School of Social and Political Science

Dr Livnat Konopny Decleve

British Academy International Fellow

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livnat.decleve@ed.ac.uk
5.14
Chrystal Macmillan Building
Edinburgh, Scotland
UK
EH8 9LD

Research interests

Sovereignty; Political action; Dissent; Citizenship; Identity; Political emotions; Political imagination; Feminist Theory 

My current research delves into the work of feminist left-wing Jewish activists in imagining solutions for the ongoing violence in Israel/Palestine.

My PhD research focused on perceptions of political action and sovereignty among Israeli Jews who, following their dissent concerning Israeli control over Palestine, have exiled themselves from Israel and have either moved abroad or moved to Palestinian localities in the West Bank. One of the dissertation findings was that dissidents located sovereignty in their own bodies, soul, and emotions, pointing to the blurring of the body-mind and private-public boundaries and the collapse of the distinction between the sovereign state and the international arena.

Background

Livnat Konopny-Decleve is a British Academy International Fellow at The School of Social and Political Science at The University of Edinburgh. She is a political anthropologist working on the Jewish radical left, and on alternative political imagination in Israel/Palestine and abroad. Livnat received her PhD from the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Tel Aviv University (2022), and was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2023). She is a co-convenor of APeCS – Anthropology of Peace, Conflict, and Security network at EASA.

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