Coffins on Our Shoulders

Rabinowitz, Dan; Abu-Baker, Khawla

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“…Most Israeli researchers agree that this mechanism, particularly the class inferiority complex of the Arab minority group, is a result of the lower political status of Arabs in Israel. According to these scholars (see: Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker, 2005; Rabinowitz and Monterescu, 2007; Yacobi, 2002; Yiftachel and Yacobi, 2003), the Israeli-Arab minority, especially in mixed cities, has been suffering for many years from discrimination, alienation, depravation, exclusion, and negligence at both the national and local-municipal levels.…”

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Urban distress and political narrative: Life stories of local leaders in a poor, underprivileged suburb and the reconstruction of urban order

Dahan

2016

Qualitative Social Work

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This study discusses the relations between life stories, political narratives and attitudes towards social problems taken by local leaders living in a poor, underprivileged suburb. Using the 'biographical-narrative' method, it addresses the questions-How do local conditions (in terms of: housing, social class, municipal policy, social networks, NGO settings, local conflicts, organizational narratives, etc.) affect local leaders' narratives, biographies, attitudes and strategies and, vice versa-How do their narratives affect the urban order? In order to attain these answers, this paper presents two contradicting narratives, taken from two different local activists, both acting on behalf of the weak Arab population in an Israeli suburb at the turn of 21st century. The findings show that these divergent narratives and resultant attitudes were both deeply rooted in each narrator's life story and close social milieu. Furthermore, such life stories, charged by certain biographical resources, generated and maintained particular strategies that, in turn, affected the reconstruction of their immediate urban socio-political order. Applying the 'biographical-narrative' method to the urban political realm has created a unique configuration of social analysis with some policy implications, especially in regard to community social work.

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“…As noted, such arguments are discussed in many studies. See: Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker (2005); Yacobi (2002); Yiftachel and Yacobi (2003). However, the fact that individuals and local leaders among the Arab-Israeli population address such conditions differently means that these studies must be supplemented by micro-structural studies.…”

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Urban distress and political narrative: Life stories of local leaders in a poor, underprivileged suburb and the reconstruction of urban order

Dahan

2016

Qualitative Social Work

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“…In recent years, Palestinian citizens of Israel have become ever more cognizant of their citizenship status and are increasingly considering themselves as subjects of a settler-colonial project (Rouhana and Sabbagh-Khoury 2015). Concurrently, asserting Palestinian national identity has become more prevalent among Palestinian citizens (Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker 2005). In the 2020 Israeli national elections, 87.5 percent of Palestinian citizens voted for the non-Zionist, outspokenly Palestinian Joint List (Rodnitzki 2020), gaining some 12.5 percent of the seats and becoming the third-largest party in the Israeli Parliament.…”

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“…The term “Arabs” relates to a broader reference group that denotes a shared cultural and linguistic background. But it omits the sense of belonging to a Palestinian nationality and the geopolitical connection with the land of Palestine (Rabinowitz and Abu‐Baker 2005, 43–44). These two aspects of Palestinian identity are long considered by Israelis to be in direct confrontation with Zionist practice, which asserts the exclusive monopoly on national aspirations in the (exclusively) Jewish homeland.…”

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Helsinki in Zion: Hospital ethics committees and political gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine

Shalev

2022

American Anthropologist

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This article looks at six months of the author's repeated attempts to obtain the approval of three Helsinki Committees (HCs, Israeli hospitals' research ethics committees) to conduct ethnographic research with Palestinian physicians in Israeli hospitals.While the research was eventually approved and carried out in two of these institutions, correspondence with HC representatives, as well as evidence of their informal moves with institutions' management, reflect their perceptions of the risks the study posed. In the Israeli hospital, acknowledging Palestinian political subjectivity challenges the definition of Israeli nationhood as exclusively Jewish and contaminates the allegedly politically neutral medical sphere. These committees exerted their power to serve their institutions and state ideology. This, I argue, should not be understood as anomalous instances of negligence. I show how the committees' censorship was attuned to the Declaration of Helsinki as their guiding text and Zionism as their underlying ideology. Embedded in the powerful regimes of ethics, bureaucracy, science, and health, ethics committees employ "unarmed power" that is beyond critique. They are well-oiled "anti-politics machines," rearticulating political concerns into a depoliticized moral discourse. As such, they not only limit academic inquiry but also redefine, in political terms, the realm of the moral.

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“…Like the Ethiopians, they have developed an identity of their own, in their case in reference to a future independent Palestinian state. The latter connects them with a broader entity and a “double consciousness,” providing structural opportunities to partake in wider cultural environments to which they belong yet have limited physical access (Amal, 2007; Bishara, 1993; Mizrachi and Herzog, 2012; Rabinowitz and Abu-Baker, 2002).…”

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Why can’t Palestinian chefs penetrate the boundaries of upscale dining in Israel?

Gvion

2019

Ethnicities

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Ethnic and professional identities are generally viewed as incongruent. While ethnic cooking is seen as a reproduction of unaltered native dishes, professional cooking raises anticipation of invented culinary novelties. This study asks why Palestinian chefs fail to reconfigure ethnicity as an invaluable asset that enables their restaurant to partake in the realm of haute dining in Israel. The reconfiguration of Palestinian culinary knowledge as sophisticated and up-to-date, I argue, challenges their clients' expectations that Palestinian chefs will prioritize the ethnic component of their identity over the professional one. This vision of Palestinian restaurants prevents the chefs from mobilizing the growing curiosity for ethnic cuisines, as well as the nostalgia for dishes that have disappeared from domestic kitchens, keeping them from penetrating the realm of haute cuisine en route to upward mobility and professional autonomy.

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Coffins on Our Shoulders

Cited by 25 publications

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Urban distress and political narrative: Life stories of local leaders in a poor, underprivileged suburb and the reconstruction of urban order

Urban distress and political narrative: Life stories of local leaders in a poor, underprivileged suburb and the reconstruction of urban order

Helsinki in Zion: Hospital ethics committees and political gatekeeping in Israel/Palestine

Why can’t Palestinian chefs penetrate the boundaries of upscale dining in Israel?

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