A significant silence: Single mothers and the current Israeli housing discourse

Margalit, Talia

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2021.04.002

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“…Israel is a distinctively family-oriented society, as evidenced by a vast literature that encompasses various aspects of family life: from marriage to single-parenthood, from the family as a national symbol to questions of tradition and ethnicity, from motherhood to gender and more (Lavee and Katz, 2003;Herbst, 2013;Donath, 2015;Gavriel-Fried and Shilo, 2017;Hashiloni-Dolev, 2018;Margalit, 2021;Strier and Perez-Vaisvidovsky, 2021). In this scholarship, there is only rare reference to family practices or to doing family (Forte, 2003;Lahad et al, 2018).…”

Section: Researching Families and Poverty In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Research on families in poverty offers either policy-oriented or critical feminist perspectives (for example, Krumer-Nevo, 2006;Motzafi-Haller, 2018;Lavee, 2021). In both cases, the focus is primarily on women, rather than families: their individual ways of coping with poverty, and (regarding lone mothers in particular) the effects of welfare reforms (Krumer-Nevo, 2005;Herbst, 2013;Helman 2019;Lavee, 2021;Benjamin, 2020a;Margalit, 2021). While the scholarship spans various disciplinesfrom social work to sociology and gender studies -the main questions revolve around access to resources and the burden of caring, which habitually rests on women.…”

Section: Researching Families and Poverty In Israelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Doing family while poor: agentic hopelessness as lived knowledge

Kaplan

Levy

Buzhish-Sasson

et al. 2022

Families, Relationships and Societies

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What does ‘doing family while poor’ teach us about agency, resilience and care under COVID-19? Set against a dual backdrop of increasing economic hardships and expanding inequalities, and in light of a shifting perspective in poverty and family studies, we employ David Morgan’s family practices approach to study the lived realities of family life through the perspective of everyday relationships. Our research, led by a team comprised of academics and activists who themselves endure poverty, is set to allow people experiencing poverty to document their everyday lives. In their journals we identify a form of social awareness to the politics of poverty, which consist of negative emotions emanating from one’s daily struggles against the harsh reality of inequality, yet do not lead to paralysis and inaction. We dub this state agentic hopelessness.

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