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Dr. E. (Erella) Grassiani

Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences
Programme group: Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas
Visiting address
  • Nieuwe Achtergracht 166
  • Room number: B5.00
Postal address
  • Postbus 15509
    1001 NA Amsterdam
Contact details
  • Themes of interest and specialization

    Military, Violence, Security issues, Peace and Conflict, Israel/Palestine

    Military checkpoint in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.
  • Profile

    I'm an anthropologist working on issues of militarization and security in Israel/Palestine. In the last decades I have done extensive research on Israeli soldiers and on the global Israeli security industry. I'm furthermore interested in security activities by civilian organizations. 

    I'm co-director of the Programme Group Moving Matters: People, Goods, Power and Ideas in the departement of Anthropology. 

    I also teach courses on academic writing and the anthropology of violence. Furthermore I supervise MA students on a variety of subjects. 

    Councilwork: Since 2016 I'm part of the Works council of the FMG and since September 2019 i'm also part of the COR (Central Works' Council) where I'm serving as vice-chair. 

    Editorial work:  I'm the Editor-in-Chief of Conflict and Society, published by Berghahn and I'm member of the editorial team of Etnofoor. 

     

     

  • Publications

    2022

    2021

    • Grassiani, E., & Gazit, N. (2021). לגיטימציה נזילה לאלימות צבאית: דינמיקות של הפעלת כוח ואלימות בכיבוש צבאי מתמשך. In Y. Levy, & O. Ben Yishai (Eds.), חמושים בלגיטימציה Pardes Publisher.

    2020

    • Diphoorn, T., & Grassiani, E. (2020). ‘Why Do We Need Your Research?’: The Ethics of Studying Security and the Dilemmas of the Anthropologist-Expert. Journal of Extreme Anthropology, 4(1), 116-134. https://doi.org/10.5617/jea.7605 [details]
    • Grassiani, E. (2020). Critical engagement when studying those you oppose. In M. de Goede, E. Bosma, & P. Pallister-Wilkins (Eds.), Secrecy and Methods in Security Research: A Guide to Qualitative Fieldwork (pp. 248-260). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429398186-24 [details]

    2019

    2018

    2017

    • Grassiani, E. (2017). Commercialised occupation skills: Israeli security experience as an international brand. In M. Leese, & S. Wittendorp (Eds.), Security/Mobility: Politics of Movement (pp. 57-73). Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. [details]
    • Grassiani, E., & Diphoorn, T. (2017). Introduction: Ethnographies of Private Security. Conflict and Society, 3, 1-7. https://doi.org/10.3167/arcs.2017.030101 [details]
    • Grassiani, E., & Diphoorn, T. G. (Eds.) (2017). Private Security. Conflict and Society, 3(1), 1-72.
    • Schut, T., & Grassiani, E. (2017). Introduction: Freedom. Etnofoor, 29(1), 7-10. https://www.jstor.org/stable/44318091 [details]

    2016

    2015

    2014

    • Bal, E., Grassiani, E., & Kirk, K. (2014). Neoliberal individualism in Dutch universities: teaching and learning anthropology in an insecure environment. Learning and Teaching, 7(3), 46-72. https://doi.org/10.3167/latiss.2014.070303 [details]
    • Grassiani, E., & Swinkels, M. (2014). Introduction: Engaging with borders. Etnofoor, 26(1), 7-12. [details]
    • Grassiani, E., & Verweij, D. (2014). The Disciplinary Gaze of the Camera's Eye: Soldiers' Conscience and Moral Responsibility. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies, 15(3), 5-22. [details]
    • Salverda, T., & Grassiani, E. (2014). Introduction: Anxiety at the Top. Comparative Sociology, 13(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1163/15691330-12341291 [details]

    2013

    • Grassiani, E. (2013). Soldiering under occupation: processes of numbing among Israeli soldiers in the Al-Aqsa Intifada. New York: Berghahn Books. [details]

    2012

    • Grassiani, E. (2012). Militarizing the Enemy's Home, Israel/Palestine: a Photo Essay. Critical Planning, 19(Summer 2012), 105-112. [details]

    2011

    • Grassiani, E. (2011). When Soldiers Explain: Discursive Strategies used by Israeli Conscripts. In M. Six-Hohenbalken, & N. Weiss (Eds.), Anthropological Perspectives on Expressions of Violence Ashgate.

    2009

    • Grassiani, E. (2009). The Phenomenon of Breaking the Silence in Israel: 'Witnessing" as Consciousness Raising Strategy of Israeli Ex-combatants. In T. A. van Baarda, & D. E. M. Verweij (Eds.), The Moral Dimension of Asymmetrical Warfare: Counter-Terrorism, Democratic Values and Military Ethics (pp. 247-259). Martinus Nijhoff. https://doi.org/10.1163/ej.9789004171299.i-532.97

    2021

    2019

    • Grassiani, E., & Diphoorn, T. (2019). Introducing Security Blurs. In T. Diphoorn, & E. Grassiani (Eds.), Security Blurs: The Politics of Plural Security Provision (pp. 1-15). (Routledge Studies in Anthropology; Vol. 51). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781351127387-1 [details]

    2015

    • Grassiani, E. (Guest ed.), & Diphoorn, T. (Guest ed.) (2015). Security. Etnofoor, 27(2). [details]

    2014

    • Grassiani, E. (Guest ed.), & Swinkels, M. (Guest ed.) (2014). Borders. Etnofoor, 26(1). [details]
    • Salverda, T. S., & Grassiani, E. (Eds.) (2014). Comparative Sociology (vol. 13). Comparative Sociology, 13.

    2016

    • Grassiani, E. (2016). Designing for Legacy: an anthropological perspective. In M. Shoshan (Ed.), BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions: The Dutch contribution to the 15th edition of the Venice Architecture Biennale (pp. 44). Rotterdam: Het Nieuwe Instituut. [details]

    2017

    • Grassiani, E. (2017). De 'zwarte kant'. In M. Geels, & T. van Opijnen (Eds.), Nederland in ideeen: Waar verzet jij je tegen? (pp. 151-152). Maven Publishing.

    2016

    • Grassiani, E. (2016). De Israelische veiligheidsindustrie en de bezetting: Nieuwe antiterreur-technologieen verkopen goed op de buitenlandse markt. De Brug, 103.

    2015

    • Grassiani, E. (2015). Vriendschap in tijden van actie: de lente aan de UvA. In M. T. Geels and van Opijnen (Ed.), Nederland in Ideeen 2016: Dit is het Mooiste Ooit Amsterdam: Maven Publishing.

    2014

    • Grassiani, E. (2014). Soldiering under Occupation: Spaces of Morality. Dialogue - Politics Society, 7, 63-64.
    • Grassiani, E., & Jaffe, R. K. (2014). De Staat Voorbij: Privatisering en Globalisering van Beveiliging. #kijkSW, 8, 14-15.
    • Jaffe, R., & Grassiani, E. (2014). Securing the city: challenges to human rights. In T. van Lindert, & D. Lettinga (Eds.), The future of human rights in an urban world: exploring opportunities, threats and chalenges (pp. 51-56). (Changing perspectives on human rights). Amsterdam: Amnesty International Netherlands. [details]

    Membership

    • Grassiani, E. (2016). International Sociological Association, International Sociological Association, RC 01.
    • Grassiani, E. (2015). member AAA, American Anthropological Association.
    • Grassiani, E. (2008). European Association of Social Anthropologists.

    Media appearance

    Journal editor

    • Grassiani, E. (editor) (2014). Etnofoor (Journal).
    • Grassiani, E. (editor in chief) (2014-2020). Conflict and Society (Journal).

    Talk / presentation

    • Grassiani, E. (speaker) (15-2-2020). Security Research from the Shadows, Shadow Munich Security Conference, Munchen.
    • Grassiani, E. (speaker) (23-5-2018). Exporting Paranoia: Israeli Security inEurope, Spy School, Aalst.

    Others

    • Grassiani, E. (organiser), Dayan, H. (organiser), Roei, N. (organiser) & Stein, R. (organiser) (11-11-2019). Perpetrator workshop, amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (participant) (3-10-2019). ILLICITIES Workshop, Amsterdam (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (participant) (4-3-2019). Combat Proven Politics, London (participating in a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (organiser) (28-8-2017 - 30-8-2017). PACSA bi annual conference: The Making of Peace, Conflict and Security: Dynamics of Inclusion and Exclusion, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (organiser) (2016). Securitizing Worlds, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (organiser) (2-9-2015 - 5-9-2015). Im/mobilities as products and generators of conflict, Frankfurt (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (organiser), Diphoorn, T. G. (organiser) & Jaffe, R. K. (organiser) (19-1-2015 - 20-1-2015). Security at Large, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (organiser) (2015). with gate48, Amsterdam. Jerusalem a city disunited (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Grassiani, E. (organiser) (10-9-2014 - 12-9-2014). Security on the Move, Amsterdam (organising a conference, workshop, ...).
    • Moerman, G. (organiser), Broer, C. (organiser), Veenis, M. (organiser) & Grassiani, E. (organiser) (27-8-2014 - 29-8-2014). #Ethnography: Trends, Traverses and Traditions (organising a conference, workshop, ...).

    2019

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