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Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2023). Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14057

The article offers an ethnographically embedded analysis of a UK-based Jewish-Muslim inter-community network to contribute to anthropological research into the ethical efforts that groups seen as polarized invest in negotiating boundaries of differen... Read More about Ethics without Borders: Solidarity and Difference in Inter-community Dialogue.

How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt (2023)
Journal Article
Roth, Z. (2023). How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt. New Literary History, 54(2), 1059-1083

In the wake of the Trump election, Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism garnered renewed attention. In it, she argues that totalitarian ideology "is severed from the world individuals perceive through the five senses "and insists on a 'truer' r... Read More about How to Survive Totalitarianism. Lessons from Hannah Arendt.

Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom (2023)
Journal Article
Egorova, Y. (2023). Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom. Anthropological Theory, 24(1), 67-87. https://doi.org/10.1177/14634996231179520

Building upon ethnographic research conducted among participants in UK-based initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue, the paper contributes to anthropological literature on the essentialising nature of state-sponsored constructions of minoritised group... Read More about Common difference: Conceptualising simultaneity and racial sincerity in Jewish-Muslim relations in the United Kingdom.

Willy Meisl’s “German Football Nation”: Internationalism, Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing (2022)
Book Chapter
Schiller, K. (2022). Willy Meisl’s “German Football Nation”: Internationalism, Austrian Patriotism, and Jewish Pride in Interwar Sports Writing. In R. Dawson, B. Heinsohn, O. Knabe, & A. McDougall (Eds.), Football Nation: the Playing Fields of German Culture, History, and Society (83-101). Berghahn Journals. https://doi.org/10.3167/9781800736818

‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity (2022)
Book Chapter
Egorova, Y. (2022). ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity. In B. Gidley, & S. S. Everett (Eds.), Jews and Muslims in Europe: Between Discourse and Experience (231-249). Brill Academic Publishers. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004514331_012

Building upon an ethnographic study of initiatives in Jewish-Muslim dialogue in the UK, I explore the way Muslim participants in such initiatives conceptualise the position of their community in the UK in relation to that of their Jewish co-citizens.... Read More about ‘This is just where we are in history’: Jewish-Muslim dialogue, temporality, and modalities of solidarity.

Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature (2022)
Book
Roth, Z. (2022). Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature. Edinburgh University Press

Formal Matters re-examines the postmodernist insistence that the body escapes signification by turning to an unexpected source: early and mid-century formalisms. Bringing together formalism’s endeavour to give shape to the ineffable with postmodernis... Read More about Formal Matters: Embodied Experience in Modern Literature.

Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–1959 (2022)
Journal Article
Jones, C. (2022). Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–1959. Middle Eastern Studies, 58(3), 402-420. https://doi.org/10.1080/00263206.2022.2047656

Recent conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan have reawakened interest as well as controversies over how Western militaries tried to engage, with varying degrees of success, with the ‘Human Terrain’. These debates are far from new. This article explores t... Read More about Anthropologists, Topographers, Diplomats, and Spies: Royal Air Force Intelligence Officers in South Arabia 1954–1959.

Getting the Better of the Bargain: Technical Intelligence, Arms Sales, and Anglo-Israeli Relations 1967–1974 (2021)
Journal Article
Jones, C. (2021). Getting the Better of the Bargain: Technical Intelligence, Arms Sales, and Anglo-Israeli Relations 1967–1974. Diplomacy and Statecraft, 32(3), 531 - 553. https://doi.org/10.1080/09592296.2021.1961489

This analysis explores the nature of Anglo-Israeli intelligence relations between 1967 and 1974, focusing in particular on how the legacy of the British mandate in Palestine, the influence of senior British diplomats, as well as wider commercial inte... Read More about Getting the Better of the Bargain: Technical Intelligence, Arms Sales, and Anglo-Israeli Relations 1967–1974.

The Sport in History Journal (2021)
Book Chapter
Day, D., & Schiller, K. (2022). The Sport in History Journal. In M. Phillips, D. Booth, & C. Adams (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Sport History (353-359). Routedge

A Plural Theory on Responsibility in International Relations (2021)
Book Chapter
Baron, I. Z. (2021). A Plural Theory on Responsibility in International Relations. In H. Hansen-Magnusson, & A. Vetterlein (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook on Responsibility in International Relations (31-42). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429266317

This chapter offers an outline for a plural theory of responsibility. Responsibility is what someone does and who someone is. One is responsible. You are responsible. One acts responsibly. Responsibility is ontological and phenomenological, and the a... Read More about A Plural Theory on Responsibility in International Relations.

Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism (2021)
Journal Article
Baron, I., & Press-Barnathan, G. (2021). Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism. International Political Sociology, 15(3), 338-358. https://doi.org/10.1093/ips/olab007

The paper explores the political narratives produced in English-language Israeli cookbooks. We examine an understudied yet central component of everyday International Relations, everyday nationalism, and identity contestations as practiced through ga... Read More about Foodways and Foodwashing: Israeli Cookbooks and The Politics of Culinary Zionism.