{"id":713,"date":"2026-10-01T02:49:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:49:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/?post_type=profile&#038;p=713"},"modified":"2026-10-01T02:49:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T06:49:30","slug":"merav-shohet","status":"publish","type":"profile","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/profile\/merav-shohet\/","title":{"rendered":"Merav Shohet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Dr. Merav Shohet is a cultural anthropologist whose specializations in psychological, medical, and linguistic anthropology lead to ethnographic research on affect, morality, and health. In Vietnam, North America, and, most recently, Israel\/Palestine, her studies of care and gendered subjectivities illuminate how communicative practices\u2013and the socio-historical and political-economic transformations of which they are a part\u2013mediate individuals\u2019 experiences of moral personhood and lived possibilities in contexts of care-giving, suffering and recovery.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Extending her interests in narrative, ethics, and inequalities, Dr. Shohet has recently been working on care, aging, and the end of life in changing kibbutz communities, including under war conditions, and on the pandemic\u2019s harmful, syndemic effects on racialized end-stage kidney disease patients in Greater Boston, where she documented chronic terminal patients\u2019 struggles to flourish. In future, she also hopes to return to her earlier eating disorders research, to investigate lifespan illness and recovery processes, and how discourses of food, economic development, and cross-cultural psychiatry insidiously figure in marginalized people\u2019s lives.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15206,"template":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/713"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/profile"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15206"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/713\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":715,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/profile\/713\/revisions\/715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/jewishleft\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}