Avi Shoshana
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3638282 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Avi Shoshana |
| PRENOMES | Avi |
| SOBRENOME | Shoshana |
| ASSINATURA | SHOSHANA A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Bar-Ilan University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 79 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2006 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2015 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Singlehood in Treatment
This article offers a critical discourse analysis of the Israeli television series In Treatment . The series unfolds the therapy sessions of a 40-year-old single female attorney with her therapist. The main objective of the study was to identify the scripted tactics or narrative strategies that establish and maintain singlehood. The findings indicate that the therapeutic discourse plays a central role in the construction and interpretation of sin…
Space, Heterogeneity, and Everyday Life
This article examines the relations between the characteristics of a space and the phenomenology of its residents, as well as the unique influence of the space on the social relations and the actions undertaken by the individuals and groups in it. It is based on ethnographies and in-depth interviews conducted at the Israeli ultra-orthodox town of Immanuel, which made the headlines on account of the ethnic selection carried out there, a scandal kn…
Governing Heterogeneous Populations
Drawing on the Israeli 'Immanuel Affair' (also called the 'Israeli Brown Affair'), we examine the complex relationship between governmentality and population compositions. In the town of Immanuel, the State attempted to establish a homogeneous population of ultra-orthodox Jews by opening it to unrestricted settlement. Rather than homogeneity however, this strategy produced a divided community, whose Ashkenazi and Mizrahi residents barely interact…
Discursive Alliances and Clashes in Everyday Life
This article proposes that in order to produce complex sociological analyses of the dominance of a specific discourse, we must expand the theoretical and empirical discussion about the relationships between orders of discourse in everyday life. Towards that end, this article describes two types of relations: discursive alliance and discursive clashes. For the purpose of describing discursive alliances, I will present the findings of several schol…
Minor language and major responses in the field of popular music in Israel
Passing' as (Non)Ethnic
This article offers a cultural analysis of the practice of 'acting white' in a society where the distinction between black and white is vague and primarily symbolic and where the hegemonic discourse denies the existence of ethnic inequality and encourages ethnic integration. In the Israeli context, acting white or passing (in Hebrew, hishtaknezut or 'Ashkenazification') refers to mimicking the habitus of the dominant (European) ethnic group. Base…
Role-Play and "As If" Self in Everyday Life
In this article, I examine the use of role-play strategy and its outcomes in field experiment conditions in the Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel. Data derive from two major sources: governmental protocols related to the organizational production of a role-play technique and interviews with graduates of the experimental school years after their role-playing experience. Analysis of governmental protocols shows the intentional orga…
Governmentality, new population and subjectivity
Classification, Subjectivities, and Personal Visibility
This article proposes extending the empirical sociological debate regarding the complex ways social classifications construct scenarios of subjectivity. Based on the case study of the Boarding School for the Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel, the article describes how a new cultural order created a new scenario of subjectivity (“gifted disadvantaged”) that had not been known before. This scenario was shaped in relation both to the ethnic classificat…
The Self as Public Property
This article examines the connection between state order and self-understandings in everyday life through a case study of the 'Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged' in Israel. It includes content analysis of governmental protocols that documented the establishment of the boarding school (governmental constitution of a new self-concept) and interviews with sixty of its graduates (self-understandings in everyday life). The findings reveal how t…
Major and Minor Languages of Ethnicity
This article proposes using the theoretical discussions of Deleuze and Guattari as a means of comprehending the various ways in which individuals speak about their ethnic identity. This is done through a case study of a state-run educational boarding school offered to subjects identified as 'ethnic' in Israel. The findings expose two ways of talking about ethnic identity: 'minor language' and 'major language'. What I term the 'major language of e…
Governmentality, self, and acting at a distance
This article deals with the way individuals translate governmental rationality into specific self-understandings in everyday life. Based on the case study of a state-run boarding school in Israel, the article draws a link between deliberate governmental intervention in the self-concept of ethnic subjects and the manner in which boarding-school graduates experience this intervention and their selfhood, years after their education in the boarding s…
When the hybrid met the therapeutic
Analysis of the contemporary postcolonial discourse in Israel reveals the dominance of research reporting the hybridity and ambivalent life experiences that are characteristic of borderlands. However, suggesting that these studies rely mainly on distanced textual representations, this article proposes an inductive approach that adheres to the experimental strength of anthropology and describes how ethnic subjects experience their selfhood and rea…
The phenomenology of a new social category
Coming Out of the Coffin
This article discusses how the dominant approach to life and death as binary structures in American society influences the social construction of the self. Through the analysis of the television series Six Feet Under, we identify two types of selves: a 'life-self' and a 'death-self.' Questioning this binary, we offer the concept of 'transitory movements' to suggest instead that a 'waltzing' movement between life and death endows the self with mea…
Passing' as (Non)Ethnic
This article offers a cultural analysis of the practice of 'acting white' in a society where the distinction between black and white is vague and primarily symbolic and where the hegemonic discourse denies the existence of ethnic inequality and encourages ethnic integration. In the Israeli context, acting white or passing (in Hebrew, hishtaknezut or 'Ashkenazification') refers to mimicking the habitus of the dominant (European) ethnic group. Base…
When the hybrid met the therapeutic
Analysis of the contemporary postcolonial discourse in Israel reveals the dominance of research reporting the hybridity and ambivalent life experiences that are characteristic of borderlands. However, suggesting that these studies rely mainly on distanced textual representations, this article proposes an inductive approach that adheres to the experimental strength of anthropology and describes how ethnic subjects experience their selfhood and rea…
Space, Heterogeneity, and Everyday Life
This article examines the relations between the characteristics of a space and the phenomenology of its residents, as well as the unique influence of the space on the social relations and the actions undertaken by the individuals and groups in it. It is based on ethnographies and in-depth interviews conducted at the Israeli ultra-orthodox town of Immanuel, which made the headlines on account of the ethnic selection carried out there, a scandal kn…
The phenomenology of a new social category
Discursive Alliances and Clashes in Everyday Life
This article proposes that in order to produce complex sociological analyses of the dominance of a specific discourse, we must expand the theoretical and empirical discussion about the relationships between orders of discourse in everyday life. Towards that end, this article describes two types of relations: discursive alliance and discursive clashes. For the purpose of describing discursive alliances, I will present the findings of several schol…
Governmentality, self, and acting at a distance
This article deals with the way individuals translate governmental rationality into specific self-understandings in everyday life. Based on the case study of a state-run boarding school in Israel, the article draws a link between deliberate governmental intervention in the self-concept of ethnic subjects and the manner in which boarding-school graduates experience this intervention and their selfhood, years after their education in the boarding s…
Singlehood in Treatment
This article offers a critical discourse analysis of the Israeli television series In Treatment . The series unfolds the therapy sessions of a 40-year-old single female attorney with her therapist. The main objective of the study was to identify the scripted tactics or narrative strategies that establish and maintain singlehood. The findings indicate that the therapeutic discourse plays a central role in the construction and interpretation of sin…
Classification, Subjectivities, and Personal Visibility
This article proposes extending the empirical sociological debate regarding the complex ways social classifications construct scenarios of subjectivity. Based on the case study of the Boarding School for the Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel, the article describes how a new cultural order created a new scenario of subjectivity (“gifted disadvantaged”) that had not been known before. This scenario was shaped in relation both to the ethnic classificat…
The Self as Public Property
This article examines the connection between state order and self-understandings in everyday life through a case study of the 'Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged' in Israel. It includes content analysis of governmental protocols that documented the establishment of the boarding school (governmental constitution of a new self-concept) and interviews with sixty of its graduates (self-understandings in everyday life). The findings reveal how t…
Minor language and major responses in the field of popular music in Israel
Coming Out of the Coffin
This article discusses how the dominant approach to life and death as binary structures in American society influences the social construction of the self. Through the analysis of the television series Six Feet Under, we identify two types of selves: a 'life-self' and a 'death-self.' Questioning this binary, we offer the concept of 'transitory movements' to suggest instead that a 'waltzing' movement between life and death endows the self with mea…
Governing Heterogeneous Populations
Drawing on the Israeli 'Immanuel Affair' (also called the 'Israeli Brown Affair'), we examine the complex relationship between governmentality and population compositions. In the town of Immanuel, the State attempted to establish a homogeneous population of ultra-orthodox Jews by opening it to unrestricted settlement. Rather than homogeneity however, this strategy produced a divided community, whose Ashkenazi and Mizrahi residents barely interact…
Role-Play and "As If" Self in Everyday Life
In this article, I examine the use of role-play strategy and its outcomes in field experiment conditions in the Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel. Data derive from two major sources: governmental protocols related to the organizational production of a role-play technique and interviews with graduates of the experimental school years after their role-playing experience. Analysis of governmental protocols shows the intentional orga…
Coming Out of the Coffin
This article discusses how the dominant approach to life and death as binary structures in American society influences the social construction of the self. Through the analysis of the television series Six Feet Under, we identify two types of selves: a 'life-self' and a 'death-self.' Questioning this binary, we offer the concept of 'transitory movements' to suggest instead that a 'waltzing' movement between life and death endows the self with mea…
The phenomenology of a new social category
Major and Minor Languages of Ethnicity
This article proposes using the theoretical discussions of Deleuze and Guattari as a means of comprehending the various ways in which individuals speak about their ethnic identity. This is done through a case study of a state-run educational boarding school offered to subjects identified as 'ethnic' in Israel. The findings expose two ways of talking about ethnic identity: 'minor language' and 'major language'. What I term the 'major language of e…
Governmentality, self, and acting at a distance
This article deals with the way individuals translate governmental rationality into specific self-understandings in everyday life. Based on the case study of a state-run boarding school in Israel, the article draws a link between deliberate governmental intervention in the self-concept of ethnic subjects and the manner in which boarding-school graduates experience this intervention and their selfhood, years after their education in the boarding s…
When the hybrid met the therapeutic
Analysis of the contemporary postcolonial discourse in Israel reveals the dominance of research reporting the hybridity and ambivalent life experiences that are characteristic of borderlands. However, suggesting that these studies rely mainly on distanced textual representations, this article proposes an inductive approach that adheres to the experimental strength of anthropology and describes how ethnic subjects experience their selfhood and rea…
Governmentality, new population and subjectivity
Classification, Subjectivities, and Personal Visibility
This article proposes extending the empirical sociological debate regarding the complex ways social classifications construct scenarios of subjectivity. Based on the case study of the Boarding School for the Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel, the article describes how a new cultural order created a new scenario of subjectivity (“gifted disadvantaged”) that had not been known before. This scenario was shaped in relation both to the ethnic classificat…
The Self as Public Property
This article examines the connection between state order and self-understandings in everyday life through a case study of the 'Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged' in Israel. It includes content analysis of governmental protocols that documented the establishment of the boarding school (governmental constitution of a new self-concept) and interviews with sixty of its graduates (self-understandings in everyday life). The findings reveal how t…
Minor language and major responses in the field of popular music in Israel
Passing' as (Non)Ethnic
This article offers a cultural analysis of the practice of 'acting white' in a society where the distinction between black and white is vague and primarily symbolic and where the hegemonic discourse denies the existence of ethnic inequality and encourages ethnic integration. In the Israeli context, acting white or passing (in Hebrew, hishtaknezut or 'Ashkenazification') refers to mimicking the habitus of the dominant (European) ethnic group. Base…
Role-Play and "As If" Self in Everyday Life
In this article, I examine the use of role-play strategy and its outcomes in field experiment conditions in the Boarding School for Gifted Disadvantaged in Israel. Data derive from two major sources: governmental protocols related to the organizational production of a role-play technique and interviews with graduates of the experimental school years after their role-playing experience. Analysis of governmental protocols shows the intentional orga…
Space, Heterogeneity, and Everyday Life
This article examines the relations between the characteristics of a space and the phenomenology of its residents, as well as the unique influence of the space on the social relations and the actions undertaken by the individuals and groups in it. It is based on ethnographies and in-depth interviews conducted at the Israeli ultra-orthodox town of Immanuel, which made the headlines on account of the ethnic selection carried out there, a scandal kn…
Governing Heterogeneous Populations
Drawing on the Israeli 'Immanuel Affair' (also called the 'Israeli Brown Affair'), we examine the complex relationship between governmentality and population compositions. In the town of Immanuel, the State attempted to establish a homogeneous population of ultra-orthodox Jews by opening it to unrestricted settlement. Rather than homogeneity however, this strategy produced a divided community, whose Ashkenazi and Mizrahi residents barely interact…
Discursive Alliances and Clashes in Everyday Life
This article proposes that in order to produce complex sociological analyses of the dominance of a specific discourse, we must expand the theoretical and empirical discussion about the relationships between orders of discourse in everyday life. Towards that end, this article describes two types of relations: discursive alliance and discursive clashes. For the purpose of describing discursive alliances, I will present the findings of several schol…
Singlehood in Treatment
This article offers a critical discourse analysis of the Israeli television series In Treatment . The series unfolds the therapy sessions of a 40-year-old single female attorney with her therapist. The main objective of the study was to identify the scripted tactics or narrative strategies that establish and maintain singlehood. The findings indicate that the therapeutic discourse plays a central role in the construction and interpretation of sin…
Sociology (15 obras) · Political science (12 obras) · Law (10 obras) · Psychology (10 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Gender Studies (9 obras) · Social Psychology (9 obras) · Anthropology (7 obras) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (7 obras) · Politics (7 obras)