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Antisemitisms in the 21st Century - AS21

Reference of the Group:

GIUV2026-013

 
Description of research activity:

Antisemitisms in the twenty-first century are a set of long-term discourses, practices and representations which, across diverse social, political and media contexts, construct - the Jewish - as an abstract, collective and decontextualised form of alterity, to which a disproportionate responsibility (moral, political, economic or symbolic) is attributed in conflicts, crises or social disruptions, regardless of the actual presence, agency or participation of Jewish individuals.

 
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Scientific-technical goals:
  • Analizar los antisemitismos del siglo XXI como fenómenos sociales, culturales y políticos, atendiendo a sus genealogías, transformaciones y persistencias en contextos contemporáneos.
  • Examinar los procesos de construcción, resignificación y circulación del antisemitismo y de "lo judío" en discursos sociales, mediáticos y digitales.
  • Contribuir a la producción y transferencia de conocimiento crítico sobre antisemitismos contemporáneos desde una perspectiva comparada en el ámbito de las ciencias sociales.
 
Research lines:
  • Antisemitisms in the Twenty-First Century: Genealogies, Transformations and Continuities.Analysis of antisemitisms in the twenty-first century from a historical and genealogical perspective, addressing continuities and discontinuities with premodern and modern forms of anti-Judaism and antisemitism, as well as their processes of rearticulation in contemporary social, political and cultural contexts.
  • Antisemitisms in digital and media environments.Analysis of the specific forms taken by antisemitisms in contemporary digital and media environments, such as social networks, digital platforms, media outlets and hybrid online¿offline spaces, with particular attention to the circulation of conspiratorial discourses, simplifying narratives, processes of banalisation and new modalities of normalisation of hatred.
 
Group members:
Name Nature of participation Entity Description
MARIA TERESA OJEDA MATADirectorUniversitat de València
Research team
MIQUEL ANGEL RUIZ TORRESCollaboratorUniversitat de València
BENNO HERZOG CollaboratorUniversitat de València
JUAN SALVADOR TORRES PALOMARESCollaboratorUniversitat de València
JONATHAN JACOBO BAR SHUALICollaboratorUniversidad Complutense de MadridPhD student from other entities
 
CNAE:
  • Research and experimental development in the social sciencies and humanities
 
Associated structure:
  • Sociology and Social Anthropology