Dr Omri Grinberg

Profile

I’m a socio-cultural and political-legal anthropologist with background in Visual Studies and Literature, and an interest in sociolinguistics. My research focuses on definitions and modes of representation of violence in bureaucratic and legal interactions between human rights NGOs and state extensions, as part of a political cultural theatre that includes everyday life, media, and art. I apply inter-disciplinary tools to trace and analyze adaptations of testimony and struggles over archival issues in Israel/Palestine, specifically examining the ethical impetus and technical-practical wrangling that typify the backstage of such processes. In 2019 I completed a PhD in Anthropology and Jewish Studies from the University of Toronto, and since then I’ve had several postdoctoral fellowships. Regarding Childhood Studies, I’ve done research and published several papers about a specific phenomenon of Palestinian child labor in Israel/Palestine, its representations by Israelis and discourses about it.

Research

Publications

• Grinberg, Omri. “Testimony as Event: Israeli NGOs, Palestinian Witnesses, and the Bureaucratic Logic of Human Rights.” Cambridge Journal of Anthropology 39.1 (2021): 93-110. 
• Grinberg, Omri. "Facsimileing the State: The Bureaucracy of Document Transmission in Israeli Human Rights NGOs." Anthropologica, vol. 60 no. 1, 2018, p. 259-273. Project MUSE.
• Akesson, Bree, and Omri Grinberg. “A Present Absence: Representations of Palestinian Children in the Home.” In Sociological Studies of Children and Youth, vol. 27, Bringing Children Back into the Family: Relationality, Connectedness and Home. Bingley, UK: Emerald Group Publishing (2020): 163-179 (Chapter 10).
• Grinberg, Omri. “Israeli Narratives of the Palestinian ‘Children of the Junction.’” In Children and Borders, edited by Spyros Spyrou and Miranda Christou. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan (2014): 149–163. 

Expertise