Jasmin Habib, Associate Professor, completed her B.A. (Hons.) in Sociology at Trent University and her M.A. in International Peace Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Jasmin has undertaken an active programme of research since completing her PhD in Cultural Anthropology at McMaster University (2000). She completed Israel, Diaspora and the National Routes of Belonging (2004, University of Toronto), her book-length study of diaspora Jews and their relationship to Israel and the Israel-Palestine conflict. It has been reviewed in the Globe and Mail as well as in the academic journals, Identities, Journal of Palestine Studies and Israel Studies. Research initially supported by a SSHRC Postdoctoral fellowship and extended to include funding from a SSHRC Major Collaborative Research Initiative on Globalization and Autonomy at McMaster University, allowed Jasmin to delve further into the prisms of the diasporic relationships to Israel-Palestine. In this period, she wrote several articles and chapters including, "Both Sides, Now: Reflections on the Israel-Palestine Conflict for Human Rights Quarterly; "Memorialising the Holocaust: Ethnographic Encounters" for Anthropologica; "'We were living in a different country': Palestinian Nostalgia and the Future Past" in Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities, edited by Daniel Rabinowitz and Dan Monterescu (U.K., Ashgate Publishing); and “Transnational Transformation: Cyberactivism and the Palestinian Right of Return," in Globalization, Autonomy and Communities, edited by Diana Brydon and William Coleman (UBC Press). "Property Rites: Cultural Narrations of the Palestinian Catastrophe," in Property Rights, Contestation, and Autonomy, edited by William Coleman and John Weaver (UBC Press) is currently under review.
Over the years, Jasmin has been awarded grants to support her research. Most recently, her long-standing interest in ethnographic writing, displaced communities and Indigenous Studies was rewarded when she joined Professor Harvey Feit and the James Bay Cree in a successful SSHRC Standard Research grant application (2008). The project, “Ethnography and Indigenous Co-Authorship: Multi-Vocal Texts and a Monograph on James Bay Crees Visions and Practices of Relational Co-Governance” explores and responds to questions of representation, and the responsibilities and possibilities for co-authorship.
Jasmin continues to work on the transnational relationships that emerge at the crossroads of the Israel/Palestine conflict in a project entitled “Diaspora Dissidents: Crossing the Israel/Palestine Divide”. Her goal is to produce: an oral history of Jewish North American left activism and its relationship to Israel; an examination of the concern for an emerging rise of anti-Semitism among left or global justice activists; and a multi-sited ethnography of Jewish activist organizations that have been the source of public critique of Israel, especially in relation to Palestinians.
Dr. Habib's office is PAS 2015, and her phone number is (519) 888-4567, ext 32603. She can also be reached on jhabib@uwaterloo.ca
2004. Israel, Diaspora and the Routes of National Belonging. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
2008. Dominguez, Virginia R. "When Belonging Inspires-Death, Hope, Distance". Identities, 15:3, 369-389.
2006. Theodore Sasson, Israel Studies, 11(2):162-167.
2005. Nahla Abdo, Journal of Palestine Studies, 35(1):pp.112-13.
2004. N.Morris, "Daughter of a divided land." Globe and Mail. Nov. 24, PD17.
Forthcoming. "Property Rites: Narrating Palestinian Presence". In Property Rights, Contestation and Autonomy. Eds. William Coleman and John Weaver. University of British Columbia Press.
2008. "Transnational Transformation: Cyberactivism and the Palestinian Right of Return." In Renogotiating Community: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Global Contexts. Eds. Diana Brydon and William Coleman. University of British Columbia Press.
2007. "'We were living in a different country': Palestinian Nostalgia and the Future Past". In Mixed Towns, Trapped Communities: Historical Narratives, Spatial Dynamics, Gender Relations and Cultural Encounters in Ethnically Mixed Towns in Israel/ Palestine. Eds. Dan Rabinowitz and Daniel Monterescu. Ashgate Publishing. Pp. 65-84.
1999. Weir, Lorna, and Jasmin Habib. "The Report of the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies: A Critical Feminist Analysis? Feminism, Political Economy and the State: Contested Terrain, Eds. Pat Armstrong and Pat Connelly. Canadian Scholar's Press. Pp. 327-43. (Reprint).
2008. "Gender, nationalism and resistance: Nahla Abdo and the Critical Politics of Palestine". The Review of Education/Pedagogy/Cultural Studies. 30(5):437-463.
2007. "Both Sides Now: Reflections on the Israel-Palestine Conflict. Human Rights Quarterly. November. 29(4):1098-1118.
2007. "Memorialising the Holocaust in Israel: Ethnographic Encounters." Anthropologica. 49:245-56.
1997. Epp, Timothy, Jasmin Habib, Nancy Lewis, Karen Saylors. Concluding Comments, Representation and the Postcolonial Order. Culture. 27(1-2): 87-88.
1997. Weir, Lorna, and Jasmin Habib. The Report of the Canadian Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies: A Critical Feminist Analysis. Society and Political Economy (Spring) 52:137-154.
Forthcoming. "B'Tselem: A Human Rights Non-governmental Organisation." Oxford Encyclopedia of Human Rights. Ed. David Forsythe. United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
2007. Review of "Diaspora, Memory, and Identity: The Search for Home." Edited by Vijay Agnew. New Dawn: Journal of Black Canadian Studies. Available at: http://aries.oise.utoronto.ca/dawn/journal/viewissue.php
2005. Review of "Maya Rosenfeld, Confronting the Occupation: Work, Education, and Political Activism of Palestinian Families in a Refugee Camp." Canadian Journal of Sociology. Online. March-April. Available at:
http://aries.oise.utoronto.ca/dawn/ journal/viewissue.php
2005. Review of "Take Back Higher Education by Henry Giroux and Susan Searls Giroux; and the Terror of Neoliberalism: Authoritarianism and the Eclipse of Democracy by Henry A. Giroux. Review. Politics and Culture. Issue 1.
Available at: http://aspen.conncoll. edu/politicsandculture/
2002. Review of "Journeying Forward: Dreaming First Nations Independence" by Patricia Monture-Angus (1999) for Resources in Feminist Research, 29 (1&2):150-4.
2002. Review of "Feminist Fields: Ethnographic Insights", edited Rae Bridgman, Sally Cole and Heather Howard-Bobiwash (1999), Anthropologica. Winter. Pp. 309-10.
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