Hitmazrehutor Becoming of the East

Re-Orienting Israeli Social Mapping

Bibliographic Data

ID2370360
AuthorsA Omer (0000-0001-8994-825X, University of Notre Dame, corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume43
Issue6
Pages949-976
Publication date2017-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920515604475
OpenAlexW2319146296
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited24

Through developing of the concept of hitmazrehut, the article highlights avenues for decolonializing and de-orientalizing sociopolitical theory and practice in Israel/Palestine. Hitmazrehut (literally 'becoming of the East') is understood as the transformation of relations between space, identity, and narrative through an intersectionality framework of social movement activism and intellectual counter-discourse. Exposing the intersections among sites of marginality as well as cultivating localized interpretations of identity (delinked from the orientalist positing of Israel in the 'West') would contribute to the possibility of the formation of transformative coalition building across national boundaries. Hitmazrehut is both an outcome and a necessary process for enabling geopolitical reframing. The article begins with the ahistorical and orientalist biases of sociological inquiry into the region. It continues with an analysis of efforts to localize and re-orient Jewish identity as well as the Mizrahi discursive critique of epistemological violence guiding sociological scholarship, double consciousness and patterns of ethnic passing

Aesthetics · Cognitive reframing · Epistemology · Intersectionality · Narrative · Orientalism · Political science · Scholarship · Sociology · Transformative learning · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Turkey's Politics and Society

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