Yuval Feinstein
M.A, Sociology, UCLA. M.A, Sociology, University of Haifa, 2006 (Summa Cum Laude). B.A, Sociology and Anthropology, University of Haifa, 2003 (Summa Cum Laude). B.A Honors Program, University of Haifa, 2003 (Cum Laude).
Office: 211 Haines
Fax: 310-206-9838
E-mail:
yuval@ucla.edu
Subfield
Sociology of War, Collective Violence, Political Sociology, Comparative History, Comparative Ethnicity and Nationalism
Publications
Ben-Eliezer Uri & Yuval Feinstein (2009). “Politics of Borders and the Borders of Politics: Israel Separation Barrier and the Struggle Over Sovereignty and Autonomy.” Mobilization: The International Quarterly Review of Social Movement Research. 14(3): 357-374.
Feinstein, Yuval (2009). “Activists squeezed between the ‘Apartheid Wall’ and the ‘Separation Fence’: The radicalism/pragmatism dilemma of social movements: the case of the Israeli separation barrier.” In Elisabeth Marteu (ed.) “Civil Organizations and Protest Movements in Israel: Mobilization around the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” Palgrave MacMillan.
Ben-Eliezer, Uri & Yuval Feinstein (2007). “The Battle over our Home: Reconstructing/Deconstructing Sovereign Practices around Israel’s Separation Barrier on the West Bank”. Journal of Israel Studies, 12(1): 171-92.
--- Reprinted in Gabriel Sheffer and Oren Barak (eds.). “Militarism and Israeli Society.” Indiana University Press (2010).
Grants and Awards
UCLA:
·Fellowship by the Shapiro Foundation 2006-7
·Fellowship by the Pauley Foundation 2006-7, 2009-10
·Departmental award stipend 2006-9
University of Haifa, Israel:
·Israeli Sociological Association, Award for Master’s Thesis with Great Distinction, 2007
·The Wolf Foundation to Promote Science and Art for the Benefit of Mankind, Scholarship for M.A. Candidates, January 12, 2005
·Yad-Tabenkin: Research Center of the Kibbutz Movement, Scholarship, 2005
·Dean of Graduate Studies' Award, University of Haifa, 2005
·Dean of Graduate Studies' award for the Best M.A. Candidate of the Sociology Department, University of Haifa, 2004
·Dean of Graduate Studies' Award, University of Haifa, 2004
·Dean of Social Sciences' Award for the B.A Degree (Summa Cum Laude)
·Dean of Social Sciences' Award, 2003
·Dean of Social Sciences' Award, 2002
·Full fellowship for first year B.A. candidates at the University of Haifa's Honors Program, 2000-1
Conference Presentations
International:
Chair of “Peace and War” Session. Israel in the 21st Century: New Hopes, New Challenges. San Diego: San Diego State Univeristy. May 10, 2009.
“Activists squeezed between the ‘Apartheid Wall’ and the ‘Separation Fence’: The influence of different frames of action against the Israeli separation barrier.” Social and Political Mobilization in the Israeli-Palestinian Context. Jerusalem: Centre de Recherché Français de Jerusalem. April 24, 2006.
“The Double-Edge Sword of Human Rights Discourse: Paradox of Universalism and Particularism in Contentions over the Construction of a Separation Barrier between Israel and Palestinian Occupied Territories.” Reframing Human rights. Berlin: WZB Social Science Research Center & Humboldt University. October 4, 2005.
USA:
The Global Spread of the Nation-State: An Event History Analysis of nation-state formation, 1816-2001.” Social Science History Association Annual Meeting. Long Beach, California. November 14, 2009. (with Andreas Wimmer)
“Money and Sympathy: Exploring Multiple Roles and Statuses of U.S. Veterans Who Participate in a Work-Therapy Program.” The American Sociological Association Annual Meeting. San-Francisco, California. August 10, 2009.
“Nationalism’s Rise to Power Across the World: An Event History Analysis of nation-state formation, 1816-2001.” ASA Comparative History Section’s mini-conference. Berkeley California. August 12, 2009. (with Andreas Wimmer)
Israeli:
“Anarchists, Soldiers and the Fence between them: A Symbolic Battle over the Political Space.” The Israeli Sociological Association’s Annual Conference. Bar-Ilan University, February 23, 2006. [Hebrew]
“The dilemma of Radicalism Vs. Pragmatism in Grassroots Activities Opposed to the Construction of the Israeli Separation Barrier.” Military, Politics and Society in Israel: Toward disengagement? The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. May 24, 2005. [Hebrew]
“The Civic Criteria Vs. the Military Criteria: Dynamics of Contention Against the Construction of Separation Barrier Between Israel and Palestine, Causes of Success and Failure.” Civil-Military Relations in Israel. Neve-Ilan. March 18, 2005. [Hebrew]
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