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Nira Yuval-Davis

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Nira Yuval-Davis
Born (1943-08-22) August 22, 1943 (age 82)
Tel-Aviv, Israel
🏡 ResidenceLondon, UK
🏳️ NationalityBritish, Israeli
💼 Occupation
🏅 AwardsInternational Sociological Association Award for Excellence in Research and Practice (2018)
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences

Nira Yuval-Davis, FAcSS (born August 22, 1943), is a British and diasporic Israeli sociologist, an Emeritus Professor and Honorary Director of the Centre for research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB) at the University of East London. She has written on intersected gendered nationalisms, racisms, fundamentalisms, citizenships, identities, belonging/s and everyday bordering.

In 2018, she won the International Sociological Association Award for Excellence in Research and Practice...[1]. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences[2]

Early life and education

Nira Yuval-Davis was born in Tel-Aviv to a Labour Zionist family. [3][4] She has one sister, Ora Sperber. Her parents, Itzhak and Rivka, migrated to Mandatory Palestine in the early 1930s. During WWII their families and community in Alytus, Lithuania, were murdered by the Nazis and their local helpers in the nearby woods. Nira Yuval-Davis grew up as part of a tight labour Zionist community in the heart of Tel-Aviv, during the 1950s. Her father worked for the cooperative movement but in his 50s became an accountant, continuing to work with the same cooperatives which became capitalist companies. After meeting Palestinians citizens of Israel as a teenager, Yuval-Davis started to question the hegemonic Labour Zionist ideology she grew up with. When she was sent to work in the office of the Military Government for the Israeli Palestinians shortly after starting her national service in the Israeli military, this questioning ‘earned’ her a low security ranking and she was sent to work as a typist in a military garage. This brought her into close social interaction with much wider social circles than she met while growing up in the ‘labour aristocracy’, something which benefited her later sociological and political work.

As a student of sociology and psychology at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, Yuval-Davis started her political activism, against the military government of the Palestinian citizens of Israel as well as the ‘religious coercion’ and non-separation of religion and the state in Israel. During this period, she met her first husband, Uri Davis, who introduced to Israel the Ghandian method of hunger striking as a mode of public protest against the confiscation of lands of Israeli Palestinians as an effort to ‘Judaize’ the Galilee. After the 1967 Six-Day War, the activism of Yuval-Davis and her husband as well as of their close friends focused primarily on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

During this period, Yuval-Davis started to be involved in sociological research while working on a master's degree in sociology at the Hebrew University. She became the research coordinator of the first Israeli sociological research on the national identity and education of teenage Palestinians citizens of Israel.[5][6].

Her MA dissertation was an ethnographic study of the anti-Zionist Socialist Israeli organization Matzpen in 1977 in Hebrew. In 1979, Yuval-Davis joined Uri Davis (her husband) in a lecture tour in United States of America against the Israeli occupation. The tour was organized by the Jewish Peace Fellowship and brought Yuval-Davis in touch with different Jewish radical political movements which constituted part of the more general civil rights, anti-Vietnam and growing feminist movement in the USA at the time. These connections influenced Yuval-Davis's research orientation, and she began to work on a PhD dissertation examining how different new Jewish movements in the USA in the period of 1967 to 73 constructed their Jewishness in relation to wider social issues.[7]. A few months after her son Gul was born in 1973, Yuval-Davis moved in with her husband to London. However, shortly after, for combined personal and political reasons, her first marriage ended. She transferred her PhD studies to University of Sussex, where she graduated in 1979.

Political activism

Yuval-Davis continued her political activism while living in London. Shortly after arrival she joined a group of anti-Zionist socialist Israelis living in London who, a couple of years later, joined Palestinians and other Arab socialists to establish the journal and publication forum Khamsin.[8] She has continued to be active in this area. In 1984, as part of a combined academic and political tour in Australia, she met her second husband, Alain Hertzmann, who coordinated the local group JAZA (Jews against Zionism and Antisemitism). He moved to live with her in London a year later.

At the same time, Yuval-Davis has been active in a range of local issues, mainly as part of feminist anti-racist forums such as WING (Women, Immigration and Nationality Group)[9], the European Socialist Feminist Group, Big Flame and from 1989, following the Salman Rushdie Affair, as a co-founder of Women Against Fundamentalism [10] which had by then transformed to the editorial collective of the on-line journal Feminist Dissent[11]. She was a founding member of the international research group on women in militarized conflict zones[12]. In the 1990s, She became involved in the NGO Forums of the UN conferences on human rights, reproductive rights and women's rights and worked as a consultant in a series of international organizations such as Amnesty International, AWID, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence Against Women and was part of an investigative women's delegation to the Gujarat after the pogroms against Muslims in 2003[13][14].

In recent years, she has also given presentations in several museums such as Graz, Prague and Tate Modern on topics in the areas of belonging and migration [15][16][17].

Teaching and research

After part-time teaching as a student in Israel and the USA, Yuval-Davis started working as a full-time Lecturer in sociology in 1974 at Thames Polytechnic (which later became the University of Greenwich). She resigned from University of Greenwich in 2003, in protest against the ‘restructuring’ that was taking place and moved on to the University of East London (UEL). In Greenwich she developed Master's and PhD programmes in Gender and Ethnic Studies. After moving to UEL, she transferred these programmes to UEL, where she also found and co-directed the Centre for Research on Migration, Refugees and Belonging (CMRB)[18]. Throughout her career, Yuval-Davis was awarded visiting fellowships and professorships in several countries. She has given more than hundred public lectures and keynote presentations in different parts of the world. She has co-organized conferences on the Israel Palestine theme that resulted in edited volumes: Israel and The Palestinians[19]; Women, Citizenship and Difference[20][21] and the Situated Politics of Belonging[22]. After completing her PhD studies, Yuval-Davis started her work on the gendered character of the Zionist movement, focusing on the role of women as national reproducers[23][24] as well as the gendered character of the military[25]. This led to her later work on the gendered character of nationalism [26]and citizenship[27] [28]which eventually developed into a more general theoretical framework on the Politics of Belonging[29]. Studying Zionism as a settler society political project was the first step in her work with Daiva Stasiulis on the intersectional structure of settler societies in general[30].

Yuval-Davis continued to work on the relationship between antisemitism and other forms of racism. In the 1990s she co-directed, with Max Silverman, an ESRC project on Anti-Jewish & Anti-Arab Racialized Discourses in Britain and France[31][32] and in recent years she organized, with Jamie Hakim, Chetan Bhatt and Gilbert Ashkar, conferences at LSE and SOAS on Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms and the question of Palestine-Israel[33].

With Floya Anthias, Yuval-Davis developed an intersectional theoretical approach to gender and ethnic/racial relations [34][35]which eventually developed to her dialogical epistemological methodological approach for the analysis of the situated imagination[36] and the more general analytical frame of situated intersectionality[37]. She also examined the implications of such an approach on inter-feminist political solidarity work and developed her notion of transversal politics[38][39].

A major concern of Nira Yuval-Davis has been to link the political and theoretical work on racism and migration and the ways these link to issues of nationalism and belonging. This has been the focus of her work as the President (2002-2006) of the International Sociological Association Research Committee 05 on Racism, Nationalism and Ethnic Relations.[40]. In Britain, while working as a volunteer at the Hackney Migrant Centre[41], she worked (during the years 2005-8), with Erene Kaptani, on an ESRC research project, using participatory theatre techniques on different refugees and asylum seekers groups in East London[42][43]. As a director of CMRB, she also organised several conferences on the subject with the Runneymede Trust[44].In 2016 Nira co-founded a working group on Racism, Migration and Settlement at the British Academy of Social Sciences[45]

Growing up in Israel, Yuval-Davis has always been interested in issues of borders and boundaries. With Marcel Stoetzler, she worked on gendered borders and boundaries[46] which she later developed, with Georgie Wemyss and Kathryn Cassidy, in the framework of the 2012-16 EU-funded research project EUBorderscapes[47]. In recent publications, alongside others argues that the everyday bordering has taken the place of multiculturalism as the hegemonic technology of control of diversity and has profoundly affected constructions of citizenship and social relations in contemporary western democracies[48][49]

References

  1. ↑ "ISA Award for Excellence in Research and Practice". Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  2. ↑ "Fellows of the Academy of Social Sciences". Retrieved October 4, 2018.
  3. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (2004). "Chapter 5: The Contaminated Paradise". In Abdo, Nahla; Lentin, Ronit. Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation. Oxford: Berghan Books. pp. 251–261. ISBN 978-1-78238-173-0. Search this book on
  4. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (2014). "Intersectional Contestations". In Dhaliwal, Sukhwant; Yuval-Davis, Nira. Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity. London: Lawrence and Wishart. pp. 127–140. ISBN 1909831026. Search this book on .
  5. ↑ Peres, Yochaman; Yuval-Davis, Nira (1969). "Some observations on the National Identity of the Israeli Arab". Human relations. 22 (3): 219–233. Retrieved 28 January 2019..
  6. ↑ Peres, Tochanan; Ehrlich, Avishai; Yuval-Davis, Nira (1970). "National Education for Arab Youth in Israel: A Comparative Analysis of Curricula". The Jewish Journal of Sociology. 12 (2): 147–164. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  7. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1979). The New Jewish Movement: Jewish Nationalism and Radical Politics in The USA 1967-1973 (PhD). Sussex University.
  8. ↑ Kadi, Leila; Lobel, Eli, eds. (1975). "Khamsin". Paris. Retrieved 28 January 2019. Khamsin: https://libcom.org/library/khamsin-journal-revolutionary-socialists-middle-east
  9. ↑ Bhabha, Jacqueline; Klug, Francesca; Shutter, Sue, eds. (1985). Worlds Apart: Women under Immigration and Nationality Law. Pluto Press. ISBN 0745300219. Search this book on
  10. ↑ Dhaliwal, Sukhwant; Yuval-Davis, Nira, eds. (2014). Women Against Fundamentalism: Stories of Dissent and Solidarity. London: Lawrence and Wishart. ISBN 9781909831025. Search this book on
  11. ↑ Feminist Dissent: https://journals.warwick.ac.uk/index.php/feministdissent
  12. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (2004), "Gender, the Nationalist Imagination, War, and Peace", in Giles, Wenona; Hyndman, Jennifer, Sites of Violence: Gender and Conflict Zones, Berkley: The University of California Press, ISBN 0520237919
  13. ↑ "Interview with Professor Nira Yuval‐Davis: After Gender and Nation". Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism. 9 (1): 128–138. 2009. doi:10.1111/j.1754-9469.2009.01034.x.
  14. ↑ International Initiative for Justice (2003). Threatened Existence: A Feminist Analysis of the Genocide in Gujarat (with other members of the International Initiative for Justice in Gujarat team) (Report). Forum against Oppression of Women. p. 197. Retrieved 28 January 2019.CS1 maint: Uses authors parameter (link)
  15. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (3 October 2007). Boundaries, Borders and the Politics of Belonging (Speech). Volksgarten. Politics of Belonging. Kuntshaus Grasz. a public lecture at the Kunthaus Museum, Graz, Austria
  16. ↑ Nira Yuval-Davis (8 November 2017). The Refugee as a Paradoxical ‘Other’ under Neo-Liberal Globalisation (Speech). Ai Weiwei. Law of the Journey. National Gallery Prague. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  17. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (25 May 2018). Hostile Environment: The Politics of (Un)Belonging (PDF) (Speech). Tate Modern London. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  18. ↑ "Centre for Migration, Refugees and Belonging". University of East London. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  19. ↑ U. Davis; A. Mack; N. Yuval-Davis London, eds. (1975). Israel and The Palestinians. Ithaca Press. Search this book on
  20. ↑ Women, Citizenship and Difference, edited with P. Werbner Z Books 1999
  21. ↑ Warning Signs of Fundamentalisms edited with A. Imam, WLUML, 2004
  22. ↑ Situated Politics of Belonging, edited with K. Kannabiran & U. Vieten, London: Sage, 2006
  23. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1980). "The Bearers of the Collective: Women and Religious Legislation in Israel". Feminist Review. 5: 15–27. doi:10.2307/1394767.
  24. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1986). "Women as National Reproducers: "The Jewish Collectivity and National Reproduction in Israel". Khamsin: 60–93. Retrieved 28 January 2019.
  25. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1985). "Front and Rear: Sexual Divisions of Labour in the Israeli Military". Feminist Studies. 11 (3): 649–675. doi:10.2307/3180123.
  26. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1997). Gender and Nation. Search this book on
  27. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1991). "The Citizenship Debate: Women, Ethnic Processes and the State". Feminist Review. 39: 58–68. doi:10.2307/1395439.
  28. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1999). "The Multi-Layered Citizen at the Age of 'Glocalization'". International Feminist Journal of Politics. 1 (1): 119–136. doi:10.1080/146167499360068.
  29. ↑ The Politics of Belonging: Intersectional Contestations London:Sage, 2011
  30. ↑ Unsettling Settler Societies: Articulations of Gender, Ethnicity, Race and Class, edited with D. Stasiulis, Sage, 1995
  31. ↑ Silverman, Max; Yuval-Davis, Nira (1999). "Jews, Arabs and the Theorisation of Racism in Britain and France". In Brah, A; Hickman, M; Mac an Ghaill, M. Thinking Identities:Ethnicity, Racism and Culture. Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 25–48. doi:10.1057/9780230375963_2. Search this book on
  32. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira; Silverman, Max (2002). "Memorializing the Holocaust in Britain". Ethnicities. 2 (1): 107–123. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  33. ↑ "Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim racisms, and the question of Palestine/Israel". 2015-09-25.
  34. ↑ Anthias, Floya; Yuval-Davis, Nira (1983). "Contextualizing Feminism: Gender, Ethnic & Class divisions". Feminist Review. 15: 62–75. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  35. ↑ Anthias, Floya; Yuval-Davis, Nira (1992). Racialised Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle. Search this book on
  36. ↑ Stoetzler, Marcel; Yuval-Davis, Nira (2002). "Standpoint Theory, Situated Knowledge & the Situated Imagination". Feminist Theory. 3 (3): 315–334. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  37. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (2006). "Intersectionality and feminist politics". European Journal of Women Studies. 13 (3): 193–209. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  38. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (1994). "Women, Ethnicity and Empowerment". Feminism and Psychology. 4 (1): 179–197. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  39. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira (2006). "Human/Women's rights and feminist transversal politics". In Feree, Myra Marx; Tripp, Aili Mari. Transnational Feminisms:Women’s Global Activism and Human Rights. New York University Press. pp. 275–295. ISBN 9780814727942. Search this book on
  40. ↑ "RC05 Racism, Nationalism, Indigeneity and Ethnicity".
  41. ↑ "Hackney Migrant Centre".
  42. ↑ Kaptani, Erene; Yuval-Davis, Nira (2008). "Participatory theatre as a research methodology". Sociological Research Online. 13 (5). Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  43. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira; Kaptani, Erene (2009). "Performing Identities: Participatory Theatre among Refugees". In Wetherell, Margaret. Theorising Identity and Social Action. Palgrave macmillan. pp. 56–74. ISBN 978-1-349-36883-9. Search this book on
  44. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira; Marfleet, Philip, eds. (2012). Racism, Migration and the Politics of Belonging (PDF). Runnymede Publications. Retrieved 29 January 2019. Search this book on
  45. ↑ https://www.acss.org.uk/
  46. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira; Stoetzler, Marcel (2002). "Imagined Border and Boundaries: A Gendered Gaze". European Journal of Women's Studies. 9 (3): 329–334. Retrieved 29 January 2019.
  47. ↑ "Euborderscapes: Euborderscapes".
  48. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira; Wemyss, Georgie; Cassidy, Kathryn (2017). "Special Issue: Racialized Bordering Discourses on European Roma". Ethnic and Racial Studies. 40 (7). doi:10.1080/01419870.2017.1267382.
  49. ↑ Yuval-Davis, Nira; Wemyss, Georgie; Cassidy, Katheryn (2017). "Everyday Bordering, Belonging and the Re-Orientation of British Immigration Legislation". Sociology. 52 (2): 228–244. Retrieved 29 January 2019.

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