P Motzafi-Haller
Biographic Data
| ID | 7648 |
|---|---|
| NAME | P Motzafi-Haller |
| GIVEN NAMES | P |
| FAMILY NAME | Motzafi-Haller |
| SIGNATURE | MOTZAFI-HALLER P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8799-7613 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 186 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Blonde makes you strong: Embodiment, intersubjectivity, and feminist reflexivity
Drawing on theoretical discussions that explore embodiment as a critical realm for the articulation of subjugated agency, I focus in this paper on the manner in which hair color has become a visual sign, a code that marks social boundaries and gendered ethno-class identities in contemporary Israel. Empirically, this essay aims to explore the manner in which Mizrahi women craft their own subjectivity in relation to dominant discourses through thei…
Writing Birthright: On Native Anthropologists and the Politics of Representation
The practice of "natives studying natives" is an entirely new idea in anthropology. Earlier discussions written by anthropologists self-identified as "native" or "ethno" scholars, have been concerned largely with the methodological aspects of such autoethnographic work - whether one's native familiarity with the language, the unspoken cultural codes of the community, or one's social ties within the research site facilitated or hindered one's rese…
Understanding Early Pregnancies: Sociocultural Factors of Teenage Childbearing in Gaborone, Botswana
The potential risk of being exposed to HIV/AIDS has structured the ways teenage or out-of-wedlock pregnancies are studied and treated in Botswana. We used feminist ethnographic research methods which focus on the narratives of young women and their social networks to understand this phenomenon. Looking at the issue from the adolescent girls' perspective reveals that such pregnancies have always existed, and their continued existence can be attrib…
"Whose House Is This?" Gendered (Dis)belongings, Homemaking, and Displacement in Israel's Rabbinic Courts
This article explores how space, gender, and religion construct a politics of belonging and how it may be transformative and transformed. Our case study suggests that being at home and displaced can be experienced simultaneously within the same space. We understand these experiences to be processual, interactive, and culturally contingent. We conceptualize “at home” and “displaced” as mutually constituted theoretical signifiers not limited to ter…
International Development Aid and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge: Comparing Israeli and Brazilian Experiences in Africa
The face of development aid: Volunteers and their hosts in southern Israel
The current scholarship on development aid has asserted that a “transformation” of development, one that “puts people first”, is presently taking place in the particular form of volunteer aid. In southern Israel, this claim is evident in recent attempts to “strengthen” depressed “development town” communities through a movement that combines Zionist settlement with the volunteer aid of university students. Based on ethnographic work in the develo…
Eritrean Women Asylum Seekers in Israel: From a Politics of Rescue to Feminist Accountability
Journal Article Eritrean Women Asylum Seekers in Israel: From a Politics of Rescue to Feminist Accountability Get access Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher, Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pnina Motzafi-Haller Pnina Motzafi-Haller Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, B…
Diversity in an Israeli intersectional analysis: The salience of employment arrangements and inter-personal relationships
Emotional politics in cleaning work: The case of Israel
Emotional politics instil insecurity and doubt in working-class individuals. Researchers examining social degradation through (bad) employment or other stigma have demonstrated the exclusionary impact of this process. Some suggest that individuals respond to such emotional politics and other types of exclusion by identity-management strategies aiming at a sense of worth, whereas others have found self-isolation to dominate. Here we analyse the em…
My Life? There Is Not Much to Tell: On Voice, Silence and Agency in Interviews With First-Generation Mizrahi Jewish Women Immigrants to Israel
From early 1980s, a large body of feminist literature has been attempting to account for and explain the particular mix of fragmented speech and multiple silences characteristic of interviews with subaltern subjects.The authors offer an epistemological challenge to these orthodoxies on two levels. First, the authors challenge the very premise that views the accounts produced by marginalized research participants as failures that need to be overco…
When Classic Ethnographic Work Is Made Impossible: The Human Politics of Research in India
In this personal account, I describe the first days of research I begun in Rajasthan, in India in the winter of 2008. This graphic narrative of my encounters with my research interlocutors includes not only what I learned from my research subjects, a group of multiply marginalized people known as the Banjara. It also depicts my conversations with academic colleagues and assistants, local officials, and translators. It describes the human politics…
Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
Foreword Introduction Fragmented Lives Gender, Conjugality, and Family Making a Living, Making a Home Historical Narratives as Identity Discourses The Politics of Space and Place Social Space, Collective Identity, and Moments of Resistance Ethnecizing Gender, Engendering the Ethnic Other Conclusions Bibliography Index
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
Scholarship, Identity, and Power: Mizrahi Women in Israel
Beyond Textual Analysis: Practice, Interacting Discourses, and the Experience of Distinction in Botswana
The Politics of Space and Place in the Tswapong Region, Central Botswana
Cet article retrace les changements observés ces deux dernières décennies dans le mode de création des établissements humains dans le Botswana central de l’Est. Il s’intéresse à la manière dont l’éspace social a été redéfini quand de nouvelles communautés villageoises ont émergé dans des régions auparavant identifiées comme zones agricoles. Dans leur effort visant à redéfinir leurs droits respectifs à la terre, les divers groupes de la région n’o…
Power, identity, and history in central Botswana
This analysis offers an examination of two larger theoretical questions. The first is the question of theorizing local‐global relations; the second concerns the value of the concept of resistance. The essay describes the emergence of a new village community at the rural periphery of eastern Botswana. In exploring in great detail the complex struggles that have constituted the local politics in this rural periphery and the engagement of such local…
The Kua: Life and Soul of the Central Kalahari Bushmen
Historical narratives as political discourses of identity
In December 1979, a group of twelve history students from the University of Botswana carried out one week of oral interviews in the Tswapong Hills region of east-central Botswana. Their teacher, David Kiyaga-Mulindwa, wrote that the aim was twofold: 'To train UBS history undergraduates in field methods currently used in African historical research' and 'to contribute to the history of the Batswapong through the collection and analysis of oral tra…
When Bushmen are known as Basarwa: Gender, ethnicity, and differentiation in rural Botswana
Recent scholarship on the Bushmen (San) and other hunter-gatherers calls for an understanding of the way specific historical circumstances give rise to a variety of modes of livelihood and strategies of survival of groups. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of cultural and political dimensions of this process. This article is concerned with a group of "Basarwa" (a Setswana equivalent to "Bushmen") who have been permanent resi…
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
My Life? There Is Not Much to Tell: On Voice, Silence and Agency in Interviews With First-Generation Mizrahi Jewish Women Immigrants to Israel
From early 1980s, a large body of feminist literature has been attempting to account for and explain the particular mix of fragmented speech and multiple silences characteristic of interviews with subaltern subjects.The authors offer an epistemological challenge to these orthodoxies on two levels. First, the authors challenge the very premise that views the accounts produced by marginalized research participants as failures that need to be overco…
Emotional politics in cleaning work: The case of Israel
Emotional politics instil insecurity and doubt in working-class individuals. Researchers examining social degradation through (bad) employment or other stigma have demonstrated the exclusionary impact of this process. Some suggest that individuals respond to such emotional politics and other types of exclusion by identity-management strategies aiming at a sense of worth, whereas others have found self-isolation to dominate. Here we analyse the em…
When Bushmen are known as Basarwa: Gender, ethnicity, and differentiation in rural Botswana
Recent scholarship on the Bushmen (San) and other hunter-gatherers calls for an understanding of the way specific historical circumstances give rise to a variety of modes of livelihood and strategies of survival of groups. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of cultural and political dimensions of this process. This article is concerned with a group of "Basarwa" (a Setswana equivalent to "Bushmen") who have been permanent resi…
Eritrean Women Asylum Seekers in Israel: From a Politics of Rescue to Feminist Accountability
Journal Article Eritrean Women Asylum Seekers in Israel: From a Politics of Rescue to Feminist Accountability Get access Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher, Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pnina Motzafi-Haller Pnina Motzafi-Haller Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, B…
Diversity in an Israeli intersectional analysis: The salience of employment arrangements and inter-personal relationships
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
Foreword Introduction Fragmented Lives Gender, Conjugality, and Family Making a Living, Making a Home Historical Narratives as Identity Discourses The Politics of Space and Place Social Space, Collective Identity, and Moments of Resistance Ethnecizing Gender, Engendering the Ethnic Other Conclusions Bibliography Index
Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual
"Whose House Is This?" Gendered (Dis)belongings, Homemaking, and Displacement in Israel's Rabbinic Courts
This article explores how space, gender, and religion construct a politics of belonging and how it may be transformative and transformed. Our case study suggests that being at home and displaced can be experienced simultaneously within the same space. We understand these experiences to be processual, interactive, and culturally contingent. We conceptualize “at home” and “displaced” as mutually constituted theoretical signifiers not limited to ter…
Beyond Textual Analysis: Practice, Interacting Discourses, and the Experience of Distinction in Botswana
Historical narratives as political discourses of identity
In December 1979, a group of twelve history students from the University of Botswana carried out one week of oral interviews in the Tswapong Hills region of east-central Botswana. Their teacher, David Kiyaga-Mulindwa, wrote that the aim was twofold: 'To train UBS history undergraduates in field methods currently used in African historical research' and 'to contribute to the history of the Batswapong through the collection and analysis of oral tra…
Power, identity, and history in central Botswana
This analysis offers an examination of two larger theoretical questions. The first is the question of theorizing local‐global relations; the second concerns the value of the concept of resistance. The essay describes the emergence of a new village community at the rural periphery of eastern Botswana. In exploring in great detail the complex struggles that have constituted the local politics in this rural periphery and the engagement of such local…
Foragers, Genuine or Spurious: Situating the Kalahari San in History [and Comments and Reply]
Historical narratives as political discourses of identity
In December 1979, a group of twelve history students from the University of Botswana carried out one week of oral interviews in the Tswapong Hills region of east-central Botswana. Their teacher, David Kiyaga-Mulindwa, wrote that the aim was twofold: 'To train UBS history undergraduates in field methods currently used in African historical research' and 'to contribute to the history of the Batswapong through the collection and analysis of oral tra…
When Bushmen are known as Basarwa: Gender, ethnicity, and differentiation in rural Botswana
Recent scholarship on the Bushmen (San) and other hunter-gatherers calls for an understanding of the way specific historical circumstances give rise to a variety of modes of livelihood and strategies of survival of groups. However, little attention has been paid to the analysis of cultural and political dimensions of this process. This article is concerned with a group of "Basarwa" (a Setswana equivalent to "Bushmen") who have been permanent resi…
The Kua: Life and Soul of the Central Kalahari Bushmen
Power, identity, and history in central Botswana
This analysis offers an examination of two larger theoretical questions. The first is the question of theorizing local‐global relations; the second concerns the value of the concept of resistance. The essay describes the emergence of a new village community at the rural periphery of eastern Botswana. In exploring in great detail the complex struggles that have constituted the local politics in this rural periphery and the engagement of such local…
The Politics of Space and Place in the Tswapong Region, Central Botswana
Cet article retrace les changements observés ces deux dernières décennies dans le mode de création des établissements humains dans le Botswana central de l’Est. Il s’intéresse à la manière dont l’éspace social a été redéfini quand de nouvelles communautés villageoises ont émergé dans des régions auparavant identifiées comme zones agricoles. Dans leur effort visant à redéfinir leurs droits respectifs à la terre, les divers groupes de la région n’o…
Beyond Textual Analysis: Practice, Interacting Discourses, and the Experience of Distinction in Botswana
Scholarship, Identity, and Power: Mizrahi Women in Israel
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
Foreword Introduction Fragmented Lives Gender, Conjugality, and Family Making a Living, Making a Home Historical Narratives as Identity Discourses The Politics of Space and Place Social Space, Collective Identity, and Moments of Resistance Ethnecizing Gender, Engendering the Ethnic Other Conclusions Bibliography Index
Fragmented Worlds, Coherent Lives: The Politics of Difference in Botswana
When Classic Ethnographic Work Is Made Impossible: The Human Politics of Research in India
In this personal account, I describe the first days of research I begun in Rajasthan, in India in the winter of 2008. This graphic narrative of my encounters with my research interlocutors includes not only what I learned from my research subjects, a group of multiply marginalized people known as the Banjara. It also depicts my conversations with academic colleagues and assistants, local officials, and translators. It describes the human politics…
Shifting Ethnic Boundaries and Inequality in Israel: Or, How the Polish Peddler Became a German Intellectual
Diversity in an Israeli intersectional analysis: The salience of employment arrangements and inter-personal relationships
Emotional politics in cleaning work: The case of Israel
Emotional politics instil insecurity and doubt in working-class individuals. Researchers examining social degradation through (bad) employment or other stigma have demonstrated the exclusionary impact of this process. Some suggest that individuals respond to such emotional politics and other types of exclusion by identity-management strategies aiming at a sense of worth, whereas others have found self-isolation to dominate. Here we analyse the em…
My Life? There Is Not Much to Tell: On Voice, Silence and Agency in Interviews With First-Generation Mizrahi Jewish Women Immigrants to Israel
From early 1980s, a large body of feminist literature has been attempting to account for and explain the particular mix of fragmented speech and multiple silences characteristic of interviews with subaltern subjects.The authors offer an epistemological challenge to these orthodoxies on two levels. First, the authors challenge the very premise that views the accounts produced by marginalized research participants as failures that need to be overco…
Eritrean Women Asylum Seekers in Israel: From a Politics of Rescue to Feminist Accountability
Journal Article Eritrean Women Asylum Seekers in Israel: From a Politics of Rescue to Feminist Accountability Get access Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher, Habtom M. Ghebrezghiabher Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Sde Boker, Israel [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Pnina Motzafi-Haller Pnina Motzafi-Haller Blaustein Institutes for Desert Research, B…
The face of development aid: Volunteers and their hosts in southern Israel
The current scholarship on development aid has asserted that a “transformation” of development, one that “puts people first”, is presently taking place in the particular form of volunteer aid. In southern Israel, this claim is evident in recent attempts to “strengthen” depressed “development town” communities through a movement that combines Zionist settlement with the volunteer aid of university students. Based on ethnographic work in the develo…
International Development Aid and the Production of Anthropological Knowledge: Comparing Israeli and Brazilian Experiences in Africa
"Whose House Is This?" Gendered (Dis)belongings, Homemaking, and Displacement in Israel's Rabbinic Courts
This article explores how space, gender, and religion construct a politics of belonging and how it may be transformative and transformed. Our case study suggests that being at home and displaced can be experienced simultaneously within the same space. We understand these experiences to be processual, interactive, and culturally contingent. We conceptualize “at home” and “displaced” as mutually constituted theoretical signifiers not limited to ter…
Writing Birthright: On Native Anthropologists and the Politics of Representation
The practice of "natives studying natives" is an entirely new idea in anthropology. Earlier discussions written by anthropologists self-identified as "native" or "ethno" scholars, have been concerned largely with the methodological aspects of such autoethnographic work - whether one's native familiarity with the language, the unspoken cultural codes of the community, or one's social ties within the research site facilitated or hindered one's rese…
Understanding Early Pregnancies: Sociocultural Factors of Teenage Childbearing in Gaborone, Botswana
The potential risk of being exposed to HIV/AIDS has structured the ways teenage or out-of-wedlock pregnancies are studied and treated in Botswana. We used feminist ethnographic research methods which focus on the narratives of young women and their social networks to understand this phenomenon. Looking at the issue from the adolescent girls' perspective reveals that such pregnancies have always existed, and their continued existence can be attrib…
Blonde makes you strong: Embodiment, intersubjectivity, and feminist reflexivity
Drawing on theoretical discussions that explore embodiment as a critical realm for the articulation of subjugated agency, I focus in this paper on the manner in which hair color has become a visual sign, a code that marks social boundaries and gendered ethno-class identities in contemporary Israel. Empirically, this essay aims to explore the manner in which Mizrahi women craft their own subjectivity in relation to dominant discourses through thei…
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