Images copyright to Tali Ziv, 2020.

Publications:

Monographs

Ziv, Tali. “The Treatment Game: The Street, The State, and the Global Politics of Recovery .” Under Consideration by Stanford University Press.

Peer Reviewed Journals

[Partial List – Rank order from in-press to published]

Ziv, Tali. “Judicial Discretion and a Lack of Standardization in Philadelphia Probation.” Justice Quarterly. Pending submission.

Ziv, Tali. “Structuring the Neoliberal Carceral State.” Social Anthropology. Forthcoming.

Ziv, Tali. 2024. “When you leave out the door”: The Streets, Medicaid, and Boundary Spaces of Healthcare in Urban Poverty.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 39 (2): 1-15.

Sufrin, Carolyn, Ziv, Tali, Kramer, Camille, Deyton, Laura. 2024 “They talked to me like I was dirt under their feet”: Treatment and Withdrawal Experiences of Incarcerated Pregnant People with Opioid Use Disorder.” Qualitative Research in Health. 6: 1-9.

Ziv Tali. 2023. “The Trap: Care and Mystification in Carceral Governance.” Ethnos. 90 (2): 287-312.

Ziv, Tali, Shefner, Ruth, Sufrin, Carolyn. 2023. “More than Freedom: Addressing the Limits of Decarceration without Sufficient Structural Support.” International Journal of Prisoner Health. Vol. 19 (4): 489-491.

Ziv, Tali. 2023. “‘I’m Trapped Here: Ethnography, Structural Violence and Moral Injury.’” Position Piece in Special Section “Experimental Engagements with Ethnography, Moral Agency, and Care,” Co-Editor. Medicine Anthropology Theory. Vol. 10 (1).

Brown Julia, D’Arcy Michael, Myers, Neely and Tali Ziv. 2023. “Introduction.” Special Section “Experimental Engagements with Ethnography, Moral Agency, and Care,” Co- Editor. Medicine Anthropology Theory. Vol. 10 (1).

Ziv, Tali. 2022. “The Practice of Informality: Hustling, Anticipating, and Informality Refusing in the Postindustrial City.” International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 10.1111/1468-2427.13134 / Best Article Prize 2022 IJURR

Ziv, Tali.  2017. “It be hard just existing”: Institutional Surveillance and Precarious Objects in the Northeast Rustbelt. Ethnography. Vol. 18(2):153-174.

Myers, Neely, Ziv, Tali. 2016. “No one ever even asked me that before”: Autobiographical Incoherence, Psychosis and Recovery among African Americans in a High Poverty, Urban Neighborhood. Medical Anthropology Quarterly. Vol. 30 (3): 395-413.

 Book reviews

Ziv, Tali. 2025. Review of Substances, Welfare, and Social Relations. Amber Gaszo, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023, 288 pp. Contemporary Sociology Reviews.

 Ziv, Tali. 2016. Review of Greenbaum, Susan D., Blaming the Poor: The Long Shadow of the Moynihan Report on Cruel Images about Poverty and Tani, Karen M., States of Dependency: Welfare, Rights, and American Governance, 1935-1972. “Poverty, Race, Culture, and the Contentious Role of Social Science: A Historical Review.”  H-Citizenship, H-Net Reviews.

Ziv, Tali. 2018. Review of Race and the Politics of Deception: The Making of an American City. Christopher Mele, New York: New York University Press, 2017, 208 pp. Journal: City & Society.

 Ziv, Tali. 2018. Review of Mary Douglas, Edited by Richard Fardon, Cultures and Crises: Understanding Risk and Resolution and Mary Douglas, Edited by Richard Fardon, A Very Personal Method: Anthropological Writings Drawn from Life. “Revisiting a Classic: The Later Work of Mary Douglas.” Transforming Anthropology Book Reviews. Spring, 2018. [Recognized as a top 20 most read paper from 2017-2018 in Transforming Anthropology]

Public Scholarship:

 Ziv, Tali. 2025. “The Police and Social Work.” Interview and production by Noelle Herhusky-Schneider. WFHB Radio, Deep Dive, Indiana Bloomington.

Ziv, Tali. 2022. “Conducting Fieldwork in the US.” Interview and production by Marie Vidal. Anthropod (podcast of Cultural Anthropology).

Ziv, Tali. 2021. “Incarceration as Harm Reduction: The realities of lethal street-based opioid overdoses in neoliberal Philadelphia.” Somatosphere.

 Ziv, Tali. Interview with Carolyn Rouse, “Episode 6: Immigration, Discourse, and Trump’s Border Wall,” Anthropological Airwaves (podcast of American Anthropologist). Available at: http://www.americananthropologist.org/2017/10/09/anthropological-airwaves-episode-6/