Research Areas:

Emotions in IR; International Political Sociology (IPS); global migration and refugees; borders and space; climate mobilities; everyday geopolitics; ontological security; international development; sociological theory; international relations theory; classical and contemporary social thought; trauma and forced migration; sociology of Israeli society; visual IR.

Selected Publications:

Gazit, O. and Inman, S., 2024. “Conflict, Gender and Ontological Security-Seeking Between Eritrea and Tel-Aviv.” Conflict, Security & Development (forthcoming).

Gazit, O., 2021. “What it Means to (Mis)Trust: Forced Migration, Ontological (In)Security and the Unrecognized Political Psychology of the Israeli-Lebanese Conflict.” Political Psychology 42(3): 389-406.

Gazit, O., 2019. “Van Gennep meets Ontological (In)Security: A Processual Approach to Ontological Security in Migration.” International Studies Review 21(4): 572-597.

Gazit, O., 2018. “A Simmelian Approach to Space in World Politics.” International Theory 10(2): 219-252.

Gazit, O., 2018. “The Sociology of the Limit: Reformulating the Question of Migration through Van Gennep.” Journal of Classical Sociology 18(4): 266-282.

Yair, G. and Gazit, O. (eds.) 2010. Collective Identities, States and Globalization: A Tribute to SN Eisenstadt. Jerusalem: Magnes Press.

Löwenheim, O. and Gazit, O., 2009. “Power and Examination: A Critique of Citizenship Tests.” Security Dialogue 40(2): 145–167.

Yair, G. and Gazit, O., 2006. “Learning in Chaos: The Battle over Children’s Engagement with Learning in High Poverty Immigrant Families.” Research in Sociology of Education 15: 239–264.

Courses:

International Political Sociology

Emotions in International Politics

Global Migrations (Migration & Development Track, Glocal)

Refugees & Development (Migration & Development Track, Glocal)

Thesis Writing (Research Track, Glocal)

The Glocal Program Seminar