Perla Serfaty

Perla Serfaty
Portrait photo of a gray-haired woman standing in front of a book shelf filled with books.
Perla Serfaty (2016)
Born1944
Marrakesh, Morocco
Other names
  • Perla Serfaty-Garzon
  • Perla Korosec-Serfaty
Citizenship
  • France
  • Canada
Occupations
AwardsJ. I. Segal Jewish Book Award
Academic background
EducationPh.D.
Alma materUniversity of Strasbourg
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Strasbourg
Websitehttps://perlaserfaty.net/

Perla Serfaty (pen names, Perla Serfaty-Garzon and Perla Korosec-Serfaty; born in 1944 in Marrakesh, Morocco) is a French and Canadian academic, sociologist, psychosociologist, writer, and essayist, known in particular for her work on home and intimacy. She is a theorist of domestic intimacy, hospitality and the appropriation of inhabited places,[1] and an expert in environmental psychology.[2] Her book Vieillesse et Engendrements. La longévité dans la tradition juive., dedicated to the traditional Jewish view of longevity as transmitted by the Hebrew Bible, was awarded the J. I. Segal Jewish Book Award in 2014. The contribution of Serfaty's work to environmental psychology was distinguished by her induction in 2018 into the International Association of People-Environment Studies (IAPS) Hall of Fame.[3]

  1. ^ "En mouvement – Le chez-soi à l'épreuve des mobilités – un texte de Perla Serfaty-Garzon". perlaserfaty.net (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2023 – via archive.wikiwix.com.
  2. ^ Gaulier, Armelle; Martin, Denis-Constant (19 July 2017). Cape Town Harmonies: Memory, Humour and Resilience. African Books Collective. pp. 49–. ISBN 978-1-928331-51-3. OCLC 1000439814.
  3. ^ "Hall of fame". IAPS Association (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2023.

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