Michal Givoni is a senior lecturer at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. Since February 2025 she is a Humboldt fellow at the CRC Affective Societies at the Freie Universität, Berlin. Her first book, The Care of the Witness: A Contemporary History of Testimony in Crises, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2016. Her second book, Future Past: A Theoretical Guide for Living the Impasse was published in Hebrew in 2023. Givoni is also the co-editor of The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Zone Books, 2009).

The current research project focuses on post-apocalyptic feelings. My aim is to look at affective strategies for dealing with impending endings in both ecological and more conventionally political settings, and examine what can be gained by further developing the post-apocalyptic outlook as a political genre.

Books

Michal Givoni, 2023. Future Past: A Theoretical Guide for Living the Impasse, Pardes, 218 pp. (In Hebrew).

Michal Givoni, 2016. The Care of the Witness: A Contemporary History of Testimonyin Crises, Cambridge University Press, 256 pp.

Edited volumes

Adi Ophir, Michal Givoni and Sari Hanafi (eds.), 2009. The Power of Inclusive Exclusion: Anatomy of Israeli Rule in the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Zone Books.

Articles

Michal Givoni, 2021. “Hope on the Move: Israeli Humanitarians Between Resilience and Utopianism,” History and Anthropology: DOI: 10.1080/02757206.2021.1954633

Michal Givoni, 2020. “The Nakba in a Livestream: Empathic Encounters and the Solidarity of Shared Precariousness,” International Political Sociology 14(4): 399-417.

Michal Givoni, 2018. “Indifference and Repetition: Occupation Testimonies and Left-Wing Despair,” Cultural Studies 33(4): 595-631.

Michal Givoni, 2017. “Dividing Crowds: In Search of a Worldly Ethics for Cosmopolitan Publics,” Constellations 25(4): 515-528.

Michal Givoni, 2016. “Between Micro Mappers and Missing Maps: Digital Humanitarianism and the Politics of Material Participation in Disaster Response,” Environment and Planning D: Society & Space 34(6): 1025-1043.

Michal Givoni, 2016. “Reluctant Cosmopolitanism: Perceptions Management and the Performance of Humanitarian Principles,” Humanity 7(2): 255-272.

Michal Givoni, 2015. “Holocaust Memories and Cosmopolitan Practices: Humanitarian Witnessing between Emergencies and the Catastrophe,” in Haim Hazan and Amos Goldberg (eds.), The Globalization of Holocaust Memory, Berghahn Books: 121-145.

Michal Givoni, 2014. “The Ethics of Witnessing and the Politics of the Governed,” Theory, Culture & Society 31(1): 123-142.

Michal Givoni, 2011. “Beyond the Humanitarian/Political Divide: Witnessing and the Making of Humanitarian Ethics,” Journal of Human Rights 10(1): 55-75.

Michal Givoni, 2011. “Humanitarian Governance and Ethical Cultivation: Médecins sans Frontières and the Advent of the Expert-Witness,” Millennium 40(1): 43-63.

Michal Givoni, 2010. “Witnessing /Testimony,” Mafte'akh, A Lexical Journal ofPolitical Thought 2, 147-169.