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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Hadas Weiss

Citation names

  • Weiss, Hadas

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
7E12-9939-1CE4
ORCID iD
0000-0003-1969-4236
Google Scholar ID
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=TylwawYAAAAJ&hl=en

Knowledge fields

  • Social Sciences - Sociology - Anthropology

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Hebrew (Mother tongue)
English Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2) Proficiency (C2)
German Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Spanish; Castilian Proficiency (C2) Advanced (C1) Upper intermediate (B2) Proficiency (C2) Upper intermediate (B2)
Portuguese Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1) Intermediate (B1)
Education
Degree Classification
2009/06/15
Concluded
 Anthropology (Doctor of Philosophy)
University of Chicago Department of Anthropology, United States
2002/07/31
Concluded
 Religious Studies (Master)
Tel Aviv University, Israel
1999/07/31
Concluded
 English Literature and General Studies in the Humanities (Bachelor)
Tel Aviv University, Israel
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2024/10/01 - Current Principal Investigator (Research) Centro em Rede de Investigação em Antropologia, Portugal
2020/10/01 - 2023/09/30 Researcher (Research) Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Germany
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany
2018/10/01 - 2020/09/30 Researcher (Research) Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2015/10/01 - 2018/09/30 Postdoc (Research) Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Germany
2014/09/01 - 2015/08/31 Researcher (Research) Central European University Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary
2012/09/01 - 2014/08/31 Postdoc (Research) Helsingin yliopisto tutkijakollegium, Finland
2010/09/01 - 2012/08/31 Postdoc (Research) Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2009/09/01 - 2010/08/31 Postdoc (Research) Lady Davis Fellowship Trust, Israel
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Weiss, Hadas. We Have Never Been Middle Class: How Social Mobility Misleads Us. Verso. 2019.
Book chapter
  1. Weiss, Hadas. "The Anthropological Study of Financialization". In The Routledge International Handbook of Financialization, 92-101. Routledge, 2020.
  2. Weiss, Hadas. "Capital’s Fidelity: Financialization in a Social Market Economy". In Financialization: Relational Approaches, 323-355. Berghahn, 2020.
  3. Weiss, Hadas. "Embedded Politics in a West Bank Settlement". In Normalizing Occupation: The Politics of Everyday Life in the West Bank Settlements, 75-91. Indiana University Press, 2017.
  4. Weiss, Hadas; Hans Peter Hahn. "Introduction: Biographies, Travels, and Itineraries of Things". In Mobility, Meaning and Transformation of Things, 1-14. Oxbow Books, 2013.
Edited book
  1. Weiss, Hadas; Hans Peter Hahn. Mobility, Meaning and Transformations of Things. Oxbow Books. 2013.
    10.2307/j.ctvh1dn08
Encyclopedia entry
  1. Hadas Weiss. "Social Reproduction". edited by Felix Stein; Joel Robbins; Rupert Stasch; Matei Candea; Andrew Sanchez; Sian Lazar; Hildegard Diemberger. Cambridge Encyclopedia of Anthropology, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.29164/21socialrepro.
    10.29164/21socialrepro
Journal article
  1. Weiss, Hadas. "Family ideology: uneasy entanglements of eldercare in Germany". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 30 3 (2024): 555-570. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.14092.
    10.1111/1467-9655.14092
  2. Hadas Weiss. "Social reproduction and the family: contradictions of childcare and eldercare in Germany". Dialectical Anthropology (2023): https://doi.org/10.1007/s10624-023-09701-z.
    10.1007/s10624-023-09701-z
  3. Hadas Weiss. "Afterword: The middle class and the capitalist state". Critique of Anthropology (2022): https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X221139161.
    10.1177/0308275X221139161
  4. Hadas Weiss. "Social reproduction as the reproduction of capitalism". Focaal 2022 93 (2022): 105-111. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2022.930108.
    10.3167/fcl.2022.930108
  5. Hadas Weiss. "A Family Matter: Responsibility and Selfishness in Spanish Households". Feminist Anthropology 3 1 (2022): 106-119. https://doi.org/10.1002/fea2.12078.
    10.1002/fea2.12078
  6. Hadas Weiss. "From Desire to Endurance: Hanging on in a Spanish Village". Cultural Anthropology 37 1 (2022): https://doi.org/10.14506/ca37.1.07.
    10.14506/ca37.1.07
  7. Hadas Weiss. "Elusive adulthood and surplus life-time in Spain". Critique of Anthropology (2021): https://doi.org/10.1177/0308275X211004717.
    10.1177/0308275X211004717
  8. Hadas Weiss. "The reproduction of capital through financial education". Economy and Society 49 2 (2020): 312-328. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03085147.2019.1690278.
    10.1080/03085147.2019.1690278
  9. Hadas Weiss. "Lifecycle Planning and Responsibility: Prospection and Retrospection in Germany". Ethnos 84 5 (2019): 789-805. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00141844.2018.1484505.
    10.1080/00141844.2018.1484505
  10. Hadas Weiss. "Reclaiming Meillassoux for the age of financialization". Focaal 2018 82 (2018): 109-117. http://dx.doi.org/10.3167/fcl.2018.820108.
    10.3167/fcl.2018.820108
  11. Hadas Weiss. "Popfinance: From the economic man to the Swabian housewife". HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory 8 3 (2018): 455-466. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/701114.
    10.1086/701114
  12. Hadas Weiss. "Longevity Risk: A Report on the Banality of Finance Capital". Critical Historical Studies 5 1 (2018): 103-118. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/697029.
    10.1086/697029
  13. Hadas Weiss. "Contesting the value of household property". Dialectical Anthropology (2016): http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10624-016-9428-3.
    10.1007/s10624-016-9428-3
  14. Hadas Weiss. "Financialization and Its Discontents: Israelis Negotiating Pensions". American Anthropologist 117 3 (2015): 506-518. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Faman.12283.
    10.1111/aman.12283
  15. Hadas Weiss. "Capitalist normativity: Value and values". Anthropological Theory 15 2 (2015): 239-253. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1463499614560353.
    10.1177/1463499614560353
  16. Hadas Weiss. "Homeownership in Israel: The Social Costs of Middle-Class Debt". Cultural Anthropology 29 1 (2014): 128-149. https://doi.org/10.14506%2Fca29.1.08.
    10.14506/ca29.1.08
  17. Hadas Weiss. "Israeli Ultra-Orthodoxy: Credit and Credibility". Social Analysis 58 2 (2014): 1-20. https://doi.org/10.3167%2Fsa.2014.580201.
    10.3167/sa.2014.580201
  18. Hadas Weiss. "Gift and Value in Jerusalem's Third Sector". American Anthropologist 113 4 (2011): 594-605. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1548-1433.2011.01372.x.
    10.1111/j.1548-1433.2011.01372.x
  19. Hadas Weiss. "Immigration and West Bank Settlement Normalization". PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review 34 1 (2011): 112-130. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1555-2934.2011.01142.x.
    10.1111/j.1555-2934.2011.01142.x
  20. HADAS WEISS. "On value and values in a West Bank settlement". American Ethnologist 38 1 (2011): 36-46. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1548-1425.2010.01290.x.
    10.1111/j.1548-1425.2010.01290.x
  21. Hadas Weiss. "Volatile investments and unruly youth in a West Bank settlement". Journal of Youth Studies 13 1 (2010): 17-33. https://doi.org/10.1080%2F13676260903083349.
    10.1080/13676260903083349
  22. HADAS WEISS. "Settling in the Hearts: Jewish Fundamentalism in the Occupied Territoriesby Michael Feige". Cultural Anthropology 24 4 (2009): 755-757. https://doi.org/10.1111%2Fj.1548-1360.2009.01046_4.x.
    10.1111/j.1548-1360.2009.01046_4.x
Magazine article
  1. Weiss, Hadas. "Against Human Capital", Public Books, 2019, https://www.publicbooks.org/against-human-capital/.
Online resource
  1. Weiss, Hadas. Why Social Mobility is a Lousy Idea. 2019. https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/why-social-mobility-lousy-idea/.
  2. Weiss, Hadas. Reflections on Moishe Postone’s Legacy for Anthropology. 2018. https://www.focaalblog.com/2018/04/11/hadas-weiss-reflections-on-moishe-postones-legacy-for-anthropology/.
  3. Weiss, Hadas. Virtue out of Necessity: An Exhibition on Saving in Germany. 2018. https://www.carmah.berlin/reflections/hadasweiss/.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. "Ideology and Practice in The West Bank Settlement Movement". PhD, The University of Chicago, 2009.
Working paper
  1. Weiss, Hadas. 2016. "Creditworthiness and the Consumer Perspective: on credit scoring in Israel". https://pure.mpg.de/rest/items/item_2350698/component/file_2350697/content.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2024/11/28 Workers to Capitalists Seminar of the research group Governance, Policies and Livelihoods
Centro em Rede de Investicação em Antropologia (Lisbon, Portugal)
2024/07/24 The Meaningfulness of Work EASA conference
European Association of Social Anthropologists (Barcelona, Spain)
2024/05/30 Workers to Capitalists Labored Changes Symposium
The Institute for Cultural Inquiry (Berlin, Germany)
2024/05/14 Workers to Capitalists. Anthropology Department Seminar
University of Berlin (Bern, Switzerland)
2023/07/26 Depopulation and Social Reproduction Biannual Congress
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Sozial- und Kulturanthropologie (Munich, Germany)
2022/08/28 Family and the Reproduction of Capitalism European Association of Social Anthropology biannual meeting
(Dublin, Ireland)
2022/01/05 The extended family and social reproduction Political Economy Workshop
Tel Aviv University (Tel Aviv, Israel)
2021/11/17 Intensive parenting in Germany American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Baltimore, United States)
2020/05/11 We have never been middle class Red May
(Seattle, United States)
2019/11/14 We have never been middle class Class Without Consciousness Conference
(Milan, Italy)
2019/06/21 Financialization in Germany International Conference of Europeanists
(Madrid, Spain)
2019/02/15 Human Capital and the Middle-Class Family The Legacy of Moishe Postone Conference
The University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2018/11/16 Financialized Infrastructure for Retirement Saving in Germany American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(San Jose, United States)
2018/08/15 What Finance Reveals About German Capitalism European Association of Social Anthropology biannual meeting
(Stockholm, Sweden)
2018/06/07 Provisioning for Old Age in Germany The Bare Necessities: Histories of Provisioning from WWII to the Present” workshop
The Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (Berlin, Germany)
2018/05/26 Financial Education in Germany: The Social Logic of Financial Agency Tallinn University Public Lecture Series
Tallinn University (Tallinn, Estonia)
2018/02/15 Finance and the Human Factor Contested Futures and Temporalities of Capitalism Workshop
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies (Warsaw, Poland)
2017/06/27 What Capitalism Means for Anthropology: Lessons from Germany Frontiers of Capitalism Conference
Bergen University (Bergen, Norway)
2017/06/19 Finance and the Human Factor Dept. of Ethnology Seminar Series
University of Leipzig (Leipzig, Germany)
2017/05/26 Financial Citizenship in Germany Sovereignty, Contestation and the Economy Conference
Utrecht University (Utrecht, Netherlands)
2016/11/03 Europe and the People Without Debt Intersections of Finance and Society Conference
University of London (London, United Kingdom)
2016/07/20 On Being Creditworthy: Introducing Credit Scoring into Israeli Households European Association of Social Anthropology biannual meeting
(Milan, Italy)
2016/05/22 Investment Critical Studies of Derivative Capitalism Seminar
New York University (New York, United States)
2016/05/06 Human Capital and the Middle-Class Family Cambridge Seminar
Cambridge University (Cambridge, United Kingdom)
2015/11/20 The Making of Financially Literate Households American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Denver, United States)
2014/12/03 Capitalized Property and its Discontents American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Washington, DC, United States)
2014/12/01 Contesting the Value of Household Property Sociology and Anthropology Department Seminar
Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
2014/11/11 Financialization: An Anthropological Perspective Political Economy Seminar
Central European University (Budapest, Hungary)
2014/05/26 An Ethnographic Study of Financialization The Finnish Anthropological Society Annual Meeting
(Helsinki, Finland)
2014/05/19 The Contribution of Marxian Value to the Study of Values On Values: Social Scientific and Philosophical Perspectives Workshop
Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies (Helsinki, Finland)
2014/05/16 Financialization and the Middle Class International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences Congress
(Tokyo, Japan)
2013/11/20 Confronting the Future through Privatized Pensions American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Chicago, United States)
2013/05/30 Security or Investment: Home Purchase in a Leveraged Real-Estate Market Israeli Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Jerusalem, Israel)
2013/05/11 Mortgage Debt and the Predicament of the Middle Class Society for Economic Anthropology Annual Meeting
(St. Louis, United States)
2013/03/13 Homeownership in Israel: Making Sense of Middle-Class Debt Anthropology Department Seminar
Helsinki University (Helsinki, Finland)
2011/12/29 Normalizing Ariel: The Promise and Limits of Social Significance Anthropology Forum
University of Haifa (Haifa, Israel)
2011/12/02 Contemporary Possibilities of Social Significance Critical Historical Studies Conference
University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2011/05/11 Credit and Surplus in an Anthropological Perspective International Political Economy Workshop
Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany)
2010/05/10 Value and Values in a West Bank Settlement Sociology and Anthropology Department Seminar
Ben Gurion University (Be'er Sheva, Israel)
2010 Value, Gift, and Third Sector Norms in Conflict Norms in Conflict Conference
Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany)
2009/12/07 Outline for a Theory of Value and Values Social Theory Workshop
University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2009/12/04 On Value and Values in a West Bank Settlement American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(Philadelphia, United States)
2009/05/09 Neoliberalism in the Middle East Middle East History and Theory Conference
University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2009/02/02 Value in the West Bank Social Theory Workshop
The University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2008/11/22 Moral Agency under Neoliberal Capitalism American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting
(San Francisco, United States)
2008/05/25 West Bank Settlers and Privatization Conditions of Settler Colonialism Symposium
University of Chicago (Chicago, United States)
2008/05/19 West Bank Settlers and Capitalist Ideology Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting
(New York, United States)
2008/05/09 The Production and Maintenance of Normalcy in a West Bank Settlement The Society for Cultural Anthropology Annual Meeting
(Long Beach, United States)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2021/11/18 - 2021/11/18 panel on "Social Reproduction: Theory and Practice" for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2021/11/17 - 2021/11/21)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2019/06/21 - 2019/06/21 Panel on "The Materiality of Sovereignty: Ethnographic Approaches" for the International Conference of Europeanists of the Council for European Studies (2019/06/20 - 2019/06/22)
Conference
2019/01/14 - 2019/01/14 Seminar on "Violence, Finance and Education: Ethnographic Perspectives" (2019/01/14 - 2019/01/14)
Seminar
 Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
2018/11/16 - 2018/11/16 Panel on "Navigating Financialized Infrastructure" for the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting (2018/11/14 - 2018/11/18)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 American Anthropological Association, United States
2018/08/16 - 2018/08/16 Panel on "Marx@200: Historical Materialism for Today’s World" for the bi-annual meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (2018/08/14 - 2018/08/17)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2015/07/21 - 2015/07/21 panel on "Everyday Finance" for the biannual meeting of the European Association of Social Anthropology (2015/07/20 - 2015/07/23)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2015/03/20 - 2015/03/20 International 1-day "Financialization Workshop" (2015/03/20 - 2015/03/20)
Workshop
 Central European University Institute for Advanced Study, Hungary
2014/05/16 - 2014/05/16 panel on "The Future of Class" for the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences congress (2014/05/15 - 2014/05/18)
Congress
2011/10/06 - 2011/10/08 International conference "Itineraries of the Material: Shifting Contexts of Value and Things in Time and Space" (2011/10/06 - 2011/10/06)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2010/11/11 - 2010/11/13 International Conference on "Theories of Value: Anthropological and Archeological Perspectives" (2010/11/11 - 2010/11/13)
Conference (Co-organisor)

Event participation

Activity description
Type of event 		Event name
Institution / Organization
2022/08/29 - 2022/08/29 Discussant for the panel "Timing Property: Speculation Amidst Scarcity in Property Accumulation and Investment"
Conference
 European Association of Social Anthropology biannual meeting
European Association of Social Anthropologists, United Kingdom
2018/02/22 - 2018/02/22 Discussant for a paper on "Sarajevans’ Consumption on Credit in a Financialised Household Economy"
Workshop
 Households and Peripheral Financialision in Europe Workshop
Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung, Germany
2014/06/29 - 2014/06/29 Discussant for the panel "Inside the Settlements"
Workshop
 The Settlements in the West Bank: New Perspectives, Research Workshop
Hebrew University of Jerusalem Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center, Israel
2012/11/16 - 2012/11/16 Discussant for a panel on "Debt: A Source of Interdisciplinary Innovation"
Conference
 Dictatorship of Failure Conference
Helsingin yliopisto tutkijakollegium, Finland
2010/05/29 - 2010/05/29 Discussant for a panel on "Place, Time, Struggle"
Conference
 The Israeli Anthropological Association Annual Meeting

Ad Hoc journal article review

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/09/01 - Current Social Inclusion
2024/05/01 - Current Dialectical Anthropology
2024/03/01 - Current Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology
2003/03/05 - 2023/03/30 Economic Anthropology
2023/02/02 - 2023/03/06 Cultural Anthropology
2022/12/09 - 2022/12/21 Antipode
2022/07/26 - 2022/08/06 Finance and Society
2022/04/14 - 2022/05/30 Social Anthropology
2021/09/01 - 2021/09/26 Economy and Society
2021/07/22 - 2021/08/09 Geopolitics
2021/06/20 - 2021/07/03 Journal of Cultural Economy
2020/10/13 - 2020/11/03 Current Anthropology
2020/09/24 - 2020/10/31 The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2019/08/20 - 2019/09/05 Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2019/06/06 - 2019/07/14 Social Forces
2018/11/16 - 2018/12/23 Socio-Economic Review
2017/08/05 - 2017/09/02 International Journal of Urban and Regional Research
2017/07/09 - 2017/08/16 Critique of Anthropology
2016/05/06 - 2016/06/12 The Sociological Review
2016/04/02 - 2016/04/30 Ethnos
2015/10/13 - 2015/11/24 The Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)
2015/03/01 - 2015/04/03 Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR)
2014/05/05 - 2014/06/19 Israel Studies Review
2014/01/03 - 2014/02/04 American Ethnologist

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2014/01/01 - 2014/07/31 Lecturer, in self-designed undergraduate course "The Anthropology of Capitalism" (Bachelor) Aalto-yliopisto, Finland
2009/03/30 - 2009/06/13 Teaching assistant for the course “The Development of Social and Cultural Theory” (Doctor of Philosophy) The University of Chicago, United States
2009/01/05 - 2009/03/21 Teaching Assistant for the course “Practices of Othering and the Logic of Human Rights Violations” (Bachelor) The University of Chicago, United States
2008/09/07 - 2008/11/22 Lecturer for self-designed course “Introduction to Cultural Anthropology” (Bachelor) DePaul University, United States
2007/01/03 - 2007/06/09 Lecturer “Self, Culture and Society” (Social Science Core) (Bachelor) The University of Chicago, United States
2004/09/27 - 2005/06/11 Teaching Intern for “Self, Culture and Society” (Social Science Core) (Bachelor) The University of Chicago, United States

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/12/01 - Current Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
2021/05/01 - Current Focaal – Journal of Global and Historical Anthropology (1558-5263) Berghahn

Other jury / evaluation

Activity description Institution / Organization
2020 - Current Evaluation of Applications for the FIAS (French Institutes for Advanced Studies) fellowship program
2020/05/01 - 2020/05/29 Evaluation of Application for the Israel Science Foundation research funding scheme
2018/11/06 - 2018/11/30 Evaluation of PhD dissertation proposal at the University of Haifa
2014 - 2017 Evaluation of Applications for the EURIAS fellowship program
2015/03/12 - 2015/04/27 Evaluation of book manuscript for the University of Chicago Press