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2014 <\/span>\n Conscientious Objectors in Israel: Citizenship, Sacrifice, Trials of Fealty<\/span>\n <\/a> <\/span>\n Penn Press<\/strong> \n <\/p>\n

This book examines the experiences of Israeli conscientious objectors who refuse to serve in the military because of feelings of ethical objections to the occupation of Palestine.  It chronicles the personal experiences of Jewish Israeli conscientious objectors as they grapple with their conscience, and try to justify their actions to society.<\/p>\n

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Forthcoming 2025 (accepted), Beyond Public Reason: Introduction, written with Charis Boutieri and Sami Everett.<\/span>\n JRAI- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong>, Special Issue Competition Winner Beyond Public Reason-editors and contributors. Participants: Heath Cabot, Farhan Samanani, Carol Greenhouse, Natalie Morningstar, Moises Lino e Silva, Andrew Shyrock\n <\/p>\n

Forthcoming 2025 (accepted) Reasoning without Consensus: Grassroots Experiments in Radical Inclusion in Israel\/Palestine.<\/span>\n JRAI- Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

2024 Divergent and Emergent Political Theologies of Peace Amongst Jewish Israelis<\/span>. Political Theology<\/strong>. 25 (4): 361-379\n <\/p>\n

2022 Peace and Liberal Misrecognition: Non-liberal peace initiatives in Israel-Palestine<\/span>. The American Sociologist<\/strong>.  Accepted.\n <\/p>\n

2022 Adjudicating the Spiritual World in Israeli Courts: Dilemmas of Equality of Justice<\/span>\n <\/a>. Religion, State, and Society <\/strong>50 (1): 5-21\n <\/p>\n

\n  <\/strong>2020 Nissim Mizrachi and Erica Weiss<\/strong>  \u201cWe do not want to assimilate!\u201d: Rethinking the role of group boundaries in peace initiatives between Muslims and Jews in Israel and in the West Bank<\/a>. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology<\/strong>, Vol 7, Num 2: 172-197.\n <\/p>\n

2019 Erica Weiss and Nissim Mizrachi A Time of Peace: Divergent Temporalities in Jewish-Palestinian Peace Initiatives<\/span>\n <\/a>.  HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory<\/strong>, Vol 9, Num 3: 565\u2013578.\n <\/p>\n

2019  Struggling with Complicity: anti-militarist activism in Israel<\/span>\n <\/a>. Current Anthropology<\/strong>, Vol 60, Num S19: 173-182.\n <\/p>\n

2018 State-Authorizing Citizenship: the narrow field of civic engagement in the liberal age<\/span>\n <\/a>.  Theory and Society<\/strong>, Vol 47, Num 4: 467-86\n <\/p>\n

2017 <\/strong>\n Competing ethical regimes in a diverse society: Israeli military refuser<\/span>s\n <\/a>.  American Ethnologist<\/strong>, February 2017\n <\/p>\n

2016 <\/span>\n Best Practices for Besting the Bureaucracy: avoiding military service in Israel<\/span>\n <\/a>. PoLAR<\/strong>, 39(1)\n <\/p>\n

2016 Refusal as Act, Refusal as Abstention<\/span>\n <\/a>, Cultural Anthropology<\/strong>, 31(3)\n <\/p>\n

2016 \u2018There are no chickens in suicide vests\u2019: the Decoupling of Animal Rights and Human Rights in Israel<\/span>\n <\/a>. JRAI<\/strong>, 22(3)\n <\/p>\n

2016 Incentivized Obedience: How a Gentler Israeli Military Prevents Organized Resistance<\/a>. American Anthropologist<\/strong>, 118(1)\n <\/p>\n

2015 Provincializing Empathy: Humanitarian Sentiment and The Israeli Palestinian Conflict<\/span>\n <\/a>. Anthropological Theory<\/strong> 15(3)\n <\/p>\n

2015 Beyond Mystification: Hegemony, Resistance, and Ethical Responsibility in Israel<\/span>\n <\/a>.  Anthropological Quarterly<\/strong> 88(2)\n <\/p>\n

2014 <\/span>\n Sacrifice as Social Capital among Israeli Conscientious Objectors<\/span>\n <\/a>.  Ethnos<\/strong> 79(3)\n <\/p>\n

2012 Principle or Pathology? Adjudicating the Right to Conscience in the Israeli Military<\/span>\n <\/a>. American Anthropologist<\/strong> 114(1)\n <\/p>\n

2011 The Interrupted Sacrifice: Hegemony and moral crisis among Israeli conscientious objectors<\/span>\n <\/a>. American Ethnologist<\/strong> 38(3)\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n

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Forthcoming. Invited Commentary on Joel Robbins article \u201cAnthropology Bright and Dark\u201d. Social Analysis.<\/strong>\n <\/p>\n

2024 Speaking Truth to Israel Requires More Than Academic Freedom, Sapiens Magazine<\/strong>. https:\/\/www.sapiens.org\/culture\/palestine- israel-censorship-free-speech\/<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

Weiss, Erica. 2021. \u201cPseudonyms as Anti-Citation.\u201d In \u201cRethinking Pseudonyms in Ethnography,\u201d edited by Carole McGranahan and Erica Weiss, American Ethnologist<\/strong> website, 13 December 2021, https:\/\/americanethnologist.org\/features\/collections\/rethinking-pseudonyms-in-ethnography\/pseudonyms-as-anti-citation<\/a>\n <\/p>\n

Weiss, Erica, and Carole McGranahan. 2021. \u201cRethinking Pseudonyms in Ethnography: An Introduction.\u201d In \u201cRethinking Pseudonyms in Ethnography,\u201d edited by Carole McGranahan and Erica Weiss, American Ethnologist<\/strong> website, 13 December 2021, https:\/\/americanethnologist.org\/features\/collections\/rethinking-pseudonyms-in-ethnography\/rethinking-pseudonyms-in-ethnography-an-introduction<\/a>\n <\/p>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/section>\n \n \n \n \n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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