Papers by Pnina Motzafi-Haller
International Journal of African Historical Studies, 2002
Foreword Introduction Fragmented Lives Gender, Conjugality, and Family Making a Living, Making a ... more 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
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Liverpool University Press eBooks, Jun 1, 2014
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Signs, Sep 1, 2018
This article explores how space, gender, and religion construct a politics of belonging and how i... more 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 territorial or spatial dislocation. Our narrative analysis examines religious women activists’ embodied experiences in Israel’s Rabbinic Courts. The Rabbinic Courts represent a contentious religious national institution accorded sole power over Jewish citizens’ marriage and divorce by the democratic secular state. We explore how the Rabbinic Courts and other interconnected “houses” shape the Jewish-Israeli collective. We critically examine how these spaces are underpinned by gendered power relations and produce gendered (dis)belongings. Building upon notions of a homing desire and the unhomely, we highlight the vital role of imagining as a transformative political and ethical act. We demonstrate how activists’ homemaking and displacements raise questions about habitus and authentic belonging, expose discrepancies between a state’s image and its actual practices, and strategically contribute to producing meanings and crafting institutions. Just as the Rabbinic Courts’ space transforms the religious women inhabiting it, collective “Jewish homes” are critically transformed by these women. We argue that homemaking and displacement are potentially simultaneous lived experiences, interrelated concepts, and linked political strategies of sociocultural change.
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Journal of Israeli History, Mar 1, 2009
In this provocative and well-researched book, Khazzoom shows why Israeli society is an interestin... more In this provocative and well-researched book, Khazzoom shows why Israeli society is an interesting, and rather unique, case to explore in terms of the dynamics of emerging ethnic stratification in modern societies. During the late 1950s and 1960sthe period covered by ...
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Journal of Rural Cooperation, 2001
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Routledge eBooks, Jan 7, 2021
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Qualitative Inquiry, Jul 7, 2011
From early 1980s, a large body of feminist literature has been attempting to account for and expl... more 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 overcome through methodological strategies, proposing instead to understand silence and fragmentation as part of the process through which they develop their sense of self and agency. Second, the authors insist that both the micro interview setting and the macro, sociohistorical contexts must be considered and analyzed within the same framework that positions the research participant at the center. The authors illustrate these arguments through the case study of multiply marginalized Jewish women who immigrated to Israel in the 1950s and 1960s from North Africa and Asia.
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Ethnography, Mar 3, 2021
Drawing on theoretical discussions that explore embodiment as a critical realm for the articulati... more 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 their blonde embodied practice. Using three ethnographic vignettes I argue that the blonde performance of my interlocutors cannot be understood as mere mimicry of, or reaction to, the imagined Israeli collective identification as White European. It is rather a creative act of self-fashioning that brings joy and self-affirmation to its practitioners and at the same time, at a collective level, it is a practice that poses a symbolic threat that works to fragment hegemonic Israeli claims to Whiteness
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2015 Annual Meeting, Nov 19, 2015
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Identities-global Studies in Culture and Power, Apr 1, 1996
This analysis offers an examination of two larger theoretical questions. The first is the questio... more 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 struggles with national and transnational forces, I wish to examine the way collective identities, social space, and social relations have shifted in the course of the past decade or more in Botswana.
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Journal of Women's History, 2005
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Current Anthropology, Apr 1, 1990
... Wilmsen 1983; Gordon I984; Denbow 1984, 1986; Par-JACQUELINE S. SOLWAY is Assistant Professor... more ... Wilmsen 1983; Gordon I984; Denbow 1984, 1986; Par-JACQUELINE S. SOLWAY is Assistant Professor of Women's Studies kington 1984; Denbow and Wilmsen 1986)." In their zeal at the University of Toronto (Toronto, Ont., Canada MSS IAz). ...
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American Ethnologist, Aug 1, 1994
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Signs, Apr 1, 2001
... help in various ways during the long months and years that led to the writing of this article... more ... help in various ways during the long months and years that led to the writing of this article: Vicki Shiran, Niza Yanai, Cathy Ferguson, Riv ... 1 Dahan-Kalev's essay about Mizrahi feminism, an essay that is cited below as a draft paper circulating among a few feminist scholars, was ...
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Journal of Religion in Africa, Feb 1, 1995
... Strengthened by this faith, they were also able to shake off foreign oppression and to achiev... more ... Strengthened by this faith, they were also able to shake off foreign oppression and to achieve the independence of Namibia. ... VALIENTE-NOAILLES, Carlos, The Kua: Life and Soul of the Central Kalahari Bushmen, Rotterdam, AA Balkema, 1993, 232 pp., Hfl. ...
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Canadian Journal of African Studies, 1997
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Botswana Notes and Records, 1993
... within a well-defined area (the colonial "reserve") headed by a kgosi e kgo... more ... within a well-defined area (the colonial "reserve") headed by a kgosi e kgolo, or paramount chief. ... For example, my oral interviews in the Tswapon area indicate that the founding core groups (the kgosing) of the villages of Gotai Ratholo, Ma Naledi and Moremi are all agnatically ...
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Cultural Anthropology, Nov 1, 1998
... The first involves an old man, who after an hour-long interview with a stu-dent exploded in a... more ... The first involves an old man, who after an hour-long interview with a stu-dent exploded in anger and snapped back, as reported by the student, "It was the Bangwato who called these hills Tswapong as a sign of looking down at us or de-spising us" (Kiyaga-Mulindwa 1980:195 ...
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Political and legal anthropology review, Nov 1, 1995
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