People
Smadar Lavie
Smadar Lavie is a cultural anthropologist. Her first book, The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina
Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Israeli and Egyptian Rule (1990), has become a multidisciplinary
classic, and is still in print and in demand. She has conducted research in Egypt since 1975. Her
co-edited collection, Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity (1996) is widely cited
as criticizing the academic US-European hegemony of cultural studies, by returning to the dispersed, global
daily realities from which the theoretical representations were derived. She is completing a book manuscript
on Mizrahi women, Palestine, and the racial formations of Israel. She has been working in Palestine/Israel
since 1989. Lavie is a member of several Palestine/Israel feminist and anti-racist NGOs. Her writings,
teaching and activism have inspired students, scholars and activists.
Address:
Studies in Women and Gender
227 Minor Hall
University of Virginia
Charlottesville, Va 22903
s.lavie@virginia.edu
434-982-2961
Fax: 434-924-6969
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