D Rabinowitz
Biographic Data
| ID | 8700 |
|---|---|
| NAME | D Rabinowitz |
| GIVEN NAMES | D |
| FAMILY NAME | Rabinowitz |
| SIGNATURE | RABINOWITZ D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-4827-6028 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 38 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 219 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Palestinian-Israeli Towns
Responses
Community Studies: Anthropological
Resistance and the City
The mass demonstrations that took place in 2011 in major cities worldwide, dubbed here Contemporary Metropolitan Protest (CMP), varied in terms of the issues tackled and the political efficacy attained, but featured similarities in style, mobilization patterns and the use of traditional and social media. The similarities explain the tendency among commentators and researchers to treat CMP as a coherent category. The variation, on the other hand, …
Residual residential space as commons
Research on common pool resources (CPR), which began with a focus on rural communities and their defining agricultural practices, shifted recently also to the urban context, looking at community gardens, city parks and other recreational facilities. This article extends the use of CPR theory to residential complexes. Courtyards, lawns, lobbies, cellars, stairwells and other parts that fall outside individual apartments are aggregated as a new sub…
Climate Injustice: CO 2 from Domestic Electricity Consumption and Private Car Use by Income Decile
Environmental justice is primarily concerned with uneven distribution of environmental harms and with the consequences such inequality often has for individual and community well-being, development, and growth. Recent expansion in quantity and improvement in quality of data on current and historic greenhouse gas (GHG) emission levels by country has drawn attention to differentiated national responsibilities for the intensification of the atmosphe…
Residual residential space as commons
Research on common pool resources (CPR), which began with a focus on rural communities and their defining agricultural practices, shifted recently also to the urban context, looking at community gardens, city parks and other recreational facilities. This article extends the use of CPR theory to residential complexes. Courtyards, lawns, lobbies, cellars, stairwells and other parts that fall outside individual apartments are aggregated as a new sub…
The Ethnographic Arriving of Palestine
This essay identifies four different modes of ethnographic engagement with Palestine since the nineteenth century: biblical, Oriental, absent, and poststructural. Focusing on the epistemic and political dynamics in which the recent admissibility of Palestine as a legitimate ethnographic subject is embedded, we highlight two conditions. One is the demystification of states and hegemonic groups that control them, and the concomitant legitimacy of g…
Oriental Othering and National Identity: A Review of Early Israeli Anthropological Studies of Palestinians
Ostrom, the commons, and the anthropology of "earthlings" and their atmosphere
Elinor Ostrom, joint winner (with Oliver Williamson) of the 2009 Nobel prize in economic sciences, was quickly recognized by anthropologists as an honorary member of the tribe, and as someone whose achievements are a tribute to the discipline (see Baumard 2009; Wutich and Smth 2009). A political scientist by training, Ostrom was not formally trained as an anthropologist or an ethnographer. This notwithstanding, her commitment to empirical field r…
The Right to Refuse: Abject Theory and the Return of Palestinian Refugees
Reconfiguring the “Mixed Town”: Urban Transformations of Ethnonational Relations in Palestine and Israel
Studies of Middle Eastern urbanism have traditionally been guided by a limited repertoire of tropes, many of which emphasize antiquity, confinement, and religiosity. Notions of the old city, the walled city, the casbah, the native quarter, and the medina, sometimes subsumed in the quintessential “Islamic city,” have all been part of Western scholarship's long-standing fascination with the region. Etched in emblematic “holy cities” like Jerusalem,…
Natives with jackets and degrees. Othering, objectification and the role of Palestinians and the role of Palestinians in the co-existence field in Israel1
Children of Palestine: Experiencing forced migration in the Middle East - Editors by Dawn Chatty & Gillian Lewando Hundt
Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
This historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa, the book merges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of the conflict, from the 1920s to…
Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
This highly original historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa, Coffins on Our Shoulders merges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of…
Belated Occupation, Advanced Militarization: Edward Said's Critique of the Oslo Process Revisited
Monk: An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict
(2004). Monk: An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 110-112
Borders and Their Discontents: Israel’s Green Line, Arabness and Unilateral Separation
This essay looks at the central role played by the proximity of Arabs – as individuals, as an essentialised culture and as a political entity – in the formation and consolidation of an idealised Israeli identity. Informed by recent theoretical preoccupations with genealogies of Othering (Baumann 2002; Gingrich 2002), and by notions connecting national projects and emerging notions of identity (Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983; Anderson 1991), I look at b…
Oriental Othering and National Identity: A review of Early Israeli Anthropological Studies of Palestinians
Israeli culturalism, like Israeli identity at large, is premised on a two-pronged negation-that of the Jewish diaspora and that of the Arab East. Its emergence was assisted, directly or indirectly, by academic anthropology. The formative cohort of Israeli anthropology, mainly male researchers who came of academic age in the 1960s and 1970s, displayed stronger preoccupation with the Palestinian citizens of Israel than is normally recognized. This …
Race from the Bottom of the Tribe That Never Was: Segmentary Narratives Amongst the Ghawarna of Galilee
Members of a low-status Arab group in Galilee, said to be of Bedouin origins and known by neighboring Palestinians as Ghawarna (sing. Ghorani), recently tend to play down this affiliation, some to the extent of denying that a group called Ghawarna ever existed. This phenomenon is evaluated against the better-known tendency in Arab cultures to embellish, glorify, and sometimes invent a unified past. A distinction is made between competition at the…
Natives with jackets and degrees. Othering, objectification and the role of Palestinians in the co-existence field in Israel
Le terrain de la coexistence en Israel ne correspond guere plus qu'a celui d'un deploiement assez lâche d'ONG et d'organisations officiellement subventionnees. Le mouvement principal initie dans les annees quatre vingt procede de reunions associant juifs israeliens et palestiniens citoyens d'Israel au niveau des ecoles secondaires. Il s'agit a premiere vue d'un engagement mutuel permettant aux acteurs des deux bords de realiser une experience imm…
Strife in Nazareth: Struggles Over the Religious Meaning of Place
This article is an ethnographic account of the two-year siege by Muslim activists of the plot adjoining a shrine in Nazareth, and the ensuing efforts by a variety of local, regional and national players to bring the crisis to a peaceful resolution before the historic visit of Pope John Paul II in March 2000. It documents the efficacy of the consecration of space by personal sacrifice and collective passion, and demonstrates the roles played by lo…
The Palestinian citizens of Israel, the concept of trapped minority and the discourse of transnationalism in anthropology
Elastic, adaptable and vibrant, minorities often stretch across state borders in ways traditional concepts of states and nations fail to acknowledge, let alone theorize. The discourse of transnationalism helps to dislodge the study of minorities from the analytical straight-jacket of the state. The concept of 'trapped minority', developed herein from an analysis of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, adds to this debate. A trapped minority is a s…
Demilitarized, Then Dispossessed: The Kirad Bedouins of the Hula Valley in the Context of Syrian–israeli Relations
The expected renewal of peace negotiations between Syria and Israel is likely to bring up again an issue that has been the central component of territorial conflict between the two since 1948: sovereignty in what were, between 1949 and 1967, three demilitarized zones (DMZs) declared on the Israeli side of the Syrian–Israeli frontier. The DMZs, the regime that maintained them, and the significance they had for Syrian–Israeli relations have been st…
The Palestinian citizens of Israel, the concept of trapped minority and the discourse of transnationalism in anthropology
Elastic, adaptable and vibrant, minorities often stretch across state borders in ways traditional concepts of states and nations fail to acknowledge, let alone theorize. The discourse of transnationalism helps to dislodge the study of minorities from the analytical straight-jacket of the state. The concept of 'trapped minority', developed herein from an analysis of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, adds to this debate. A trapped minority is a s…
The Ethnographic Arriving of Palestine
This essay identifies four different modes of ethnographic engagement with Palestine since the nineteenth century: biblical, Oriental, absent, and poststructural. Focusing on the epistemic and political dynamics in which the recent admissibility of Palestine as a legitimate ethnographic subject is embedded, we highlight two conditions. One is the demystification of states and hegemonic groups that control them, and the concomitant legitimacy of g…
Postnational Palestine/Israel? Globalization, Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Reconfiguring the “Mixed Town”: Urban Transformations of Ethnonational Relations in Palestine and Israel
Studies of Middle Eastern urbanism have traditionally been guided by a limited repertoire of tropes, many of which emphasize antiquity, confinement, and religiosity. Notions of the old city, the walled city, the casbah, the native quarter, and the medina, sometimes subsumed in the quintessential “Islamic city,” have all been part of Western scholarship's long-standing fascination with the region. Etched in emblematic “holy cities” like Jerusalem,…
Resistance and the City
The mass demonstrations that took place in 2011 in major cities worldwide, dubbed here Contemporary Metropolitan Protest (CMP), varied in terms of the issues tackled and the political efficacy attained, but featured similarities in style, mobilization patterns and the use of traditional and social media. The similarities explain the tendency among commentators and researchers to treat CMP as a coherent category. The variation, on the other hand, …
Themes in the Economy of the Bedouin of South Sinai in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Writers analyzing recent economic change among the Bedouin of South Sinai have not yet investigated institutions and events beyond the limits of their informants' memories. Marx, Perevolotsky, and Ben David refer, quite rightly, to the period following the Second World War as a time of economic change in Sinai. They note that in that period tribesmen tended to become unskilled laborers in new enterprises such as mining, road-building, and service…
Natives with jackets and degrees. Othering, objectification and the role of Palestinians and the role of Palestinians in the co-existence field in Israel1
Trust and the Attribution of Rationality: Inverted Roles Amongst Palestinian Arabs and Jews in Israel
Strife in Nazareth: Struggles Over the Religious Meaning of Place
This article is an ethnographic account of the two-year siege by Muslim activists of the plot adjoining a shrine in Nazareth, and the ensuing efforts by a variety of local, regional and national players to bring the crisis to a peaceful resolution before the historic visit of Pope John Paul II in March 2000. It documents the efficacy of the consecration of space by personal sacrifice and collective passion, and demonstrates the roles played by lo…
Demilitarized, Then Dispossessed: The Kirad Bedouins of the Hula Valley in the Context of Syrian–israeli Relations
The expected renewal of peace negotiations between Syria and Israel is likely to bring up again an issue that has been the central component of territorial conflict between the two since 1948: sovereignty in what were, between 1949 and 1967, three demilitarized zones (DMZs) declared on the Israeli side of the Syrian–Israeli frontier. The DMZs, the regime that maintained them, and the significance they had for Syrian–Israeli relations have been st…
Natives with jackets and degrees. Othering, objectification and the role of Palestinians in the co-existence field in Israel
Le terrain de la coexistence en Israel ne correspond guere plus qu'a celui d'un deploiement assez lâche d'ONG et d'organisations officiellement subventionnees. Le mouvement principal initie dans les annees quatre vingt procede de reunions associant juifs israeliens et palestiniens citoyens d'Israel au niveau des ecoles secondaires. Il s'agit a premiere vue d'un engagement mutuel permettant aux acteurs des deux bords de realiser une experience imm…
The Common Memory of Loss: Political Mobilization among Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Palestinians tend to imagine themselves primarily as a community of loss and deprivation. The role of this key idiom in political mobilization is examined through a study of the performance of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the 1988-89 municipal election campaign in Natzerat Illit, a predominantly Israeli new town in Galilee. While not of the honor and shame variety, the political agenda adopted by the Palestinian actors tended to emphasize pr…
To Sell or Not to Sell? Theory Versus Practice, Public Versus Private, and the Failure of Liberalism: The case of Israel and its Palestinian citizens
Two themes are explored. The first is junctions whereby personal interests contradict dominant values. The Israeli residents of Natzerat Illit, a new town in Galilee, conform with mainstream Zionist narratives when they view the presence of Palestinian residents in their town as unacceptable. At the same time, selling properties to incoming Palestinians is irresistibly Iucrative and has become a norm. The mismatch between theory and practice and …
Race from the Bottom of the Tribe That Never Was: Segmentary Narratives Amongst the Ghawarna of Galilee
Members of a low-status Arab group in Galilee, said to be of Bedouin origins and known by neighboring Palestinians as Ghawarna (sing. Ghorani), recently tend to play down this affiliation, some to the extent of denying that a group called Ghawarna ever existed. This phenomenon is evaluated against the better-known tendency in Arab cultures to embellish, glorify, and sometimes invent a unified past. A distinction is made between competition at the…
The Right to Refuse: Abject Theory and the Return of Palestinian Refugees
The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village
The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village. Susan Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. xxv. 294 pp., maps, illustrations, references, index
The visualization of a national narrative of space
Themes in the Economy of the Bedouin of South Sinai in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Writers analyzing recent economic change among the Bedouin of South Sinai have not yet investigated institutions and events beyond the limits of their informants' memories. Marx, Perevolotsky, and Ben David refer, quite rightly, to the period following the Second World War as a time of economic change in Sinai. They note that in that period tribesmen tended to become unskilled laborers in new enterprises such as mining, road-building, and service…
Trust and the Attribution of Rationality: Inverted Roles Amongst Palestinian Arabs and Jews in Israel
Through the Veil of Exile . 1992. 86 minutes, color. A film by David Ben‐Schitrit
The Common Memory of Loss: Political Mobilization among Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Palestinians tend to imagine themselves primarily as a community of loss and deprivation. The role of this key idiom in political mobilization is examined through a study of the performance of Palestinian citizens of Israel in the 1988-89 municipal election campaign in Natzerat Illit, a predominantly Israeli new town in Galilee. While not of the honor and shame variety, the political agenda adopted by the Palestinian actors tended to emphasize pr…
To Sell or Not to Sell? Theory Versus Practice, Public Versus Private, and the Failure of Liberalism: The case of Israel and its Palestinian citizens
Two themes are explored. The first is junctions whereby personal interests contradict dominant values. The Israeli residents of Natzerat Illit, a new town in Galilee, conform with mainstream Zionist narratives when they view the presence of Palestinian residents in their town as unacceptable. At the same time, selling properties to incoming Palestinians is irresistibly Iucrative and has become a norm. The mismatch between theory and practice and …
The visualization of a national narrative of space
Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee
A sophisticated and engaging ethnographic account of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, and the first since the 1970s, Overlooking Nazareth examines specific situations of friction, conflict and co-operation in Natzerat Illit. This Israeli new town is built on formerly Palestinian land, just outside the biblical town of Nazareth, and has a population of 25,000 Jewish Israelis and 3,500 Palestinians. Dr Rabinowitz has written widely on the curren…
Citizenship and the State: A Comparative Study of Citizenship Legislation in Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria and Lebanon
Reviewed by Uri Davis embarks upon an interesting and daunting project: tracing the origins and cur- rent status of citizenship in four Middle Eastern states and in the Palestinian proto-state. The result is a well-researched and well-written book; a major contribution to better understanding not only of the Palestinian predicament, but also of statehood and nationalism in the Middle East at large. The author's preoccupation with the issue of cit…
Overlooking Nazareth: The Ethnography of Exclusion in Nazareth
Overlooking Nazareth. The Ethnography of Exclusion in Galilee
Demilitarized, Then Dispossessed: The Kirad Bedouins of the Hula Valley in the Context of Syrian–israeli Relations
The expected renewal of peace negotiations between Syria and Israel is likely to bring up again an issue that has been the central component of territorial conflict between the two since 1948: sovereignty in what were, between 1949 and 1967, three demilitarized zones (DMZs) declared on the Israeli side of the Syrian–Israeli frontier. The DMZs, the regime that maintained them, and the significance they had for Syrian–Israeli relations have been st…
Fifty Years, Five Crossings, More to Come The Kirad Bedouins of Galilee and the Israeli-Syrian Border, 1948
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The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village
The Object of Memory: Arab and Jew Narrate the Palestinian Village. Susan Slyomovics. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. xxv. 294 pp., maps, illustrations, references, index
Postnational Palestine/Israel? Globalization, Diaspora, Transnationalism, and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Natives with jackets and degrees. Othering, objectification and the role of Palestinians in the co-existence field in Israel
Le terrain de la coexistence en Israel ne correspond guere plus qu'a celui d'un deploiement assez lâche d'ONG et d'organisations officiellement subventionnees. Le mouvement principal initie dans les annees quatre vingt procede de reunions associant juifs israeliens et palestiniens citoyens d'Israel au niveau des ecoles secondaires. Il s'agit a premiere vue d'un engagement mutuel permettant aux acteurs des deux bords de realiser une experience imm…
Strife in Nazareth: Struggles Over the Religious Meaning of Place
This article is an ethnographic account of the two-year siege by Muslim activists of the plot adjoining a shrine in Nazareth, and the ensuing efforts by a variety of local, regional and national players to bring the crisis to a peaceful resolution before the historic visit of Pope John Paul II in March 2000. It documents the efficacy of the consecration of space by personal sacrifice and collective passion, and demonstrates the roles played by lo…
The Palestinian citizens of Israel, the concept of trapped minority and the discourse of transnationalism in anthropology
Elastic, adaptable and vibrant, minorities often stretch across state borders in ways traditional concepts of states and nations fail to acknowledge, let alone theorize. The discourse of transnationalism helps to dislodge the study of minorities from the analytical straight-jacket of the state. The concept of 'trapped minority', developed herein from an analysis of the Palestinian citizens of Israel, adds to this debate. A trapped minority is a s…
Oriental Othering and National Identity: A review of Early Israeli Anthropological Studies of Palestinians
Israeli culturalism, like Israeli identity at large, is premised on a two-pronged negation-that of the Jewish diaspora and that of the Arab East. Its emergence was assisted, directly or indirectly, by academic anthropology. The formative cohort of Israeli anthropology, mainly male researchers who came of academic age in the 1960s and 1970s, displayed stronger preoccupation with the Palestinian citizens of Israel than is normally recognized. This …
Race from the Bottom of the Tribe That Never Was: Segmentary Narratives Amongst the Ghawarna of Galilee
Members of a low-status Arab group in Galilee, said to be of Bedouin origins and known by neighboring Palestinians as Ghawarna (sing. Ghorani), recently tend to play down this affiliation, some to the extent of denying that a group called Ghawarna ever existed. This phenomenon is evaluated against the better-known tendency in Arab cultures to embellish, glorify, and sometimes invent a unified past. A distinction is made between competition at the…
Borders and Their Discontents: Israel’s Green Line, Arabness and Unilateral Separation
This essay looks at the central role played by the proximity of Arabs – as individuals, as an essentialised culture and as a political entity – in the formation and consolidation of an idealised Israeli identity. Informed by recent theoretical preoccupations with genealogies of Othering (Baumann 2002; Gingrich 2002), and by notions connecting national projects and emerging notions of identity (Hobsbawm and Ranger 1983; Anderson 1991), I look at b…
Monk: An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict
(2004). Monk: An Aesthetic Occupation: The Immediacy of Architecture and the Palestine Conflict. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 110-112
Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
This historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa, the book merges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of the conflict, from the 1920s to…
Coffins on Our Shoulders: The Experience of the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
This highly original historical and political analysis of the Arab-Israeli conflict combines the unique perspectives of two prominent segments of the Middle Eastern puzzle: Israeli Jews and the Palestinian citizens of Israel. Written jointly by an Israeli anthropologist and a Palestinian family therapist born weeks apart to two families from Haifa, Coffins on Our Shoulders merges the personal and the political as it explores the various stages of…
Belated Occupation, Advanced Militarization: Edward Said's Critique of the Oslo Process Revisited
Children of Palestine: Experiencing forced migration in the Middle East - Editors by Dawn Chatty & Gillian Lewando Hundt
Sociology (29 works) · Political science (27 works) · Law (24 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (23 works) · History (21 works) · Politics (17 works) · Middle East Politics and Society (16 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · History (14 works) · Law (14 works)