Haim Hazan

Haim Hazan is a social anthropologist, professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University currently serving as a co-director of The Minerva Centre for the Interdisciplinary Study of the End of Life. His academic work focuses mainly on old age and the life course. He is the author of numerous articles and books among which are : The Limbo People : A study of the Constitution of the Time Universe Among the Aged (Routledge 1980/2023); Managing Change in Old Age : The Control of Meaning in an Institutional Setting (Sate University of New York Press 1992); Old Age : Constructions and Deconstructions (Cambridge University Press 1994); From First Principles: An Experiment in Aging (Praeger 1996); Against Hybridity : Social Impasses in a Globalizing World (Polity 2015); Twilight Nationalism : Politics of Existence at Life's End (co-authored with Daniel Monterescu) ( Stanford University Press 2018); Suicide Social Dramas : Life-Giving Moral Breakdowns in the Israeli public Sphere (coauthored with Raquel Romberg ) (Routledge 2022).