Clashing identities in the military bereavement of a minority group: The case of Bedouin IDF widows in Israel

  • Smadar Ben-Asher Kaye Academic College, Israel, Mandel Leadership Institute in the Negev, Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Education, Israel
  • Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen Achva Academic College, Israel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

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Author Biographies

Smadar Ben-Asher, Kaye Academic College, Israel, Mandel Leadership Institute in the Negev, Israel, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Department of Education, Israel

DR. SMADAR BEN-ASHER is an educational psychologist. She is a senior lecturer in the Kaye Academic College of Education educational counselors program, a faculty member of the Mandel Leadership Institute in the Negev, and an adjunct lecturer in the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev training programs for psychologists and counselors. She also teaches a variety of courses on therapy interview skills, stress situations, and various subjects in the sphere of educational psychology intervention. Her academic specialization is research on the social representations discourse of groups in Israeli society.

Ya'arit Bokek-Cohen, Achva Academic College, Israel, Bar-Ilan University, Israel

DR. YA’ARIT BOKEK-COHEN received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Tel Aviv University (2002). She combines quantitative and qualitative methodologies and specializes in the sociology of the family. She studies family dynamics, families created with the aid of fertility technologies, and remarriage of widows. Dr. Bokek-Cohen is a senior lecturer and head of the unit of Human Resource Studies at Achva Academic College and a lecturer at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. She has recently published in the Journal of Family Studies, Journal of Gender Studies, Consumption, Markets & Culture, Health Sociology Review, New Genetics & Society, and Social Theory & Health.

Published
2017-06-30