Alejandro I Paz
Biographic Data
| ID | 86402 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alejandro I Paz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alejandro I |
| FAMILY NAME | Paz |
| SIGNATURE | PAZ A I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9448-1858 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 49 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Settling History in Silwan
This paper brings together two aspects of state formations that are rarely considered in unison, emblems and public secrets, and examines the semiotic processes that relate them. It considers these processes in tours given by a prominent organization, called El-Ad, that works to settle Jewish-Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem, and in particular in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan. El-Ad claims that it has returned the Israeli state to Sil…
Securitizing Communication
This article takes Judith T. Irvine's insights about the indeterminacy of participant roles and interpretive frameworks to explore how the increased use of social media in journalism leads to new quandaries for political actors. The dialogics of distributing or amalgamating participant roles provide for a particularly tricky domain of maneuver for journalists in India and Israel, where rightwing leaders seek to control news that disseminates rapi…
Uncertain Times
This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews p…
Communicating Citizenship
Citizenship has become a major topic in anthropology and the study of language (including sociolinguistics) since the early 1990s, with scholars in these fields especially examining the status and political claims of immigrants, refugees, indigenous groups, and other subaltern populations. This article argues that models of communication lie at the heart of debates about citizenship and explores two fundamentally communicative processes: first, t…
Latinos in Israel
Speaking like a citizen
"Introduction to "Teleologies of Structuralism
This piece introduces a set of lectures and responses given as part of a three year discussion about the fate of structuralism in the last century. These discussions mark a hundred years since the publication of structuralism's foundational document, Le cours de linguistique générale, formulated from the last courses taught by Ferdinand de Saussure. In this introduction, readers are reminded of the role played by Claude Lévi-Strauss to constitute…
Guiding Settler Jerusalem
This article examines how Elad, a religious Zionist settler group, attempts to reanimate biblical tales by transposing biblical text as part of tours for Jewish visitors to the City of David archaeological site in East Jerusalem. Since the early 1990s, Elad has created controversy by settling in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, provoking criticism from Israeli archaeologists and peace activists. In an effort to avoid 'politics' during tour…
The Shifting Genres of Middle Eastern Registers of Political Communication
The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor
Cross-culturally, the types of interactions that anthropologists have studied as "gossip" or "rumor" are opposed to types that constitute more authoritative texts. Instead of using participant structures to define such types of interactions, this opposition is used as a means to consider the evidential function of such descriptors. The discussion considers these issues from the perspective of non-Jewish, Latino labor migrants in Israel, whose usa…
The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor
Cross-culturally, the types of interactions that anthropologists have studied as "gossip" or "rumor" are opposed to types that constitute more authoritative texts. Instead of using participant structures to define such types of interactions, this opposition is used as a means to consider the evidential function of such descriptors. The discussion considers these issues from the perspective of non-Jewish, Latino labor migrants in Israel, whose usa…
Communicating Citizenship
Citizenship has become a major topic in anthropology and the study of language (including sociolinguistics) since the early 1990s, with scholars in these fields especially examining the status and political claims of immigrants, refugees, indigenous groups, and other subaltern populations. This article argues that models of communication lie at the heart of debates about citizenship and explores two fundamentally communicative processes: first, t…
Securitizing Communication
This article takes Judith T. Irvine's insights about the indeterminacy of participant roles and interpretive frameworks to explore how the increased use of social media in journalism leads to new quandaries for political actors. The dialogics of distributing or amalgamating participant roles provide for a particularly tricky domain of maneuver for journalists in India and Israel, where rightwing leaders seek to control news that disseminates rapi…
Uncertain Times
This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews p…
"Introduction to "Teleologies of Structuralism
This piece introduces a set of lectures and responses given as part of a three year discussion about the fate of structuralism in the last century. These discussions mark a hundred years since the publication of structuralism's foundational document, Le cours de linguistique générale, formulated from the last courses taught by Ferdinand de Saussure. In this introduction, readers are reminded of the role played by Claude Lévi-Strauss to constitute…
Speaking like a citizen
The Circulation of Chisme and Rumor
Cross-culturally, the types of interactions that anthropologists have studied as "gossip" or "rumor" are opposed to types that constitute more authoritative texts. Instead of using participant structures to define such types of interactions, this opposition is used as a means to consider the evidential function of such descriptors. The discussion considers these issues from the perspective of non-Jewish, Latino labor migrants in Israel, whose usa…
The Shifting Genres of Middle Eastern Registers of Political Communication
Guiding Settler Jerusalem
This article examines how Elad, a religious Zionist settler group, attempts to reanimate biblical tales by transposing biblical text as part of tours for Jewish visitors to the City of David archaeological site in East Jerusalem. Since the early 1990s, Elad has created controversy by settling in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan, provoking criticism from Israeli archaeologists and peace activists. In an effort to avoid 'politics' during tour…
Speaking like a citizen
"Introduction to "Teleologies of Structuralism
This piece introduces a set of lectures and responses given as part of a three year discussion about the fate of structuralism in the last century. These discussions mark a hundred years since the publication of structuralism's foundational document, Le cours de linguistique générale, formulated from the last courses taught by Ferdinand de Saussure. In this introduction, readers are reminded of the role played by Claude Lévi-Strauss to constitute…
Latinos in Israel
Communicating Citizenship
Citizenship has become a major topic in anthropology and the study of language (including sociolinguistics) since the early 1990s, with scholars in these fields especially examining the status and political claims of immigrants, refugees, indigenous groups, and other subaltern populations. This article argues that models of communication lie at the heart of debates about citizenship and explores two fundamentally communicative processes: first, t…
Uncertain Times
This year, linguistic and semiotic anthropologists are responding in particular to multiple sources of uncertainty and discuss a growing sense of crisis and anxiety across several different settings and contexts. The politics of truth and the uncertainty about the future, as well as the shifts due to new communicative technologies, are well represented in this last year of publications. To consider this collective response, this article reviews p…
Securitizing Communication
This article takes Judith T. Irvine's insights about the indeterminacy of participant roles and interpretive frameworks to explore how the increased use of social media in journalism leads to new quandaries for political actors. The dialogics of distributing or amalgamating participant roles provide for a particularly tricky domain of maneuver for journalists in India and Israel, where rightwing leaders seek to control news that disseminates rapi…
Settling History in Silwan
This paper brings together two aspects of state formations that are rarely considered in unison, emblems and public secrets, and examines the semiotic processes that relate them. It considers these processes in tours given by a prominent organization, called El-Ad, that works to settle Jewish-Israelis in occupied East Jerusalem, and in particular in the Palestinian neighborhood of Silwan. El-Ad claims that it has returned the Israeli state to Sil…
Sociology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (3 works)