{"id":454,"date":"2020-01-23T06:14:25","date_gmt":"2020-01-23T06:14:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/?p=454"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:30:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T09:30:58","slug":"new-article-in-middle-eastern-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/2020\/01\/23\/new-article-in-middle-eastern-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"New article in Middle Eastern Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My first foray into historical sociology <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00263206.2019.1664476\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published&nbsp;in Middle Eastern Studies<\/a> (with Ronen Shamir). Our study traces the politics of census-making in British-ruled Palestine surrounding the question of Arab landlessness. Based on archival work, we demonstrate how Jewish statistical expertise and British adherence to their colonial experience in India allowed them to shape the 1931 Census of Palestine, and the type of data it would collect, without appearing political.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"765\" height=\"482\" src=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson1\/files\/2020\/01\/Abba-Ahimeir-member-of-the-Zionist-Revisionist-Movement-standing-next-to-wall-graffiti.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/files\/2020\/01\/Abba-Ahimeir-member-of-the-Zionist-Revisionist-Movement-standing-next-to-wall-graffiti.jpg 765w, https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/files\/2020\/01\/Abba-Ahimeir-member-of-the-Zionist-Revisionist-Movement-standing-next-to-wall-graffiti-300x189.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 984px) 61vw, (max-width: 1362px) 45vw, 600px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Abba Ahimeir, member of the Zionist Revisionist Movement, standing next to wall graffiti urging Jews not to participate in the census. November 1931, unknown photographer, Jabotinsky Institute in Israel.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My first foray into historical sociology published&nbsp;in Middle Eastern Studies (with Ronen Shamir). Our study traces the politics of census-making in British-ruled Palestine surrounding the question of Arab landlessness. Based on archival work, we demonstrate how Jewish statistical expertise and British adherence to their colonial experience in India allowed them to shape the 1931 Census &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/2020\/01\/23\/new-article-in-middle-eastern-studies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New article in Middle Eastern Studies&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":100,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/100"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1181,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/1181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.socsci.tau.ac.il\/mu\/isasson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}