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Cet article est une approche ethnographique du sentiment d'appartenance à Israël de migrants russophones, confrontés aux exigences de l'administration nationale. Il examine l'adoption par l'État juif d'une classification religieuse, dont il montre la signification et les conséquences sur la vie quotidienne et l'identité des migrants. En déroulant le récit ethnographique, l'auteure met en évidence la discordance entre la citoyenneté et la nationalité en Israël, mais aussi les contradictions entre les conceptions soviétique et israélienne de la judéité, tout en examinant le rôle de la religion dans l'acculturation des migrants russophones.

The article analyzes the public shaming campaigns that followed celebrity emigration from Russia at the beginning of the war against Ukraine. It shows that celebrity emigration represented a challenge to the construction of a nation morally and emotionally united around the war. The special status of celebrities in modern society as figures that provide the public with a focus of common identification and attention makes celebrity emigration during the war particularly challenging both for the state authorities and for the public. Through systematic analysis of commentary on social media, the article reveals the communicative process of public shaming of these public figures, which works through acts of revelation of their moral failure and othering, including by highlighting their ethnic and class differences. By expressing moral outrage, individual commenters on social media are not only conducting symbolic destruction of these celebrities' moral character and social status, but also reconstituting the moral meaning of emigration as an act of betrayal of the Motherland. Using the affordances of social media, ordinary people not only express their outrage but also formulate how they see the proper moral commitments and appropriate feelings of patriotic citizens in wartime. Their moral rhetoric and affective expressions are anchored in the well-established Soviet tradition of public shaming and denunciation. They are also framed by the contemporary context of emotional and confrontational social media campaigns.

This article spotlights the emotional aspect of the commercialization of university studies. Whereas the literature on current challenges of higher education highlights the students' customer role, we reveal how neoliberal studenthood combines a consumerist worldview with the discourse of emotional experience. The narratives of Israeli students in the present article show consumerist–emotional therapeutic duality in the ways they make sense of their encounter with the university. Students evaluate how their professors meet their emotional, therapeutic, and consumer needs and perceive the knowledge they acquire as providing them with both pragmatic skills and emotional experience. We argue that this duality is significant to the emerging culture of 'academic capitalism' and show how the commercialized feelings and pragmatics of self-development operate as a manifestation of 'emotional capitalism'.

In this article we present a close reading of the discursive media transformation generated by "Fashion Verdict"—a makeover reality show broadcast on Russian TV. Our analysis reveals that the adopted genre of therapeutic culture constitutes a new mode of talk about personal experience in the post-Soviet media, a mode based on pop-psychological assumptions and linked to the discursive practice of psychotherapy. However, we show that in post-Soviet popular culture the global therapeutic talking culture encounters powerful cultural counterparts. Apart from psychotherapy, the TV courtroom transformation works by shifting three other discursive frames of articulation of individual and personal life: communist Comrades' Court, soviet Kitchen Talk, and glamorous Fashion Show. Combining an anthropological approach with conversational and frame analysis, we decipher how the familiar discursive forms of talking about personal life domesticate the therapeutic discourse in the Russian communicative culture: they pave the way for its acceptance and concomitantly contest and possibly undermine the ideas that the therapeutic culture brings in.

Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der (professionellen) Lebensgeschichte einer russischen Journalistin, die als Immigrantin in Israel eingereist ist, d.h. in eine für sie neue berufliche und kulturelle Umgebung, und die sich bemüht, diese neue Umgebung für ihre Leser/innen, andere Immigrant/innen, zu decodieren und zu interpretieren.Im Rahmen einer ethnografischen Narrationsanalyse versuchten wir, den Charakter und die Bedeutung der Doppelhelix einer Immigrant/innenbiografie im Zusammenspiel aus privaten und beruflichen Erfahrungen zu rekonstruieren. Deutlich wurden im Verlauf der Analyse zahlreiche Verknüpfungen zwischen dem Erwerb neuen beruflichen Wissens und der Sozialisation in eine(r) neue(n) Kultur und Gesellschaft; zwischen der journalistischen Kommentierung dieser Erfahrung und den Deutungen aus der eigenen Immigrationsperspektive; zwischen professioneller Positionierung gegenüber einer lokalen journalistischen Gemeinschaft einerseits und Immigrant/innengemeinschaften andererseits; zwischen der Herausbildung ihrer eigenen persönlichen und professionellen Perspektive und den kollektiven politischen und kulturellen Attitüden ihrer Leser/innenschaft. Der Beitrag trägt zugleich zum Verständnis von qualitativen Migrationsstudien bei, indem er eine mehrebenige Analyse von Migrationsnarrativen vorschlägt und exemplarisch vollzieht.

This research explores the professional and life experiences of a Russian-speaking immigrant journalist who relocates herself in Israel, within the new professional and cultural environment. She engages intensively in decoding and interpreting her new society for the immigrant readers. We conducted an ethnographic narrative analysis to examine the nature and significance of the "double helix" of an immigrant-professional narrative, constructed by the interplay of life and work experiences. This prism of analysis reveals the intersection between acquiring new professional knowledge and learning a new culture; between journalistic commentary and immigrant interpretation; between professional positioning vis-à-vis the local journalistic community and the immigrant counterparts; and between shaping the journalist's personal views and the collective political, civil, and cultural attitudes of her immigrant audience. The article contributes to the methodologies of qualitative study of migration by suggesting a multi-level interpretation of a migration narrative.URN: http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs1201155 ; Dieser Beitrag befasst sich mit der (professionellen) Lebensgeschichte einer russischen Journalistin, die als Immigrantin in Israel eingereist ist, d.h. in eine für sie neue berufliche und kulturelle Umgebung, und die sich bemüht, diese neue Umgebung für ihre Leser/innen, andere Immigrant/innen, zu decodieren und zu interpretieren.Im Rahmen einer ethnografischen Narrationsanalyse versuchten wir, den Charakter und die Bedeutung der Doppelhelix einer Immigrant/innenbiografie im Zusammenspiel aus privaten und beruflichen Erfahrungen zu rekonstruieren. Deutlich wurden im Verlauf der Analyse zahlreiche Verknüpfungen zwischen dem Erwerb neuen beruflichen Wissens und der Sozialisation in eine(r) neue(n) Kultur und Gesellschaft; zwischen der journalistischen Kommentierung dieser Erfahrung und den Deutungen aus der eigenen Immigrationsperspektive; zwischen professioneller Positionierung gegenüber einer lokalen ...

In this study, we reflexively focus our gaze on the global shift toward the emotionalisation of academic culture, taking the perspective of a university institution and its staff. We argue that emotional consumerism is fundamental to the current condition of academic teaching; it is embedded in its institutional agenda and shapes faculty's subjective experiences. Our ethnographic analysis reveals also that understanding emotional academic capitalism requires a cross-cultural lens. Thus, we probe the meanings of teaching in three academic contexts – Russia, Israel and the US – tracing how local neoliberalism, cultural emotional communicative scripts and educational traditions, as well as political cultures, shape the emotionalisation of university teaching differently. Academic teaching in the US appears as care combined with fear; teaching in Israel is articulated as a therapeutic power struggle; while in Russia, teaching is interpreted as a peculiar combination of authoritative impersonalised services. This juxtaposition exposes different local manifestations of neoliberal emotional university discourse that merges therapeutic logic and its emotional language, reconfigures hierarchical relations, and integrates national political ethos into the act of teaching.