Lecturers Page Dr. Regev Nathansohn

Dr. Regev Nathansohn

ד"ר רגב נתנזון הוא אנתרופולוג (PhD מאוניברסיטת מישיגן, אן ארבור) וחבר סגל במחלקה לתקשורת. רגב חוקר ומלמד בתחומים של עירוניות דיגיטלית (ערים "חכמות"), אנתרופולוגיה חזותית, תקשורת שיתופית ומחקר אקטיביסטי.

Regev Nathansohn (he/him/his) is a lecturer in the Department of Communications at Sapir College, Israel. Regev is an experienced researcher, lecturer, and writer in the fields of visual and media anthropology, urban anthropology ("smart" cities), and engaged research, and since 2019 he is co-directing Sapir’s Digital Urbanism Innovation Lab. He holds a Ph.D. in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from the University of Michigan (Ann Arbor).

Areas of interest and Teaching

Areas of interest

  • Visual Anthropology
  • Anthropology of Media and New Media
  • Digital Anthropology
  • Urban Anthropology and Anthropology of "Smart" Cities
  • Ethnic and Racial Relations
  • Engaged Research
  • Societies in Israel

Teaching

Hebrew lective year: תשפד

Research

I am currently conducting ethnographic research on "Smart" Cities. Please contact me by email for further details.

Awards


Publications

Edited Book

2013    Sociology of the Visual Sphere (primary editor; co-edited with Dennis Zuev). New York: Routledge. [E-book published in 2013; Paperback in 2015].

 

Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals

2022    “From Urban Vitality to Urban Vitalisation: Trust, Distrust and Citizenship Regimes in a Smart City Initiative” (co-authored with Lihi Lahat; Equal contribution), Cities 131:1-11. DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103969. (I.F.: 6.077; 5 years I.F.: 6.788; JCI: Q1-Urban Studies).

2019    “A Film Never Completed: Representing Social Relations in a Mixing Neighborhood”, Anthropology of the Middle East 14(1): 108-124.

2010    “Imagining Interventions: Coexistence from Below and the Ethnographic project”, Collaborative Anthropologies Vol. 3: 93—101. PDF

2010    “Soldier-Photographer and the Double-Bind of Photographic Practice”, Critical Asian Studies 42(3):437—440. PDF

2007    “Shooting Occupation: The Sociology of Visual Representation”, Theory and Criticism 31, Fall 2007, pp. 127—154 [in Hebrew]. PDF

2007    “Ways of Socio-Visualizing”, Visual Studies 22(1):87.

 

Chapters in Peer-Reviewed Edited Volumes

Forthcoming    Discourse of Separation: Taboos and De-Politicization in Haifa’s Guided Tours”, in Dafna Hirsch (ed.) Entangled Histories in Palestine and Israel: Historical and Anthropological Perspectives. Under preliminary contract with Routledge [Forthcoming in 2023].

2022    Invisible Smart Cities”, in Benjamin Linder (ed.), Invisible Cities and The Urban Imagination. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. 293—301 DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13048-9_22.

2019    “Purifying the Description: Coexistence as Discourse of Separation in Haifa City Tours”, in Dafna Hirsch (ed.) Encounters: History and Anthropology of the Israeli-Palestinian Space. Jerusalem and Tel Aviv: Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House [in Hebrew]. Pp. 430—459.

2013    “Sociology of the Visual Sphere: Introduction” (primary author; co-authored with Dennis Zuev), in Regev Nathansohn and Dennis Zuev (eds.) Sociology of the Visual Sphere. New York: Routledge. Pp. 1—9. PDF

2012    “History in the Eye of the Present: Coexistence from the Bottom Up in Research and Practice”, in Rolly Rozen (ed.) Haifa: Between Reality and a Vision for a Shared City. Haifa: Shatil. Pp. 408—413 [in Hebrew]. PDF

2011    “Haifa Umm al-Gharib: History Notes and Memory of Inter-Communal Relations” (primary author; co-authored with Abbas Shiblak), in Mahmoud Yazbak and Yfaat Weiss (eds.) Haifa Before and After 1948: Narratives of a Mixed City. Dordrecht: Republic of Letters. Pp. 181—203. PDF

 

Guest Editor

2016    “Sociology as/of Visual Activism”, Special Sub-Section in Current Sociology 64(1): 83—156. PDF

 

Entries in Encyclopedias and Lexicons

2021    Visualizing Covid-19”, in Uri Ram, Shlomo Svirsky and Nitza Berkovitch (eds.) The Corona Lexicon of Sociology, Adva Center and Israeli Sociology 21(2): 350—351 [in Hebrew]. URL; Video

2021    Zoomester”, in Uri Ram, Shlomo Svirsky and Nitza Berkovitch (eds.) The Corona Lexicon of Sociology, Adva Center and Israeli Sociology 21(2): 274—275 [in Hebrew]. URL

2013    “Visual Sociology” (with Dennis Zuev), in George Ritzer and J. Michael Ryan (eds.) Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology. Blackwell Publishing, 2007. Blackwell Reference Online. DOI: 10.1111/b.9781405124331.2007.x. URL

 

Book Reviews

2019    Jaffa Shared and Shattered: Contrived Coexistence in Israel/Palestine, by Daniel Monterescu, Bloomington: Indiana University Press. In Israeli Sociology 20(1):122—124 [in Hebrew]. PDF

2014    The Jewish-Arab City: Spatio-Politics in a Mixed Community, by Haim Yacobi, Oxon: Routledge. In Israeli Sociology 16(1):190-192 [in Hebrew]. PDF

2013    Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives, by Efrat Ben-Ze'ev, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. In Comparative Studies in Society and History 55(02):514—515. PDF

2010    Erased from Space and Consciousness: Depopulated Palestinian Villages in the Israeli-Zionist Discourse, by Noga Kadman, Jerusalem: November Books. In Israeli Sociology 12(1): 249—252 [in Hebrew]. PDF

2002    Newspapers under the Influence, by Daniel Dor. Tel Aviv: Babel. In Israeli Sociology, 4(2): 516—518 [in Hebrew]. PDF

 

Research Reports

2022    “‘Mixed’ and ‘Smart’ Cities: Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Applications” (co-authored with Lihi Lahat), The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace.

Presentations

Participation in Peer-Reviewed Conferences [since 2020]

6/2023 accepted Sensitive Content: The Genealogy of Algorithmic Aura in Visual Culture, XX ISA World Congress of Sociology, Melbourne, Australia.

2/2023             “Invisible Smart Cities, the annual conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, Tel Aviv University.

2/2023             “Smart and/or Just? Understanding Digital Urban Citizenship, the annual conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, Tel Aviv University. Co-authored with Oren Yiftachel, Hagit Keysar and Erez Tzfadia.

10/2022           We Came for the Security, and Stayed for the Rubbish: CCTV Projects in Israeli Cities”, The 2nd Annual Conference of the Israel Urban Research Community, The Open University, Israel. Co-authored with Ronen Eidelman.

10/2022           Mixed and Smart Cities: The Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Applications”, Sapir Conference for Research, Creativity and Teaching, Sapir College, Israel. Co-authored with Lihi Lahat.

7/2022             “Invisible Smart Cities: Reading Calvino through Algorithmic Eyes”, EASST 2022 Conference, Madrid, Spain. URL

6/2022             “A film Never Completed”, Art, Research and Critical Education: Significant Moments, Insights and Experiences, Tel-Hai College.

6/2022             Mixed and Smart Cities: The Challenges and Opportunities of Digital Applications”, Beyond Smart Cities Today: Power, Justice and Resistance, Malmö, Sweden. Co-authored with Lihi Lahat. URL

6/2022             “Visualizing Smart City Futures”, RAI2022: Anthropology, AI and the Future of Human Society. Virtual. URL

7/2021             “A bottom-up perspective on a smart city initiative: Trust, distrust and citizenship regime”, the 5th International Conference on Public Policy (ICPP5), the International Public Policy Association (IPPA), Barcelona, Spain (virtual). Co-authored with Lihi Lahat.

6/2021             “Anthropological Perspectives on ‘Smart’ Cities and Urban Algorithms”, the annual conference of the Israeli Society for the History and Philosophy of Sciences, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

6/2021             Can Distrust Lead to Citizens' Involvement in Smart Cities? The Israeli Case of a Neighbourhood in Haifa”, 37th Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies (AIS), University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (virtual). Co-authored with Lihi Lahat.

5/2021             Anthropology as Work, Here and Now, roundtable participant, the annual conference of the Israeli Anthropological Association (virtual).

2/2021             “Zoomester”, the annual conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, Sapir Academic College (virtual).

3/2020             “Smart Communities in Netivot”, the annual conference of the Israel Planners Association, Sderot (collaborative paper).

2/2020             “Sociology and the Urban Algorithm: Challenges of Decoding Smart Cities”, the annual conference of the Israeli Sociological Society, Bar Ilan University.

 

 

Links to

https://www.linkedin.com/in/regev-nathansohn/

https://sapir.academia.edu/RegevNathansohn