Michal Krumer‐nevo
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 4522446 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Michal Krumer‐nevo |
| NOMBRES | Michal |
| APELLIDO | Krumer‐nevo |
| FIRMA | NEVO M K |
| AFILIACIONES | Ben-Gurion University of the Negev |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0813-5439 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 48 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 331 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 48 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2003 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 10 |
Promoting equity literacy
The present study is part of a broader research-practice partnership (RPP) with an Israeli high school network focused on developing critical, poverty-aware pedagogical practices to promote equity within schools. As part of the RPP, homeroom teachers participated in 10-session workshops introducing a critical approach to poverty. The workshops included discussions on poverty-related school events and the incorporation of reflexive action and thou…
The power of the Birkenstocks
In this [special] issue…. Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect
Author's Response to the Reviews
The power of the Birkenstocks
Critical social work in public social services
Whereas some studies have addressed the conditions and practices required to infuse critical notions into the organizational context of public social services, there is a paucity of knowledge on what a critical public service can look like in actual practice. This article explores the possibility of applying critical theory and practice at the organizational level of public social services. It focuses on one social services department in Israel t…
Social workers as willful subjects
How does social workers' agency come about amid the structural constraints they face in their everyday practice? Based on ethnographic fieldwork at a social services department in Israel, this article offers insights into social workers' agentic performances. Fieldwork lasted four and a half months (March–August 2021) and included daily participation in the department life, multiple interviews with all staff members ( n = 28), and participant obs…
Talking about sexual desire
Dynamics of Change in Poverty Measures amongst Social Service Users in Israel
Although social service departments (SSDs) in Israel are the main institutions through which social workers provide social care to people in poverty, the dynamics between the multiple dimensions of poverty amongst service users (SUs) and the consequences of social care to these dynamics have not been systematically explored. The current study is the first study that aims to fill this gap by comparing multidimensional poverty amongst 159 SUs. The …
Poverty-aware teacher education
Education is considered a path for escaping poverty. However, poverty and lack of success in school are closely linked. Understanding structural factors within society that cause poverty and their influence on learning and educational outcomes requires reshaping teacher education programmes. There is a need for programmes that adopt the social justice perspective and challenge prevalent deficit perceptions of people in poverty, through critical r…
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism
Facing the growing domination of neoliberalism and new public management in welfare services, social work scholars and practitioners are engaged in efforts to resist it. Using Schram's concept of radical incrementalism, this article describes and analyzes the development of the Poverty‐Aware Paradigm (PAP) in Israel in light of this resistance. The PAP is a critical framework that focuses on poverty as a central axis of the analysis of power rela…
The World Is Very Competitive and Cruel, You Won’t Get Any Special Treatment’
Young people from ethnic minority groups are at the centre of public concern in modern societies. This article presents the findings of a qualitative study that critically examines the discourses of thirty-three social workers who work with young people of Ethiopian ethnic origin in Israel. The findings reveal three key discourses: the social inclusion discourse, the meritocracy discourse and the social conflict discourse. Alongside the dominance…
Poverty Awareness
This study describes the development and validation of a new Poverty Awareness Scale (PAS). Existing scales of attitudes towards poverty focus on poverty’s aetiology, leaving other notions regarding poverty underexplored. Our new scale is based on the key role that relational–symbolic aspects of poverty play in current critical poverty knowledge and adds the examination of these aspects. The scale was distributed to 127 social workers and social …
Poverty in Arab-Palestinian society in Israel
Arab-Palestinian families have one of the highest poverty rates in Israel. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding this population from a social work perspective. This article presents an analysis of 64 supervision sessions held with Arab-Palestinian social workers with the aim of identifying context-specific knowledge on the barriers service users face in their daily lives. Our findings point to three types of barriers: economic, sociopo…
Mental Distress during the Coronavirus Pandemic in Israel
Based on Pearlin's stress process model and the social inequality approach to health, this study used a social lens to explore the role of socioeconomic inequities in mental distress during the COVID-19 pandemic in Israel. Specifically, we examined people's pre-pandemic sociodemographic characteristics and economic situation, and the economic effects of the pandemic itself on mental distress. A real-time survey was conducted in May 2020 among 273…
Redistribution and recognition in social work practice
Despite growing recognition of the links between poverty and child maltreatment, little is known about the specific practices and strategies utilized to directly respond to families' poverty. One such practice is the provision of material assistance, which is widespread in child protection settings but has received negligible scholarly attention. The article aims to describe and conceptualize this underresearched practice and to explore the chall…
Covid-19
Preliminary evidence indicates that Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) affects people differently along social axes, among which socioeconomic status is key. This study used mixed methods to add data from Israel to this developing body of knowledge. Using closed questions, the study compared 126 people living in poverty with 147 people not living in poverty in terms of their economic and employment status, need for assistance, and mental distres…
Radical Hope
Service users' perspectives of social treatment in social service departments in Israel
This article uses mixed methods to examine service user satisfaction with social work treatment in social services departments (SSDs) in Israel-its level, the factors that influence it and its experiential dimensions. A total of 235 service users (SUs) from 11 SSDs were interviewed for this study. They were divided into three groups: (a) SUs receiving standard treatment; (b) SUs participating in poverty-aware programs and (c) SUs receiving a pove…
You Decide’
In the scholarly writing on child protection, there is a broad consensus regarding the importance of parents’ participation in knowledge-production processes. However, there is limited research on the conditions required to make parental participation possible in high-risk crisis situations. In particular, there is a dearth of writing that takes into consideration the context of poverty that influences families’ lives and the power imbalances bet…
Developing a Poverty-Aware Pedagogy
Social work scholars have argued that poverty reminds us of the necessary commitment to educate professional social workers. Being inspired by a conceptual framework that captures how poverty-awareness can be the subject of teaching in social work programmes, this article offers a qualitative analysis of the reflections being made by a cohort of students about their learning process in a post-academic course. Five common themes are discussed: (i)…
Who Pays the Price for Parental Education–Occupation Mismatch? Evidence From an Israeli City
In recent years, education–occupation mismatch has become an important area of social research. However, little is known about its impact on the intergenerational transmission of educational attainment. This study investigates the possible negative consequences of a specific aspect of parental education–occupation mismatch, also known as overeducation, for high school students. Drawing from a sample of high school students in an Israeli city with…
Intervention in a Real-Life Context
The spatial aspects of therapeutic intervention receive marginal attention in the practice and discourse of therapeutic professions. Currently, influenced by the classic Freudian tradition, the central therapeutic space of social workers and psychologists is the agency and the office. Despite the fact that models of home therapy have been developed over the years, its practice has remained marginal in the professional discourse. This article intr…
Poverty and the political
This article explores the relations between social work theory, research and practice in regard to poverty, arguing for the need to bring the political back into these three dimensions of the discipline/profession. Throughout the last decades, social work has been treating practice as a discrete technology, and left outside questions stemming from different theoretical approaches regarding the desired relationship between social workers and servi…
Bread of Shame
This article examines processes of othering in seven soup kitchens in Israel through participant observations as a staff-volunteer and as a diner. The empirical study of othering and otherness in relation to poverty is focused mainly on discourse analysis of texts that appeared in the media. This article contributes to this body of knowledge by analyzing the everyday routines, habits, norms, rules, and arrangements of space and time that turn the…
Writing Against Othering
Writing about the Other arouses questions of representation, and specifically the risk of Othering, that is, the risk of portraying the other essentially different, and translating this difference to inferiority. In this article the authors discuss the textual mechanisms that create Othering and suggest three modes of writing that have the potential to resist Othering: (1) narrative, which enables the retrieval of subjectivity; (2) dialog, which …
Poverty-Aware Social Work
This article presents a new paradigm for social work with poor people called the poverty-aware social work paradigm (PAP). The paradigm offers an updated connection between social work and the current body of knowledge known as new welfare theorising or critical poverty knowledge. The paradigm consists of three interrelated facets: ontological (concerned with the questions: What is poverty? What are the essential characteristics of service users?…
Critical Poverty Knowledge
Poverty knowledge has made a long-term contribution to the images and representations of people in poverty. Yet one can find only limited analysis of poverty knowledge and the politics of representation. This article describes current directions in poverty knowledge and analyses the degree of their enhancement or their challenging of Othering towards people who live in poverty. Specifically, the article refers to the hegemonic narrative, which re…
Listening to ‘life knowledge’
This article points to a current research direction in poverty studies, which explores the knowledge of people living in poverty. The article examines three studies from the USA, Europe and Israel which give voice to the ‘life knowledge’ of people living in poverty regarding different aspects of their lives. Through these examples, the article examines the potential contribution of ‘life knowledge’, possessed by people who are welfare-reliant, to…
From noise to voice
English The voice of poor people is heard very often as mere noise, signifying nothing, or at best as reflecting knowledge which is irrelevant. This is to be seen in public attitudes and also in professional settings. This article exemplifies the contribution made by listening to knowledge possessed by people living in poverty. French La voix des personnes pauvres est le plus souvent entendue comme du bruit, sans signification, ou bien au mieux c…
Poverty and the political
This article explores the relations between social work theory, research and practice in regard to poverty, arguing for the need to bring the political back into these three dimensions of the discipline/profession. Throughout the last decades, social work has been treating practice as a discrete technology, and left outside questions stemming from different theoretical approaches regarding the desired relationship between social workers and servi…
From voice to knowledge
This article discusses the relations between participatory action research and feminist research, through an examination of the metaphor of 'voice' and its possible replacement with the idea of 'knowledge.' The article describes in detail a participatory action research project undertaken in Israel, which was aimed at forging an inclusive debate through collaboration between people living in poverty, academics, policy‐makers, social practitioners…
Interview Shocks and Shockwaves
This article uses a postmodern lens to examine "shocks," cognitive emotional reactions of the interviewer to the unexpected, and shows how shocks and "shockwaves," responses to shocks, are related to the process of Othering. The concepts master narrative, coherence, Othering, positionality, and nonunitary subjectivity are used to present the analysis. Using excerpts from research interviews as illustrations, the article describes three types of s…
Intersectionality and Critical Social Work with Girls
Feminist Social Work
Although feminist social work has been practiced in Israel since the 1970s, little has been written about it. This qualitative study aims to fill this gap by documenting and conceptualizing feminist theory of practice and actual practice based on interviews with 12 feminist social workers. Findings reveal that the interviewees perceive feminist practice as significantly different from traditional social work practice based on four analytical prin…
Bread of Shame
This article examines processes of othering in seven soup kitchens in Israel through participant observations as a staff-volunteer and as a diner. The empirical study of othering and otherness in relation to poverty is focused mainly on discourse analysis of texts that appeared in the media. This article contributes to this body of knowledge by analyzing the everyday routines, habits, norms, rules, and arrangements of space and time that turn the…
Applying critical social work in direct practice with families
This paper seeks to further discourse concerning the implications of critical social work for direct practice with families and children. It presents and discusses a hypothetical example of how a social worker in a social care agency in Israel can incorporate critical social work notions into an official social work report. The paper begins by presenting key concepts in critical social work, their manifestations in practice and their implications…
In a different mindset
Community Sense of Coherence Among Adolescents as Related to Their Involvement in Risk Behaviors
The current study employs a new concept–community sense of coherence (CSOC)–that measures youth's perceptions of their own community and its potential as a source for protective factors and assets. The theoretical foundation for this measure is the salutogenic approach and its concept of “sense of coherence.” A total of 1023 students from the 8th to 11th grades, living in 3 Israeli communities, filled out self-reported questionnaires that include…
Poverty in Arab-Palestinian society in Israel
Arab-Palestinian families have one of the highest poverty rates in Israel. However, there is a lack of knowledge regarding this population from a social work perspective. This article presents an analysis of 64 supervision sessions held with Arab-Palestinian social workers with the aim of identifying context-specific knowledge on the barriers service users face in their daily lives. Our findings point to three types of barriers: economic, sociopo…
Critical Social Work
This performance ethnography presents a multi-vocal dialog of a group of social workers and social work students dealing with personal and professional issues of critical social work. Performance ethnography is an innovative qualitative research method that uses a dramatic medium to bridge between theory and personal experiences and between research, teaching, and learning. Through personal writing and a discussion of an intervention story, we pr…
Reading a Poor Woman’s Life
Listening to the voices of poor women is a major goal of feminists who are dealing with the subject of poverty; however, its implementation is far from simple. Problems of power and ethics are enmeshed with the question of how to understand these voices and how to make them heard without exploiting or distorting them. This article counters these issues in presenting a feminist reading of Miriam—a woman living in poverty and social deprivation. Th…
From ‘a coalition of despair’ to ‘a covenant of help’ in social work with families in distress
This paper proposes new directions for thinking about necessary change in methods of the daily practice of social services with families living in deep and long-term poverty and social marginality in Israel and in the Western world in general. This call for change is based on the documented successes of special projects dealing with these families. The new lines of thought entail a change in the way social workers understand the client’s personal…
Service users' perspectives of social treatment in social service departments in Israel
This article uses mixed methods to examine service user satisfaction with social work treatment in social services departments (SSDs) in Israel-its level, the factors that influence it and its experiential dimensions. A total of 235 service users (SUs) from 11 SSDs were interviewed for this study. They were divided into three groups: (a) SUs receiving standard treatment; (b) SUs participating in poverty-aware programs and (c) SUs receiving a pove…
Partnership-based practice with young people
The recent literature concerning partnership between professionals and young people reveals important developments regarding the nature of partnership: from short-term partnerships with young people's parents intended to improve decision-making in the context of critical life decisions, to a growing interest in direct partnership between professionals and young people as a core principle of long-term relationships. Although it is widely acknowled…
Poverty, social work, and radical incrementalism
Facing the growing domination of neoliberalism and new public management in welfare services, social work scholars and practitioners are engaged in efforts to resist it. Using Schram's concept of radical incrementalism, this article describes and analyzes the development of the Poverty‐Aware Paradigm (PAP) in Israel in light of this resistance. The PAP is a critical framework that focuses on poverty as a central axis of the analysis of power rela…
Redistribution and recognition in social work practice
Despite growing recognition of the links between poverty and child maltreatment, little is known about the specific practices and strategies utilized to directly respond to families' poverty. One such practice is the provision of material assistance, which is widespread in child protection settings but has received negligible scholarly attention. The article aims to describe and conceptualize this underresearched practice and to explore the chall…
Intervention in a Real-Life Context
The spatial aspects of therapeutic intervention receive marginal attention in the practice and discourse of therapeutic professions. Currently, influenced by the classic Freudian tradition, the central therapeutic space of social workers and psychologists is the agency and the office. Despite the fact that models of home therapy have been developed over the years, its practice has remained marginal in the professional discourse. This article intr…
Poverty‐aware social work practice
In recent years, there has been an increase in scholarly writing on the theory and practice of critical social work with people living in poverty. Yet there is a lack of research on the experiences and perspectives of service users regarding this kind of practice. This paper presents a qualitative study that explored the practice of a special poverty‐aware social work programme in Israel, through the experiences of women who took part in it. Usin…
Searching for Poverty-aware Social Work
This article aims to enrich the current limited body of knowledge regarding social work professional discourse. More specifically, it seeks to examine the extent and ways in which the social work intra-profession discourse, as it is manifested in formal job descriptions of social workers in Israel, reflects the commitment to working with people living in poverty and to confronting poverty. We provide a brief review of the concept of professional …
From ‘a coalition of despair’ to ‘a covenant of help’ in social work with families in distress
This paper proposes new directions for thinking about necessary change in methods of the daily practice of social services with families living in deep and long-term poverty and social marginality in Israel and in the Western world in general. This call for change is based on the documented successes of special projects dealing with these families. The new lines of thought entail a change in the way social workers understand the client’s personal…
Reading a Poor Woman’s Life
Listening to the voices of poor women is a major goal of feminists who are dealing with the subject of poverty; however, its implementation is far from simple. Problems of power and ethics are enmeshed with the question of how to understand these voices and how to make them heard without exploiting or distorting them. This article counters these issues in presenting a feminist reading of Miriam—a woman living in poverty and social deprivation. Th…
Listening to ‘life knowledge’
This article points to a current research direction in poverty studies, which explores the knowledge of people living in poverty. The article examines three studies from the USA, Europe and Israel which give voice to the ‘life knowledge’ of people living in poverty regarding different aspects of their lives. Through these examples, the article examines the potential contribution of ‘life knowledge’, possessed by people who are welfare-reliant, to…
Social Workers and Their Long-Term Clients
This qualitative study examined the relations between clients of a welfare department in the south of Israel, who are in deep, long-term economic and social distress and the social workers who serve them, examining each respective group's perceptions of the other. The data was collected from two sources: (1) Interviews conducted with all the families who were defined by the social workers as being “chronic” clients in a small development town in …
Service Users’ Perspectives on the Benefits System in Israel
This article presents a position paper on Israel's benefits system. It was produced in the framework of a participatory action research with the collaboration of welfare services users and social welfare policy practitioners, academics, social practitioners, and social activists. Some 78 persons living in poverty, from various population groups, were asked, in group settings, to describe their experiences with the benefit system and services, the…
Interview Shocks and Shockwaves
This article uses a postmodern lens to examine "shocks," cognitive emotional reactions of the interviewer to the unexpected, and shows how shocks and "shockwaves," responses to shocks, are related to the process of Othering. The concepts master narrative, coherence, Othering, positionality, and nonunitary subjectivity are used to present the analysis. Using excerpts from research interviews as illustrations, the article describes three types of s…
Inclusion and its implementation
This paper presents the perspectives of youth workers on an experimental social-business initiative programme designed to bring about the inclusion of ‘at-risk’ youth in community centres. The programme was implemented in three community centres that are part of a nationwide organization of community centres which provide social–educational–cultural activities for the general population within the community. The uniqueness of the programme lies i…
Service Users and Personal Social Services in Israel
This article presents both the perspectives of social service clients (participants) living in poverty and dependent on Israel's personal social services and the participatory research method used in this study. Discussion topics were determined by the participants, who described their experiences with personal social services providers, their perceptions and attitudes towards personal social services, and their recommendations for improvements i…
From noise to voice
English The voice of poor people is heard very often as mere noise, signifying nothing, or at best as reflecting knowledge which is irrelevant. This is to be seen in public attitudes and also in professional settings. This article exemplifies the contribution made by listening to knowledge possessed by people living in poverty. French La voix des personnes pauvres est le plus souvent entendue comme du bruit, sans signification, ou bien au mieux c…
From voice to knowledge
This article discusses the relations between participatory action research and feminist research, through an examination of the metaphor of 'voice' and its possible replacement with the idea of 'knowledge.' The article describes in detail a participatory action research project undertaken in Israel, which was aimed at forging an inclusive debate through collaboration between people living in poverty, academics, policy‐makers, social practitioners…
Critical Poverty Knowledge
Poverty knowledge has made a long-term contribution to the images and representations of people in poverty. Yet one can find only limited analysis of poverty knowledge and the politics of representation. This article describes current directions in poverty knowledge and analyses the degree of their enhancement or their challenging of Othering towards people who live in poverty. Specifically, the article refers to the hegemonic narrative, which re…
Searching for Poverty-aware Social Work
This article aims to enrich the current limited body of knowledge regarding social work professional discourse. More specifically, it seeks to examine the extent and ways in which the social work intra-profession discourse, as it is manifested in formal job descriptions of social workers in Israel, reflects the commitment to working with people living in poverty and to confronting poverty. We provide a brief review of the concept of professional …
Applying critical social work in direct practice with families
This paper seeks to further discourse concerning the implications of critical social work for direct practice with families and children. It presents and discusses a hypothetical example of how a social worker in a social care agency in Israel can incorporate critical social work notions into an official social work report. The paper begins by presenting key concepts in critical social work, their manifestations in practice and their implications…
Writing Against Othering
Writing about the Other arouses questions of representation, and specifically the risk of Othering, that is, the risk of portraying the other essentially different, and translating this difference to inferiority. In this article the authors discuss the textual mechanisms that create Othering and suggest three modes of writing that have the potential to resist Othering: (1) narrative, which enables the retrieval of subjectivity; (2) dialog, which …
In a different mindset
Partnership-based practice with young people
The recent literature concerning partnership between professionals and young people reveals important developments regarding the nature of partnership: from short-term partnerships with young people's parents intended to improve decision-making in the context of critical life decisions, to a growing interest in direct partnership between professionals and young people as a core principle of long-term relationships. Although it is widely acknowled…
Intersectionality and Critical Social Work with Girls
Poverty‐aware social work practice
In recent years, there has been an increase in scholarly writing on the theory and practice of critical social work with people living in poverty. Yet there is a lack of research on the experiences and perspectives of service users regarding this kind of practice. This paper presents a qualitative study that explored the practice of a special poverty‐aware social work programme in Israel, through the experiences of women who took part in it. Usin…
Neither Seeing Nor Seen
Social exclusion has been identified as a prominent factor informing our understanding of young people involvement in gang life, violence and crime. While the literature on social exclusion focuses on the education and employment systems, there is a limited literature regarding the role played by correctional institutions in exacerbating social exclusion. This article explores the reciprocal relationships between young people involved in the drug…
Community Sense of Coherence Among Adolescents as Related to Their Involvement in Risk Behaviors
The current study employs a new concept–community sense of coherence (CSOC)–that measures youth's perceptions of their own community and its potential as a source for protective factors and assets. The theoretical foundation for this measure is the salutogenic approach and its concept of “sense of coherence.” A total of 1023 students from the 8th to 11th grades, living in 3 Israeli communities, filled out self-reported questionnaires that include…
Poverty-Aware Social Work
This article presents a new paradigm for social work with poor people called the poverty-aware social work paradigm (PAP). The paradigm offers an updated connection between social work and the current body of knowledge known as new welfare theorising or critical poverty knowledge. The paradigm consists of three interrelated facets: ontological (concerned with the questions: What is poverty? What are the essential characteristics of service users?…
Feminist Social Work
Although feminist social work has been practiced in Israel since the 1970s, little has been written about it. This qualitative study aims to fill this gap by documenting and conceptualizing feminist theory of practice and actual practice based on interviews with 12 feminist social workers. Findings reveal that the interviewees perceive feminist practice as significantly different from traditional social work practice based on four analytical prin…
Critical Social Work
This performance ethnography presents a multi-vocal dialog of a group of social workers and social work students dealing with personal and professional issues of critical social work. Performance ethnography is an innovative qualitative research method that uses a dramatic medium to bridge between theory and personal experiences and between research, teaching, and learning. Through personal writing and a discussion of an intervention story, we pr…
Poverty and the political
This article explores the relations between social work theory, research and practice in regard to poverty, arguing for the need to bring the political back into these three dimensions of the discipline/profession. Throughout the last decades, social work has been treating practice as a discrete technology, and left outside questions stemming from different theoretical approaches regarding the desired relationship between social workers and servi…
Bread of Shame
This article examines processes of othering in seven soup kitchens in Israel through participant observations as a staff-volunteer and as a diner. The empirical study of othering and otherness in relation to poverty is focused mainly on discourse analysis of texts that appeared in the media. This article contributes to this body of knowledge by analyzing the everyday routines, habits, norms, rules, and arrangements of space and time that turn the…
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