Tova Benski

• phd
• CEO at College of Management Academic Studies

For me, a scholar of social movements, all forms of protest are social and express some disagreement with authorities, with some laws or with accepted and even taken-for-granted practices. They all involve emotions and aim to change or stop certain shifts in society, culture and/or the political sphere. As the call for papers states, the goal of th...

In the aftermath of Arab spring, throughout Israel there were massive protest, indeed, on a per capital basis, the “cottage cheese” revolt, or J14 (June 14), can be seen as part of the Global cycle of protest. According to Schechter (2012) three phases of the Israeli J14 can be identified: 1) The public phase, 2, Immediate Post – tent city phase, a...

How do we understand the world wide spread of social movement of our age, from various fundamentalisms to the progressive thrusts of Arab Spring to Occupy. How have such movements fared? We will argue that the roots of these movement can be found in the consequences of neo liberalism that has not only fostered greater inequality and hardship for mo...

n the editors’ introduction they noted how the various mobilizations starting in 2011 raised important questions for social movement scholars. The various articles in this issue have explored the emergence, dynamics, and significance of the social mobilizations, contestations, and confrontations that started with the Arab Spring mobilizations and c...

We have recently seen the proliferation of a variety of progressive, democratic social movements across the globe. In the wake of various contradictions and implosions of capitalism, from the meltdown of the US banks to the euro crisis, vast numbers of people have challenged neoliberal globalization. In this article the authors offer a theoretical...

The present monograph issue focuses on the 2011–2012 global wave of protests that began in Tunisia in 2011. This introductory article notes that two streams of mobilization can be distinguished in terms of the specific grievances they express, and the socioeconomic and political contexts in which they have emerged. The article argues, however, that...

Machsomwatch (checkpoint watch) is an Israeli women protest and human rights movement aimed at monitoring military checkpoints in the West Bank. On a daily basis, in shifts, women volunteers observe the operation of the checkpoints and report their experiences to the public in Israel and worldwide (see www.machsomwatch.org). This paper examines the...

Throughout the world we have seen proliferations of progressive, democratic social movements in which vast numbers of people have challenged neo liberal globalization and the legitimacy of its elites whose self interested policies have ill served the majorities. From the Zapatistas to the Global justice movements, and more recently Arab Spring, Isr...

This chapter aims at presenting a general picture of the emotions of protest, which can also capture the “feel” of the field and uncover the fluidity and complexity of these dynamics. Using data collected through participant observations at the vigils of Women in Black (WIB) in Israel, interviews, documents, and WIB website, the chapter presents ma...

This is a review article of Jo Reger, Daniel J. Myers, Rachel Einwohner, (eds.)( 2008). Identity work in Social Movements. Social Movements, pritest and Contention Series, Vol. 30. University of Minnesota Pressץ

The central claim of the present study is that under conditions of persistent ethnic inequality accompanied by widespread acculturation, ethnic convergence processes may proceed in various directions among different subsections of the same group. Expectations based on three theoretical approaches that assume different directions of ethnic convergen...

The central claim of the present study is that under conditions of persistent ethnic inequality accompanied by widespread acculturation, ethnic convergence processes may proceed in various directions among different subsections of the same group. Expectations based on three theoretical approaches that assume different directions of ethnic convergen...

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Musical culture is both shaped by and a potential shaper of forces in society. Two contrasting forces influence the ethnic scene in Israel: integrative processes of acculturation among Oriental Jews on the one hand and attempts to preserve ethnic frames of reference on the other. An analytical framework delineating three basic forms of musical tast...