Bibliographic record
Abstract
Rarely one encounters a comprehensive, nuanced, insightful, and realistic exposition on Israeli society packaged in such a slim book.Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture is such a research and book.The work is extraordinary, imaginative, and creative; it is a fruitful presentation of the anthropological imagination's tremendous abilities to see a social world encapsulated in a drop of "fieldwork."Indeed, this is a tour de force of the unique abilities reserved to anthropology's insight production.The research aims at analyzing the bureaucratic procedures by which single parent families, usually headed by the mothers, are treated in Israel.The empirical research and observations were done in 2003 during a short period of a cease-fire (Hudna) between Israel and Hamas.The research is focused on Mizrahi single mothers who marched to Jerusalem and camped on a hill (Wohl Rose Park) facing several government ministries' offices.Hence, Mizrahi single mothers constitute the empirical center, the research focus, and the human drama.The march on Jerusalem raised much interest and media coverage; however, and despite the media noise, the march and the encampment in Jerusalem utterly failed.Single Mizrahi mothers failed to achieve any significant changes in their social standing or in the welfare policies enacted toward them.Like most Mizrahi social protest movements so far, the single mothers' march in Jerusalem was of no avail.The research focuses on Vicky Knafo, an Israeli Mizrahi woman, and on Smadar Lavie, an Israeli welfare mom who is also a PhD, Berkeley trained ethnographer who wrote the book.Generalizing the "Vicky Knafo march," its personal as well as political circumstances enabled Lavie in producing a plethora of sharp concepts and penetrating insights.She minted the bureaucratic torture concept; she coined Knafonomics, Knafoland, as well as produced a genuine and enlightening
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.005 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.004 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.002 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.334 | 0.315 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; the direct Gemma label and the distilled Codex classifier agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".