Tal Nitsan

PhD student
MA in Sociology & Social Anthropology (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
BA in Sociology & Social Anthropology and Latin American Studies (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Supervisor: Bruce Miller

Research interests: Anthropology of Violence (particularly sexual oriented violence in ethno-national conflicts), anthropology of Law (primarily the relations between Law, Violence, and Society), Feminist Anthropology, Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality, Latin America, and Human Rights.

Current Projects: My work focuses on the study of Femicide, the killing of women and girls by males because they are females. My research will take place in Guatemala, a country in which the violence against both men and women has increased in the past few years. However, the murders of women are distinct for their rapid increase as well as for their misogynistic nature. As Femicide has become a dominant phenomenon that shapes the Guatemalan everyday realty, I am interested to learn how fear is translated into everyday life practices; whether and how the perpetrators are related to the legacy of state terror; how laws, their enforcement, and a legacy of impunity shape violence; and how media impacts both the reproduction of and the potential to diminish the phenomenon.

Publications:

Nitsan, Tal. (2007). Controlled Occupation: The Rarity of Military Rape in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Shaine Working Papers Vol. 12. Jerusalem: The Shaine Center for Research in Social Science.

Nitsan, Tal. (2007). Questioning Cultural Boundaries- Faye Turney and the

Manipulation of Stereotypes. Views from the Edge. Occasional Working Papers.

Vol. 15 (1):85-95. Centre for Women's and Gender Studies, UBC, Vancouver.

Nitsan, Tal. (2007). Reflections on Methodology and Ethics of doing Anthropology of the Absence of Violence "At Home" Humans: Anthropological Perspectives on Holism. Department of Anthropology, UBC, Vancouver.

Nitsan, Tal. (2006). The Rarity of Military Rape in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Master's thesis, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.