Smadar lavie biography channel

  • End-of-Year Profile Article about Lavie's biography, history of scholarship and activism.
  • Follow Smadar Lavie and explore their bibliography from Amazon's Smadar Lavie Author Page.
  • TV Channel 23 Jan. “A Yemenite in Tel Aviv.” IN End-of-Year Profile Article about Lavie's biography, history of scholarship and activism.

    • •

    CURRICULUM VITAE OF SMADAR LAVIE PROFESSOR EMERITA OF ANTHROPOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS ADDRESS Department of Anthropology Young Hall One Shields Ave, University of California, Davis Davis, CA USA slavie@ 18@ + EDUCATION Ph.D. M.A. B.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Major: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization, Musicology Specializations: (1) The interplay between neo-liberal state bureaucracies, citizenship, religion, and the race- or gender-based differential access to justice (legal, social, economic, political or cultural). (2) Comparative study of borderlands and diasporas (the Arab-Israeli, US-Mexican borders and the contemporary Muslim migration to Western Europe) through the optics of NGOs, social movements, as these relate to the emergence of Right Wing feminism(s). (3) World Anthropologies; qualitative res

    •

    Anthropology and American Anthropology: Our “Special Relations” / Prof. Smadar Lavie

    Editorial Note

    The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) recently published an article, &#;Confession and Mirage: Professor Mas`uda and the Ashkenazim-for-Palestine in Israel’s Academe.&#; It was written bygd Professor Emerita Smadar Lavie from UC Berkeley who argued that &#;Ashkenazi upper-class Israeli faculty make Palestine advocacy their international career.&#;   This fryst vatten a modig admission that rings true.  As IAM has repeatedly demonstrated, activist academics have used Palestinian advocacy to build flourishing international careers.  

    Lavie’s mother was of Yemeni ursprung, and her father was a Jew from Latvia who flydde the Holocaust and settled in Palestine. By her account, Lavie had a good childhood in Israel. She became a ungdom journalist in the Maariv for ungdom Journal, where she met many of the Israeli elite, including Prime Minister Golda M

    •

    Creativity/Anthropology

    [7]

    The One Who Writes Us : Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin

    Smadar Lavie

    Allegory arises in periods of loss, periods in which a once powerful theological, political, or familial authority is threatened with effacement. Allegory arises then from the painful absence of that which it claims to recover, and, &#x; as the paradox of an order built upon its own undoing cannot be restricted to this one discursive mode, indeed, &#x; the longing for an origin whose loss is the necessary condition of that longing is the character not only of all discourse but of human existence itself.

    &#x;Stephen Greenblatt,

    Allegory and Representation

    I

    On 24 September , Anwar Sadat, Menachem Begin, and Jimmy Carter signed an almost final draft of a peace accord at the Camp David retreat that was to give the accord its name. At that moment, thousands of miles away, in the very Sinai desert on which all the dip

  • smadar lavie biography channel