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Sep 2024 • Journal Article • תיאוריה וביקורת
Between Blackness and Blackface: Athol Fugard, John Kani and Winston Ntshona’s The Island in Arabic
בין שחורּות לבלאקפייס: גרסתו הערבית של המחזה "האי" מאת אתול פיוגארד, ג'ון קאני ווינסטון נטשונהתקצירמאמר זה טוען שגרסתו הערבית של המחזה האי מאת אתול פיוגארד, ג'ון קאני ווינסטון נטשונה, בבימויו של עמית גזית לתיאטרון העירוני חיפה ב־1983, אינה מתרגמת בדיוק את המקור הדרום־אפריקאי (אם כי אין מחלוקת על כך שהסופר, המתרגם והאינטלקטואל אנטון שמאס אכן העביר את הטקסט לערבית ולעברית), אלא מצטטת אותו במרחק מכונן מדרום אפריקה. באמצעות
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1 Jul 2024 • Journal Article • Women's Studies International Forum
“A normal nation in our land”: Reproductive righteousness, redemptive politics and LGBTQIA+ opposition in contemporary Israel
AbstractThis article examines the political rhetoric and policy pursuits of a right-wing nationalist party in Israel (‘Noam’), showcasing how opposition to gender and sexual diversity is centered within an exclusionary vision of Jewish purity. Discursive analysis of political materials show how Noam frame gender and sexual diversity as potent proof of moral decline and as
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21 Feb 2024 • Journal Article • Public Understanding of Science
The four “R”s: Strategies for tailoring science for religious publics and their prices
AbstractA recent wave of studies has diversified science communication by emphasizing gender, race, and disability. In this article, we focus on the understudied lens of religion. Based on an analysis of ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) science journalism and its readership, we identify four main strategies for tailoring science, which we call the four “R”s—removing, reclaiming, remodeling
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10 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Social Media+ Society
Algorithmic Ventriloquism: The Contested State of Voice in AI Speech Generators
AbstractThis article explores the vocal human–machine relations embedded in text-to-speech (TTS) generators. Retracing the human sources behind the synthetic speech and tracking the remediation of the voice by the machine-learning algorithm, it argues that artificial intelligence (AI) speaking agents such as Siri and Alexa, as well as other TTS acts such as TikTok’s, are
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1 Nov 2023 • Journal Article • Fabula
Poetic Emancipation: Wissenschaft des Judentums and the Study of Folk-Narratives
AbstractThe present article aims at explaining the unique role the study of folk-narrative played in the Wissenschaft des Judentums (the scholarly study of Judaism) as it emerged in the nineteenth century and first half of the twentieth century and as it was negotiated later. This article engages how the language of Wissenschaft constructed Jewish texts in the language of
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12 Sep 2023 • Journal Article • Reading for Water: Materiality and Method
Hydrocolonial Johannesburg
AbstractJohannesburg is a landlocked city, famously the largest human concentration in the southern hemisphere not located on a river. What opportunities does it afford for hydrocolonial analysis, given Isabel Hofmeyr's anchoring of that term in oceanic studies? How might a hydrocolonial orientation defamiliarize the relations between surface and depths that have shaped
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24 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Plos One
Religious diversity and public health: Lessons from COVID-19
AbstractScholars have identified a range of variables that predict public health compliance during COVID-19, including: psychological, institutional and situational variables as well as demographic characteristics, such as gender, location and age. In this paper, we argue that religious affiliation is also a clear predictor for compliance with public health guidelines. Based
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Jun 2023 • Book
The State of Desire: Religion and Reproductive Politics in the Promised Land
AbstractAn intimate account of Orthodox family planning amid shifting state policies in IsraelIn recent years, Israeli state policies have attempted to dissuade Orthodox Jews from creating large families, an objective that flies in the face of traditional practices in their community. As state desires to cultivate a high-income, tech-centered nation come into greater conflict
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27 May 2023 • Journal Article • Ethnologia Europaea
Negotiating Tradition Archives in a Community Setting: Sounds of Silence and the Question of Credibility
AbstractFollowing the digitization of archival records of ethnographic work conducted among Yemeni Jews in the early 1970s, we presented these findings to the same community at the same location, fifty years later. In this renegotiation, our interlocutors radically undermined the credibility of our archival material. We analyze the audience’s reactions and the way they reflect
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23 May 2023 • Journal Article • History of European Ideas
Claude Lefort: the myth of the One
AbstractA growing interest in Claude Lefort is bringing to light his radical insights on modern democracy, totalitarianism, and human rights. While the notion perhaps most closely associated with Lefort is that of ‘the empty place of power,’ this article offers a reading of Lefort from a unique angle: his concept of the myth of the One. I demonstrate that to Lefort, the
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