Mai Albzour
Mai Albzour
Albzour holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland. She has published several research papers in the fields of Sociology and Political Psychology. Her current research interests lie in the broad areas of Intergroup Relations, in terms of: Intergroup Contact Theory, Social Change, Conflict, Collective and National Identities. And more precisely, she is concerned with investigating the phenomenon of Normalization within the Settler Colonial Context in Palestine.
Albzour, Mai. (2013). The Status of Woman in Islam: According to the Guardianship Verses from the Palestinian Legislation Perspective (In Arabic). Muwatin Institution: Ramallah, Palestine.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306066439_The_status_of_women_in_Islam_mkant_almrat_fy_alaslam_fy_zl_tawyl_ayt_alqwamt_mnzwr_flstyny
Al Bzour, M. (2015). The Palestinian leftist movement: between political reality and cultural heritage. Contemporary Arab Affairs, 8(3), 339-350.
https://brill.com/view/journals/jcaa/8/3/article-p339_4.xml
Albzour, M. (2017). Normalization between the duality of rejection and acceptance (In Arabic), Jadal Journal of Mada Al-Carmel Arab Center for Applied Social research, (31), 1-9.
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mai-Albzour/publication/331299161_alttby_ma_b_t_thnayy_alrfd_walqbwl_my_albzwr/links/5c71138fa6fdcc4715948b41/alttby-ma-b-t-thnayy-alrfd-walqbwl-my-albzwr.pdf
Albzour, M., Penic, S., Nasser, R., & Green, E. G. (2019). Support for "normalization" of relations between Palestinians and Israelis, and how it relates to contact and resistance in the West Bank. Journal of Social and Political Psychology, 7(2), 978-996.
https://jspp.psychopen.eu/index.php/jspp/article/view/5177/5177.html
Dixon, J., Elcheroth, G., Kerr, Ph., Drury, J., Albzour, M., Subašic, E., Durrheim, K. and Green, E. G. (2020). It’s not just ‘us’ versus ‘them’: moving beyond binary perspectives on intergroup processes. European Review of Social Psychology. ISSN 1046-3283.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10463283.2020.1738767
Albzour, M. (2020). The Deconstruction of the Concept of Normalization within the Context of the Settler-Colonialism in Palestine. “The Duality of Acceptance and Rejection”, Journal of Language, Discourse & Society (the International Sociological Association). 7(2), 1-21.
https://www.language-and-society.org/the-deconstruction-of-the-concept-of-normalization-within-the-context-of-the-settler-colonialism-in-palestine-the-duality-of-acceptance-and-rejection/
Albzour, M. (2020). The Palestinian leftist movement: between political reality and cultural heritage, translated article (In Arabic). In, Kan’neh Shareef. Islamic- Arabic cultural and Anthropology studies through Palestinian cause. The Palestinian Cultural Heritage and Society Studies Center/In`ash Al Osra Association, Palestine- Albeireh, 151-167.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325793271_alhrkt_alysaryt_alflstynyt_byn_waq_syasy_wmwrwth_thqafy_trjmt_lmqal_nshr_ballght_alanjlyzyt
Albzour, M., Bady, Z., Elcheroth, G., Penic, S., Reimer, N., & Green, E. G. (2022). Talking to a (Segregation) Wall: Intergroup Contact and Attitudes Toward Normalization Among Palestinians From the Occupied Territories. Political Psychology.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/pops.12816
Saab, R., Harb, C., Ayanian, A. H., Badaan, V., & Albzour, M. (2022). Psychology in the Arab Region: A Critical Perspective on Challenges and Ways Forward. APS Observer, 35.
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/observer/gs-psychology-arab-region
Hakim, N., Abi-Ghannam, G., Saab, R., Albzour, M., Zebian, Y., & Adams, G. (2022). Turning the lens in the study of precarity: On experimental social psychology's acquiescence to the settler?colonial status quo in historic Palestine. British Journal of Social Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/bjso.12595
Park, J., van den Broek, K. L., Bhullar, N., Ogunbode, C. A., Schermer, J. A., Doran, R., ..., Albzour, M., & Yadav, R. (2022). Comparison of the inter-item correlations of the Big Five Inventory-10 (BFI-10) between Western and non-Western contexts. Personality and Individual Differences, 196, 111751.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2022.111751
Ogunbode, C., Doran, R., Hanss, D., Ojala, M., Salmela-Aro, K., van den Broek, K. L., ..., Albzour, M., & Karasu, M. (2022). Climate anxiety, wellbeing and pro-environmental action: Correlates of negative emotional responses to climate change in 32 countries. Journal of Environmental Psychology, 101887.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvp.2022.101887
Albzour, M. (2022). The Palestinian Nationalist Movement. The Wiley-Blackwell encyclopedia of social and political movements, 2nd e.
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/9780470674871.wbespm603
Penic, S., Donnay, K., Bhavnani, R., Elcheroth, G., & Albzour, M. (2023). How Does the Geography of Surveillance Affect Collective Action? Political Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1111/pops.12925
Penic, S., Vollhardt, J. R., Donnay, K., Albzour, M., & Bhavnani, R. (2023). The geography of military occupation and its effect on Palestinian community cohesion, norms, and resistance motivation. Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology.
https://doi.org/10.1037/pac0000684
Albzour, M. (2023). The Concept of Normalization within the Structure of Settler Colonialism in Palestine: Between the Duality of Rejection and Acceptance (In Arabic). In Rouhana, N & Hawari, A (Eds), Zionism and Settler Colonialism: Palestinian Approaches. The Arab Center for Applied Social Research, Mada Al-Carmel, 341-487.
https://mada-research.org/storage/PDF/%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A8/%D9%83%D8%AA%D8%A7%D8%A8%20%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%83%D9%88%D9%84%D9%88%D9%86%D9%8A%D8%A7%D9%84%D9%8A%D8%A9%20%20(1).pdf
Methodological Reports and Datasets:
Albzour, M., Nasser, R., Bady, Z., Elcheroth, G., Green, E.G., & Penic, S. (2017): Pluralistic Memories Project - Palestine - Surveys [Datasets]. Distributed by FORS, Lausanne.
https://www.swissubase.ch/en/catalogue/studies/12876/latest/datasets/1018/1747/contract/usage-license
Albzour, M., Nasser, R., Bady, Z., Elcheroth, G., Green, E. G., & Penic. S., (2019). PMP main survey in Palestine. FORSbase. (adapt for APA)
Albzour, M., Iadadwa, W., & Penic, S. (2019). “Methodological Report: Pluralistic Memories Project Main Survey in Palestine.”. Zenodo.
https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3580611