“Reflection does not withdraw from the world toward the unity of consciousness as the world’s basis; it steps back to watch the forms of transcendence fly up like sparks from a fire; it slackens the intentional threads which attach us to the world and thus brings them to our notice; it alone is consciousness of the world because it reveals that world as strange and paradoxical.” (Merleau-Ponty, 1962 p. xiii)
Carol A. Kidron
Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor), Anthropology Department, University of Haifa
Carol A. Kidron is Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Haifa, Israel. Kidron has undertaken comparative ethnographic work with Holocaust descendants in Israel and children of Cambodian genocide survivors in Cambodia and Canada. Her interests include personal and collective Holocaust and Genocide commemoration. Kidron has also examined the localization of Euro-Western discourses on memorialization, justice and reconciliation, victimhood, and trauma in Cambodia while exploring sites of friction in the contact zones of local-global encounters.
Contact Info
Anthropology Department, University of Haifa, Mount Carmel, Haifa, Israel 31905
Email: ckidron@soc.haifa.ac.il