Faculty Lecturer
Stephen Leacock Building
855 Sherbrooke Street West
Montreal, Quebec, H3A 2T7
E-mail: milos.brocic [at] mcgill.ca (i)na.filkobski [at] mcgill.ca
Research Areas
Political Sociology, Social Movements, Transnational Civil Society, Nationalism and Conflict, Ethnography
Biography
PhD McGill, 2022
My work focuses on social change, civil society, social movements, conflict, and repression.
In my current project, I use mixed methods including ethnographic fieldwork, content analysis, and in-depth interviews to explore the role of political discourse in facilitating or hampering the action of progressive and extreme-right actors within civil society.
I use the Israeli case study to analyse attempts by leading politicians to curb the work of human-rights organizations through various repressive laws.
I identify the impact of these nonviolent forms of political repression on the daily functions of human-rights NGOs that challenge the regime and theorize the role of private extreme-right non-state actors in this process. My findings show that while laws eventually fail to pass in their restrictive format, the legislation process creates a broader discourse of de-legitimization, and “deviatization” of human rights, that has significant consequences for human- rights NGOs and the larger national political context.
My other strand of research focuses on community and grassroots mobilization efforts to address environmental degradation on various scales.
Selected Publications
Filkobski, Ina, and Shor, Eran. “Business as Usual”? Human Rights NGOs’ Adaptation Strategies to Repressive Legislation." Sociological Perspectives. (Forthcoming)
Shor, Eran, and Filkobski, Ina. "Symbolic boundary work: Jewish and Arab femicide in Israeli Hebrew newspapers." The British Journal of Sociology (2024).
Shach-Pinsley, Dalit, Orenstein, Daniel, Asif, Shamai and Filkobski, Ina. “Evaluation, analysis and compatibility between models for sustainability, spatial location and the perception of the local community.”. [Hebrew]. Ecology and Environment, (2019):10, 32-37.
Shor, Eran, Filkobski, Ina, Ben-Nun Bloom, Pazit, Hayder Alkilabi, and William Su. "Does counterterrorist legislation hurt human rights practices? A longitudinal cross-national analysis." Social science research 58 (2016): 104-121.
Filkobski, Ina, Yodan Rofè, and Alon Tal. "Community gardens in Israel: Characteristics and perceived functions." Urban Forestry & Urban Greening 17 (2016): 148-157.