
The challenges and dilemmas of local translators of human rights
Translators of global liberal human rights ideas into religious conservative communities are intermediaries who occupy a liminal position. They are located at a complex crossroad of incompatible values and norms. This article examines the translators’ challenges and dilemmas that stem from this position. The article focuses on translators of human rights of people with disabilities in Jewish ultra-Orthodox communities in Israel as a case study. T…
Holocaust and Genocide Studies in Nursing Education
Background: In most nursing schools, Holocaust and genocide studies are not part of the curriculum. However, studying past horrors involving health care professionals is essential for forming a clear moral compass to navigate future nursing practice. This article analyzes a unique Holocaust and genocide curriculum for graduate nurse practitioner students and its effects on participants. Method: The students wrote reflective accounts, which were a…
Ultra-Orthodox Nursing Students’ Cultural Challenges Inside and Outside Their Community during the Covid-19 Pandemic
In line with findings that nurses from minority groups have an important role in making health services accessible to their community, our study aimed to identify the challenges ultra-Orthodox Jewish nurses faced during COVID-19 in their encounters with patients and health staff from other communities, as well as their own community. The ultra-Orthodox community is a highly religious group that maintains isolation from general society, a phenomen…
Social and structural determinants of emergency department use among Arab and Jewish patients in Jerusalem
The study illustrates the gaps that exist between the Arab and Jewish population in Israel. The findings demonstrated significant differences between populations in both health status and access to health services. In addition, an association was found in each ethnic group between different structural factors and repeat ED requests. This study supports previous theories and findings of the relationship between structural and social factors and pa…
Neutrality, conflict, and structural determinants of health in a Jerusalem emergency department
The normative demand for neutrality works to exclude discussion of the conflict from clinical spaces. The normative exclusion of politics is a vital but under-appreciated aspect of how political conflict operates as a structural determinant of health. Healthcare personnel, especially in the ED, should be trained in structural competency. This training may challenge the neglect of issues that need to be solved at the political level and enhance he…
Localised medical moralities
Organ trafficking is widely recognised as a human rights concern. Medical professionals play a decisive role in bringing international norms regarding organ trafficking into the local context as translators and localisers. In Israel, this localisation reflects the tensions and gaps between global and local values, moralities and beliefs. Based on in-depth interviews with 92 stakeholders, this article examines the Israeli medical professionals’ ap…
The Social Construction of Moral Perceptions and Public Policies Concerning Organ Trafficking in Israel 1 , 2
This article examines the sociocultural construction of the local moralities, practices, and public policies regarding the purchase, sale, and brokering of organs. Based on ethnographic study of the case of Israel, where the prevailing moral perceptions and public policies have been relatively tolerant toward the purchase and sale of organs, the article proposes a model of four main sources of justification underlying these perceptions and polici…
Medical neutrality and structural competency in conflict zones
This article explores the meaning, manifestations, and ramifications of medical neutrality in conflict zones. We analyse how Israeli healthcare institutions and leaders responded to the escalation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in May 2021 and how they represented the role of the healthcare system in society and during conflict. Based on content analysis of documents, we found that healthcare institutions and leaders called for cessation of …
Biomedicine and the treatment of difference in a Jerusalem emergency department
Community engagement of underrepresented college students
The profession’s response to overt and covert threats to the ruling hegemony
This study examines the relationship between three sociological concepts in an architectural context: profession, hegemony, and government, focusing on times of crisis. The crisis is caused by two types of perceived threat to the hegemonic social order: one is overt and recognized by the government, and the other is covert and not officially acknowledged. In both cases, the threat has the potential to overturn the power hierarchy and thus damage …
Barriers to the Healthcare System Faced by Ultra-Orthodox Religious Disaffiliates
Many religious disaffiliates, similar to immigrants, experience health vulnerabilities. Yet, few studies address their ability to access the healthcare system. This article contributes to filling this void by examining the case of Israeli Jewish ultra-Orthodox disaffiliates. The study analyzes the barriers that hinder these disaffiliates' access to the healthcare system, adversely affecting their well-being. This research is based on 36 in-depth,…
Loneliness as lack of solidarity
This paper explores the notion of loneliness as lack of solidarity in relations to Palestinians living in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Israel, and the diaspora. Loneliness as lack of solidarity is defined as lacking someone to identify with and/or lacking someone who is willing to assist while carrying a burden. We describe the mechanism of lack of identification using the concept of epistemic injustice. The paper suggests that art may ser…
Religious Disaffiliates’ Experiences and Challenges with Sex, Sexuality, and Body Image
Revisiting the Link Between Communal Context, Religiosity and Mortality
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