Publications


A. BOOKS
 

(1) Gershon Shafir, Land, Labor and the Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, 1882-1914, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1989. 

(2) Gershon Shafir, Immigrants and Nationalists: Ethnic Conflict and Accommodation in Catalonia, the Basque Country, Latvia, and Estonia, N.Y., State University of New York Press, 1995.

(3) Gershon Shafir, editor, The Citizenship Debates: A Reader, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

(4) Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled, editors, The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization, Boulder, Westview Press, 2000.

(5) Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled, Being Israeli: The Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2002.

(6) Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir, editors, People out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights and the Citizenship Gap, N.Y., Routledge, 2004.

(7) Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir, editors, National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007.
 

B. RESEARCH ARTICLES
 

(1) Gershon Shafir, "Organic Intellectuals and the Renaissance of the Hebrew Language," Sociologia Internationalis, Vol. 21, Nos. 1/2, 1983, pp. 215-242.

(2) Gershon Shafir, "Changing Nationalism and Israel's 'Open Frontier' on the West Bank," Theory and Society, Vol. 13, No. 6, November 1984, pp. 803-827.

(3) Gershon Shafir, "Institutional and Spontaneous Settlement Drives: Did Gush Emunim Make a Difference?" in The Impact of Gush Emunim: Politics and Settlement in the West Bank, edited by David Newman, London, Croom Helm, 1985, pp. 153-171.

(4) Gershon Shafir, "Interpretative Sociology and the Philosophy of Praxis: Comparing Max Weber and Antonio Gramsci,"Praxis International, Vol. 5, No. 1, April 1985, pp. 63-74.

Reprinted in James Martin ed., Antonio Gramsci: Critical Assessments of Leading Political Philosophers, London, Routledge, 2002, Vol. 2, pp. 49-61.

(5) Gershon Shafir, "The Incongruity Between Destiny and Merit: Max Weber on Meaningful Existence and Modernity,"British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 36, No. 4, December 1985, pp. 516-530.

(6) Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled, "'Thorns in Your Eyes:' The Socioeconomic Basis of the Kahane Vote," in The Elections in Israel - 1984, edited by Asher Arian and Michal Shamir, Tel-Aviv: Ramot, 1986, pp. 189-206.

Hebrew version in Medina, Memshal Veyachasim Benleumiyim, No. 25, 1986, pp. 115-129.

(7) Yoav Peled & Gershon Shafir, "From Caste to Exclusion: The Dynamics of Modernization in the Russian Pale of Settlement," Studies in Contemporary Jewry, No. 3, 1987, pp. 98-114.

(8) Yoav Peled & Gershon Shafir, "Split Labor Market and the State: The Effect of Modernization on Jewish Industrial Workers in Tsarist Russia," American Journal of Sociology, Vol. 92, No. 6, May 1987, pp. 1435-1460.

(9) Gershon Shafir, "The Meeting of Eastern Europe and Yemen: 'Idealist Workers' and 'Natural Workers' in Early Zionist Settlement in Palestine," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 13, No. 2, April 1990, pp. 172-197.

(10) Gershon Shafir, "Overdevelopment and Alternative Paths of Nationalism: A Comparison of Catalonia and the Baltic Republics," Journal of Baltic Studies, Vol. 23, No. 2, Summer 1992, pp. 105-120.

(11) Gershon Shafir, "Land, Labor, and Population in Zionist Colonization: General and Unique Aspects," in Uri Ram ed., Israeli Society: Critical Approaches, Breirot, Tel Aviv, 1993, pp. 104-119. In Hebrew

(12) Gershon Shafir, "Split Labor Market and the Sources of National Separatism in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," in Marcel Van Der Linden & Jan Lucassen eds., Racism and the Labor Market: Historical Studies, Bern, Peter Lang, 1995, pp. 437-456.

(13) Gershon Shafir, "Zionist Immigration and Colonization in Palestine until 1948," in Cambridge Survey of World Migrations, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1995, pp. 405-409.

(14) Gershon Shafir, "Zionism and Colonialism," in Michael N. Barnett ed., Israel In ComparativePerspective: Challenging the Conventional Wisdom, N.Y., SUNY Press, 1996, pp. 227-242.

Reprinted in Ilan Pappe ed., Bridging Narratives: New Orientations in the Historiography of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, London, Routledge, 1999, pp. 81-96.

(15) Gershon Shafir, "Israeli Society: A Counterview," Israel Studies, Vol. 1, No. 2, Fall 1996, pp. 189-213.

(16) Peled Yoav & Gershon Shafir, "The Roots of Peacemaking: The Dynamic of Citizenship in Israel," International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3, August 1996, pp. 391-413.

(17) Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled, "Citizenship and Stratification in an Ethnic Democracy," Ethnic and Racial Studies, Vol. 21, No. 3, May 1998, pp. 408-427.

Reprinted in David C. Jacobson & Kamal Abdel-Malek eds., Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and Literature., N.Y., St. Martin's Press, 1999, pp. 87-108.

To be reprinted in Noah Lewin-Epstein & Moshe Semyonov eds. Stratification in Israel, Israeli Sociological Association.

(18) Gershon Shafir, "Business in Politics: Globalization and the Search for Peace in South Africa and Israel/Palestine." in Israel Affairs, Vol. 5, No. 2, Winter 1998, pp. 102-119.

Reprinted in David Levi-Faur et.al. eds., Israel: The Dynamics of Change and Continuity, London, Frank Cass, 1999, pp. 103-120.

(19) Gershon Shafir, "The Jarring Mission," in Fifty to Forty-Eight: Critical Moments in the History of the State of Israel, Jerusalem, Van Leer Institute, 1999, pp. 205-213. In Hebrew.

(20) Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled, "Peace and Profit: The Globalization of Israeli Business and the Peace Process," in Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled editors, The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization, Boulder, Westview Press, 2000, pp. 243-264.

(21) Lev Louis Grinberg & Gershon Shafir, "Economic Liberalization and the Privatization of the Histadrut's Domain," in Gershon Shafir & Yoav Peled, editors, The New Israel: Peacemaking and Liberalization, Boulder, Westiew Press, 2000, pp. 103-127.

(22) Gershon Shafir, "Nationalism and Non-Racialism in South Africa," in Shlomo Ben-Ami et.al. eds., Ethnic Challenges to the Modern Nation-State, London, Macmillan, 2000, pp. 185-197.

(23) Gershon Shafir, “Citizenship and Human Rights in an Era of Globalization,“ in Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir, People Out of Place: Globalization, Human Rights, and the Citizenship Gap, N.Y., Routledge, 2004, pp. 11-25.

(24) Gershon Shafir, “Zionist Immigration Waves and Colonization in Palestine, 1882-1948,” in Akira Usuaki et. al. eds., Population Movement Beyond the Middle East, Japan Center for Area Studies, Osaka, 2005, pp. 25-38.

(25) Gershon Shafir, “Reflections on the Right of Return,” in Ian Lustick & Ann Lesch eds., Rights of Return, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005, pp. 297-317.

(26) Gershon Shafir, "Settler Citizenship in the Jewish Colonization of Palestine," in Caroline Elkins & Susan Pedersen, Settler Colonialism in the Twentieth Century: Project, Practices, Legacies, N.Y., Routledge, 2005, pp. 41-57.

(27) Gershon Shafir, "The Miscarriage of Peace: Israel, Egypt, the U.S., and the 'Jarring Plan' in the Early 1970's," Israel Studies Forum, Vol. 21, No. 1, Summer 2006, pp. 3-26.

(28) Gershon Shafir & Alison Brysk, "The Globalization of Rights: From Citizenship to Human Rights," Citizenship Studies,Vol. 10, No. 3, July 2006, pp. 275-287.

(29) Gershon Shafir, "Torturing Democracies: The Curious Debate over the 'Israeli Model,'" in Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir eds., National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism, Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007, pp. 92-117.

(30) Gershon Shafir, Alison Brysk, and Daniel Wehrenfennig, "Human Rights in Hard Times," in Alison Brysk & Gershon Shafir eds., National Insecurity and Human Rights: Democracies Debate Counterterrorism , Berkeley, University of California Press, 2007, pp. 177-187.

(31) Gershon Shafir, "Israeli-Palestinian Peacemaking and Its Discontents," Contexts, Vol.6, No.4, Fall 2007, pp. 46-51.

(32) Gershon Shafir, "Legal and Institutional Responses to Contemporary Global Threats: An Introduction to the Report of the U.N. Secretary-General's High Level Panel on Threats, Challenges, and Change," California Western International Law Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, Fall 2007, pp. 1-17.
 


C. IN PROGRESS
 

(1) Gershon Shafir & Cynthia Schairer, "'The 'War on Terror' as Moral Panic."

(2) Gershon Shafir, "Israeli Exceptionalism and the Sociology of Baruch Kimmerling."

(3) Gershon Shafir, "Capitalist Binationalism in Palestine and the 1936-1939 Arab Revolt."