ConstellationsVolume 29, Issue 1 p. 19-33 CRITIQUE OF THE COLONIAL PARADIGM Al-e Ahmad, guardianship, and the critique of colonial sovereignty Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, Corresponding Author Sadeghi-Boroujerdi [email protected] Department Politics International Relations at Goldsmiths, University London, UK Correspondence New Cross, London SE14 6NW, UK. Email: protected]Search for more papers...

The experience of World War I has long been understood as the truly definitive experience of that generation which took part in the war; what is clear from the second volume of the Freud-Ferenczi exchange is how greatly it impacted on the Father's generation. The experience of the Hungarian psychoanalyst Saindor Ferenczi as an almost combatant is well documented here; he was billeted as a physi...

Over the weekend following Christmas 2015, as many as 10,000 Muslims convened at Chicago’s McCormick Place for the 14th annual Muslim American Society-Islamic Circle of North America (MAS-ICNA) Convention. Neatly bearded men, typically in casual western clothes were much in evidence, along with a few in business suits and some in traditional, billowing cotton tunics and pants. As for the women,...

Is liberation theology geographically divided or thematically unified? How is Jewish related to other such theologies? The lifework of Marc H. Ellis demonstrates the continued relevance this movement born from political struggles in Latin America 1970s. This edited volume gathers contributions a Festschrift conference held at Perkins School Theology Dallas, TX, April 2018. range authors represe...

In response to Ian Lustick’s article on Israel’s migration balance in the previous issue of Israel Studies Review, I question the author’s (lack of) theoretical frame, data handling, and conclusions, all set up against a robust narrative. I show that, until 2010, Israel displayed a positive, if weakened, migration balance and that immigration trends continued to reflect conditions among Diaspor...

This article looks at six months of the author's repeated attempts to obtain approval three Helsinki Committees (HCs, Israeli hospitals’ research ethics committees) conduct ethnographic with Palestinian physicians in hospitals. While was eventually approved and carried out two these institutions, correspondence HC representatives, as well evidence their informal moves institutions’ management, ...

This study examined linguistic patterns in the Jewish ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, a group that has rarely been studied from a sociolinguistic perspective. Participants were 92 girls, 10-12 years old, who attend a school where Yiddish is the language of instruction and Hebrew, Israel’s official language, is studied only in religious contexts. Results show that the girls use and prefer to...