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Education:
- Ph.D. Brandeis University, 1988
Research Interests:
- Desert ethnographies (in the Israeli Negev, in African desert regions, and in Rajasthan, India)
- International development (A critical perspective with particular attention to the way gender is introduced into the ?development? process)
- Non-western (postcolonial) feminist theories
- Social inequality (the intersections of class, gender, ethnicity and sexual identity)
- The Politics of Identities
- Social space
Current research projects:
- Nomadic People in Rajasthan, India.
- Social Space and Gendered Inequality in the Negev, Israel
Selected publications:
- O. Benjamin, D. Bernstein and P. Motzafi-Haller (2010) "Emotional politics in cleaning work: The case of Israel" Human Relations 63:11.
- P. Motzafi-Haller and Sarab Abu-Rabia Queder (2009) "The Politics of Gendered Development." A special issue of the journal Hagar. Vol 9,1. Autumn 2009 (English) 224 pages.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2009) "When classic ethnographic work is made impossible: The human politics of research in India" Journal of Anthropology and Humanism 43:2 pp 143-162.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (with Hanan Hever and Yehouda Shenhav) (eds.) (2002) Mizrahim in Israel: A Critical Observation into Israel's Ethnicity. Tel Aviv: Van Leer Institute and HaKibbutz HaMeuchad Publishing House; (Hebrew) 328 pages.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2006) "Reading Bell Hooks in Israel: Radical Feminism, Critical Thinking, and the New Sisterhood." In Yanay, N., El-Or, T. Lubin, O., and Nave, H. (eds) Venues of Feminist Thinking: A Reader. Tel Aviv: Open University (Hebrew).
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2005) "The Politics of Academic Teaching in Israel: How War Affects Our Teaching of Ethnicity, Gender and Social History" Journal of Women's History 17:4 pp. 170-175
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2005) "An Outline for a Critical Feminist Historiography in Israel." In Tova Cohen and Shaul Regev (eds.) Isha MeMizrach, Isha BaMirach (Women of the East, Women in the East) (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press) (Hebrew) pp 267-283.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2005)New Challenges in Historiographic and Sociological Research of Oriental Jewish Women.? In Tova Cohen and Shaul Regev (eds.) Isha MeMizrach, Isha BaMirach (Women of the East, Women in the East) (Ramat Gan: Bar Ilan University Press) (Hebrew) pp 9-22.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2004) "Religiosity, Gender and Class in a Desert Town" in Yossi Yona and Yehuda Goodman (eds) In the Maelstorm of Identities: A Critical Look at Religion and Secularity in Israel. Tel Aviv: The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz HaMeuchad Press. (Hebrew) pp. 316-346.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2002) "Mizrahi Intellectuals 1946-1951: Ethnic Identity and Its Boundaries." In Hever H., Shenhav Y., and P. Motzafi-Haller (eds.) in Mizrahim in Israel: A Critical Observation into Israel's Ethnicity. Tel Aviv: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and HaKibbutz HaMeuchad Publishing House. (Hebrew) pp. 152-191.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (2001) "Scholarship, Identity, and Power: Mizrahi Women in Israel" Signs Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 697-734.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (1998) ?Beyond Textual Analysis: Practice, Interacting Discourses and the Experience of Distinction in Botswana.? Cultural Anthropology 13,4: 522-548
- P. Motzafi-Haller (1997) ?Native Anthropologists and the Politics of Representation.? In Reed-Danahay D. (ed.) Auto/ethnography: Rewriting the Self and the Social. Oxford: Berg Publishers, pp. 169-195.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (1997) "You Have an Authentic Voice: Anthropological Research and the Politics of Representation." Teoriyah U'bikoret 11, pp. 81-99. (Hebrew)
- P. Motzafi-Haller (1997) ?The Politics of Space and Place in East-Central Botswana.? Canadian Journal of African Studies 31, 2, pp. 229-268.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (1996) ?Power, Identity, and History in Central Botswana.? Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power 2, 4. pp. 325-350.
- P. Motzafi-Haller (1994) "When Bushmen Are Known as Basarwa: Gender, Ethnicity, and Differentiation in Rural Botswana.? American Ethnologist, Vol. 21, No. 3. (Aug., 1994), pp. 539-563.
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