Roni Strier
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 248069 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Roni Strier |
| NOMBRES | Roni |
| APELLIDO | Strier |
| FIRMA | STRIER R |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Haifa |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8245-8004 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 464 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 70 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1969 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 12 |
Time as privilege
This research examines how invisible, taken-for-granted temporal structures in higher education institutions intersect with socioeconomic status—a typically invisible source of disadvantage—to perpetuate inequality. This study examines the experiences of low-income students from a temporal perspective, based on interviews with 70 low-income students in Israeli universities and colleges. Our study reveals how temporal policies and practices shape …
Design my everyday life, my tomorrow, my future, on my own, without anyone helping me”
This article offers an interpretive examination of the future orientation of students in vocational schools as part of their vocational habitus. Through in-depth interviews with 30 adolescents (16 boys, 14 girls), the study identified three key future orientations: (1) the vague use of the term ‘success’ in the absence of an accompanying description of specific goals for achieving that success; (2) the future described through ‘hard individualism…
Daily Beauty
This article is a close reading of Leonardo Bruni’s panegyric for the city of Florence (1404). It expands the discussion of the Laudatio Florentinae Urbis beyond the political context in which it has mostly, through the influence of Hans Baron’s pioneering work, been considered. It reads the text as a powerful assertion of Renaissance Humanism in its most secular, world-affirming mode. In exploring the value structure of the text, it finds the di…
Lived experience of youth in vocational schools
Knowing poverty
Given the global and local social inequalities and the complex life circumstances of people living in poverty, social workers are called upon to broaden their knowledge with the purpose of developing social services that respond to the needs of this growing population. However, very little research has been done on the kind of knowledge that social workers require in order to care for this population. The present article focuses on the epistemolo…
Community practice as street-level bureaucracy
Social work research has increasingly focused on the role of social work in shaping policies on behalf of disadvantaged individuals, families, and communities. However, scarce research has examined the contribution of social work community practitioners to policy development and practice. This qualitative study addresses this gap in the literature, exploring public community practitioners’ discretion patterns within Israeli Jewish-Arab mixed citi…
Lone Motherhood, Poverty and the Meaning of Money
Lone-mother–headed families are key targets of poverty research and financial coaching training programs worldwide. Yet, despite the centrality of this population in poverty studies, there is little research on how this population construes the meaning of money in developed economies. This article focuses on the social construction of money among low-income lone mothers in Israel—a highly market-oriented, neoliberal economy. Based on a qualitativ…
Place-making
Since its very inception, the field of social work has acknowledged the importance of place in shaping communal identity, construing shared meanings and generating collective actions. Nevertheless, the analytical framework of place-making, which enjoys growing interest in other disciplines, has little impact on social work and its incorporation into social work community practice is still embryonic. The place-making perspective is particularly re…
Mama's boy? mother-son bond as a resource for masculinity construction
The vibrant field of research about masculinities has rarely discussed mother-son relationships outside the classical psychoanalytic prism of gender identity development. The paper addresses this void by exploring men’s accounts of their identities as men through the lens of their relationships with their mothers within a societal context that identifies masculinity with separation from the mother and denial of her feminine traits. This qualitati…
Families in Poverty and Noncitizenship
Recent scholarship on families living in poverty has focused on immigrant and migrant families, legal and illegal. The element of citizenship has received relatively broad attention, as legal status has profound influence on the individual's life chances. However, studies exploring relations between noncitizenship and poverty have not provided a comprehensive explanation of the mechanisms that deprive noncitizens of the possibility of accumulatin…
Social workers’ construction of cultural competence in polarized cities
Mixed cities are defined as ethnically diverse cities located within turbulent contexts of intensive, ongoing intergroup political conflict. As such, they may pose serious challenges to social workers’ efforts to develop culturally competent practices, especially in the public service sector. This article examined social workers’ constructions of cultural competence in the social public services delivered to Arab and Jewish clients in Israeli mix…
Intersectionality and fatherhood
Contemporary research on fatherhood describes fatherhood as a multifaceted, dynamic social, and cultural construction, deeply affected by class, race, and gender inequalities. However, critics claim that dominant theories on fatherhood have been mostly elaborated based on middle‐class, Anglo‐centered, dominant, and mainstream fatherhood, whereas non‐hegemonic, marginalized father groups have remained undertheorized. This article echoes this short…
Social Services in Ethnically Mixed Cities
There is a paucity of research examining street-level bureaucracy in cities affected by ongoing ethnopolitical conflict. This study addresses this limitation by exploring the work of social workers in the public services of mixed cities in Israel. It shows the interconnection between ambiguous institutional policies, varying workers’ views of the role of social services, and changing discretion patterns. Findings also suggest that episodes of con…
Identity as Discourse
This article presents a critical discussion of the legal institution of adult guardianship in Israel. Based on a critical discourse analysis’ study of official guardianship reports for older adults submitted by social workers to family courts in Israel, findings reveal how guardianship institutional procedures construct the personal life stories of older persons into legalistic guardianship paradigm, and in doing so they create a new identity of …
Blurring the Borders with Anzaldúa in Context-Informed, Anti-Oppressive Research
Studies show that context-blind, quasi-universalist professional discourses may engender oppressive social work practices with excluded populations. For example, research confirms that social work with children and families, overtly or covertly embedded in Eurocentric, binary discourse of risk and protection, has played a highly negative role in the history of social work with non-Western populations. Based on Gloria Anzaldúa’s theory of the bord…
From Social Investment to Investing in the Social
Social investment is a policy approach intended to promote the social inclusion of excluded individuals and groups, mainly through labour market participation and long-term human capital development. Since the 1980's this approach has spread from Europe worldwide and is now regarded as the latest shift from both 'traditional' welfare and the unrestrained neoliberal policy implemented under the austerity regime of the last decades. Most social inv…
Explaining the Factors Shaping the Likelihood of Poverty Among Working Families by Using a Concurrent Mixed Method Design
Moral Distress and Privatisation
This article discusses social workers’ moral distress associated with privatisation processes in neoliberal transitions. Based on a qualitative study of social workers (N = 15) working in privatised long-term nursing care agencies in Israel, findings revealed multiple expressions of moral distress. The study shows that moral distress relates to four main sources: illegal actions, violation of caregivers’ employment rights and benefits, clashes be…
Ethical Conflicts in Social Work Practice
Most of the moral distress in current literature stems from the health professions research whereas social work scholarship lags behind. This issue seeks to bridge this gap by exploring in a critic
The Faintest Stirring of Hope Became Possible’
“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.” The Plague, Albert Camus Many of the concerns laid out by the authors in our
Positioning Social Justice
This article explores the value of social justice as a shared ethical ground for social workers worldwide. Constructions and interpretations of social justice are deeply affected by different perspectives, contested positions and unequal power dynamics. As societies become ever more diversified, these may hinder the centrality of social justice as a core value. Drawing on data collected from participants in a binational interprofessional seminar …
Resisting Neoliberal Social Work Fragmentation
Worldwide neoliberal policies are transforming the landscape of social work. Studies have shown that these policies increased social workers' caseloads, regulated welfare expenditures, impaired public services' capabilities to attend to the needs of growing demand, transformed social services delivery by implanting new public management methods, and often also worsened working conditions and deteriorated the professional status of social workers.…
Transferring emotional capital as coerced discretion
The discretion of street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) plays a key role in policy implementation. This study offers a new perspective on the meaning of discretion under social policy reforms, which created new structural deficiencies in the work of SLBs and have raised expectations of policy implementation without offering sufficient policy responses. Under such conditions, the discretion of SLBs should be understood as coerced, more so than as a posi…
Social workers' emotional labour with families in poverty
This study examines the emotional labour of social workers serving families living in poverty. Based on in‐depth interviews and focus groups, the study concentrates on frontline social workers' emotions when faced with increasing levels of poverty, growing caseloads, and neoliberal social policies in Israel. Findings highlight 3 interrelated aspects of the emotional labour of social workers involved with impoverished families: (a) the emotional f…
Reengineering Social Work’s Political Passion
Studies show that social workers in many countries engage in policy practice at various levels and through diverse strategies. Recent scholarship has even offered some important conceptual frameworks for explaining policy practice. What is still missing is an informed analysis of the impact of the broad transformation social work has undergone in recent decades on the involvement of social workers in the policy arena. Drawing on secondary sources…
Power Relations in Qualitative Research
This article focuses on the tensions between the commitment to power redistribution of the qualitative paradigm and the ethical and methodological complexity inherent in clinical research. Qualitative inquiry, in general, though there are significant variations between its different paradigms and traditions, proposes to reduce power differences and encourages disclosure and authenticity between researchers and participants. It clearly departs fro…
Professional Resistance in Social Work
The goal of this article is to deepen understanding of the concept of professional resistance. Studies show that social workers in various parts of the world are increasingly confronted with regulations, programs, and policies that challenge their ability to carry out their professional mission in an ethical manner. Social workers may also find themselves under the pressure of periodic retrenchment resulting from budgetary constraints and subject…
Transferring emotional capital as coerced discretion
The discretion of street‐level bureaucrats (SLBs) plays a key role in policy implementation. This study offers a new perspective on the meaning of discretion under social policy reforms, which created new structural deficiencies in the work of SLBs and have raised expectations of policy implementation without offering sufficient policy responses. Under such conditions, the discretion of SLBs should be understood as coerced, more so than as a posi…
Social workers' emotional labour with families in poverty
This study examines the emotional labour of social workers serving families living in poverty. Based on in‐depth interviews and focus groups, the study concentrates on frontline social workers' emotions when faced with increasing levels of poverty, growing caseloads, and neoliberal social policies in Israel. Findings highlight 3 interrelated aspects of the emotional labour of social workers involved with impoverished families: (a) the emotional f…
Anti-Oppressive Research in Social Work
In comparison with other helping professions, social work claims to embrace a very distinctive mission: to oppose the roots and effects of social oppression. This article examines social work research from an anti-oppressive social work perspective. It argues that in order to match the liberating mission of the profession, social work research should defy the dominant traditions of social science research. The paper first outlines a definition of…
Introducing Anti-Oppressive Social Work Practices in Public Services
While anti-oppressive social work has become a central focus in theoretical social work discussions, the impact of its principles in the field is still marginal, especially in public social services. The few studies documenting the implementation of anti-oppressive practices in service organisations have typically focused on non-governmental agencies or grass-roots community organisations. The influence of anti-oppressive discourse on the public …
Resisting Neoliberal Social Work Fragmentation
Worldwide neoliberal policies are transforming the landscape of social work. Studies have shown that these policies increased social workers' caseloads, regulated welfare expenditures, impaired public services' capabilities to attend to the needs of growing demand, transformed social services delivery by implanting new public management methods, and often also worsened working conditions and deteriorated the professional status of social workers.…
Gendered Realities of Poverty
This study uses grounded theory to provide a bottom‐up analysis of poor people’s perceptions of their own poverty, focusing on gender differences across different cultural‐religious groups. Data come from interviews with low‐income Jewish men and women of diverse backgrounds in Jerusalem. This study confirms that gender stereotypes play significant roles in structuring the poor’s perceptions of their own poverty. Yet, the poor’s perceptions of th…
Unemployment and Fatherhood
Hegemonic representations of masculinity and dominant images of fatherhood have usually been linked to the domain of work. This article explores the experiences of men under the hardship of unemployment and the impact of these experiences on the construction of their gender identities, specifically on the construction of their fatherhood identity. In addition, the article examines how culture and national context affect the interrelationship betw…
Rethinking Cultural Competence
The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse ‘cultural competence’ as a theoretical construct and re-conceptualise it within the framework of Emanuel Levinas' theory of ‘Other’. Drawing on the work of the French philosopher (1905–95), this article discusses dominant mainstream conceptions of cultural competence through an examination of the complexity inherent in the intersection and relationship between the two value-laden concepts of ‘cul…
Fatherhood and immigration
Most immigration studies focus on the negative consequences of immigration for families and for parenting. Immigration is also viewed as a factor that undermines fathers’ capacity to implement their fathering roles. The impact of immigration on fathers has received very little attention. This paper is based on 54 interviews with immigrant fathers to Canada and Israel. Based on qualitative data, the paper investigates immigrant fathers’ perception…
Developing Anti-Oppressive Services for the Poor
The present article aims to encourage social services to adopt an anti-oppressive perspective in the development of services for people living in poverty, and proposes some theoretical and organisational considerations to transform these services. In the last three decades, neo-liberal and managerial ideologies have consistently favoured social policies that generate high levels of poverty, an anti-welfare political climate, punitive welfare refo…
Intersectionality and fatherhood
Contemporary research on fatherhood describes fatherhood as a multifaceted, dynamic social, and cultural construction, deeply affected by class, race, and gender inequalities. However, critics claim that dominant theories on fatherhood have been mostly elaborated based on middle‐class, Anglo‐centered, dominant, and mainstream fatherhood, whereas non‐hegemonic, marginalized father groups have remained undertheorized. This article echoes this short…
Reengineering Social Work’s Political Passion
Studies show that social workers in many countries engage in policy practice at various levels and through diverse strategies. Recent scholarship has even offered some important conceptual frameworks for explaining policy practice. What is still missing is an informed analysis of the impact of the broad transformation social work has undergone in recent decades on the involvement of social workers in the policy arena. Drawing on secondary sources…
Liquid advocacy
This article examines current inconsistent trends in social welfare advocacy literature. Some studies show evidence of widespread engagement in advocacy by nonprofit organisations, while other studies conversely offer evidence of limited advocacy activities. Another controversial aspect stems from the question whether governmental funding undermines the extent to which nonprofits engage in advocacy. We argue that these findings reflect the contra…
Working Poor Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Women and Men
The present article focuses on the interface between religion, work, and poverty as reflected in 20 in-depth qualitative interviews with ultra-Orthodox working-poor women and men in Israel. Based on a social constructivist theoretical framework, findings uncover the complex role of religion in the construction of the working poor. Religion demands a set of behaviors and belief systems that hinder the individual’s ability to break out of poverty, …
Responding to the Global Economic Crisis
The present global economic crisis raises new concerns for social workers. One of its most visible results is the further socioeconomic decline and marginalization of excluded populations. This article suggests that the current circumstances require a much more engaged, egalitarian, and reflexive practice-a practice, based on social rights, that matches the magnitude of the crisis and its negative impact on traditional social work constituencies.…
Women, Poverty, and the Microenterprise
The article discusses the claims of success of microenterprise development programmes (MDPs) in poverty reduction and gender equality. It also deals with the broader theoretical and methodological issues related to the ways in which context and discourse interact in the assessment of anti‐poverty and gender equity strategies. MDPs are considered among the most viable strategies for helping women overcome poverty and promoting gender equity. Howev…
The Faintest Stirring of Hope Became Possible’
“And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended.” The Plague, Albert Camus Many of the concerns laid out by the authors in our
Women’s Experiences of Micro-Enterprise
Moral Distress and Privatisation
This article discusses social workers’ moral distress associated with privatisation processes in neoliberal transitions. Based on a qualitative study of social workers (N = 15) working in privatised long-term nursing care agencies in Israel, findings revealed multiple expressions of moral distress. The study shows that moral distress relates to four main sources: illegal actions, violation of caregivers’ employment rights and benefits, clashes be…
Masculinity, Poverty and Work
This article explores the impact of poverty on working men in light of the great diversity of the working poor population. Grounded upon a social constructivist theoretical framework and a comparative qualitative study of the working poor in Israel, this article examines the construction of 'waged work' among low income, Israeli working men. To illuminate the complex intersection of masculinity, poverty and waged work with ethnic and cultural cat…
Community Anti-Poverty Strategies
Journal Article Community Anti-Poverty Strategies: A Conceptual Framework for a Critical Discussion Get access Roni Strier Roni Strier Correspondence to Roni Strier, School of Social Work, Faculty of Welfare Sciences and Health Studies, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 39, Issue 6, September 2009, Pag…
Class‐competent social work
The article seeks to present a theoretical framework for defining class‐competence in social work practice. Social work has made significant progress in enhancing practice competence with respect to contextual factors that transcend social class such as gender, culture, race and ethnicity. But this positive development in overcoming the rigid view, which framed class as the sole explanation of diversity, has obscured the current impact of social …
The Theatrical City
Secretary of Praise
The Poetics of Surrender
Herbert and Tears
Various attempts have been made to relate poetry of Herbert to literary and devotional practices of Counter-Reformation. The most influential of these is certainly that of Louis Martz in The Poetry of Meditation. Martz relates Herbert's poetry in general to devout humanism of St. Franqois de Sales and correlates specific poems with specific devotional practices: To all Angels and Saints with devotion to Virgin, especially encouraged by Jesuits; M…
Identity and Power in Tudor England
Stephen Greenblatt's Renaissance Self-Fashioning from More to Shakespeare (Chicago, 1980) is most provocative study of sixteenth-century English literature since C. S. Lewis's perverse and splendid volume in Oxford History (1954). Greenblatt's book both does and does not bear comparison with Lewis's, and his relation to his great forebear is not entirely a comfortable one. Greenblatt's is also most richly contextualized study of sixteenth-century…
Voice Terminal Echo
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Sanctifying the Aristocracy
Religion, Literature, and Politics in Post-Reformation England, 1540–1688
This collection of essays by historians and literary scholars treats English history and culture from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution as a single coherent period in which religion is a dominant element in political and cultural life. It seeks to explore the centrality of the religion-politics nexus for this whole period through examining a wide variety of literary and non-literary texts, from plays and poems to devotional tre…
The Theatrical City
Resistant Structures. Particularity, Radicalism, and Renaissance Texts
This is an exciting book in the tradition of criticism which has come to be expected from Richard Strierthat is, a forceful mode combining polemical energies with genuinely serious scholarship.In his previous writing, particularly on the poetry of George Herbert, he has made significant interventions into the critical debate, always eager to fight a corner (especially that of the Calvinist Herbert) but backing up his discursive blows with the sup…
Staging Reform, Reforming the Stage
Fatherhood and immigration
Most immigration studies focus on the negative consequences of immigration for families and for parenting. Immigration is also viewed as a factor that undermines fathers’ capacity to implement their fathering roles. The impact of immigration on fathers has received very little attention. This paper is based on 54 interviews with immigrant fathers to Canada and Israel. Based on qualitative data, the paper investigates immigrant fathers’ perception…
Gendered Realities of Poverty
This study uses grounded theory to provide a bottom‐up analysis of poor people’s perceptions of their own poverty, focusing on gender differences across different cultural‐religious groups. Data come from interviews with low‐income Jewish men and women of diverse backgrounds in Jerusalem. This study confirms that gender stereotypes play significant roles in structuring the poor’s perceptions of their own poverty. Yet, the poor’s perceptions of th…
Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne
Hugh Grady. Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. x + 286 pp. index. bibl. $65. ISBN: 0-19-925760-4. - Volume 58 Issue 1
Two Responses to 'Shakespeare and Embodiment
This article presents a brief skeptical response by Richard Strier and an extended reflection by Carla Mazzio on ‘Shakespeare and Embodiment: An E-Conversation’ (doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00180.x). The participants in this original online conversation included Mary Floyd-Wilson, Gail Kern Paster, Tanÿa Pollard, Katherine Rowe, and Julian Yates; Matthew Greenfield moderated. The participants assessed the current state of work on early modern b…
Anti-Oppressive Research in Social Work
In comparison with other helping professions, social work claims to embrace a very distinctive mission: to oppose the roots and effects of social oppression. This article examines social work research from an anti-oppressive social work perspective. It argues that in order to match the liberating mission of the profession, social work research should defy the dominant traditions of social science research. The paper first outlines a definition of…
Two Responses to ‘Shakespeare and Embodiment
This article presents a brief skeptical response by Richard Strier and an extended reflection by Carla Mazzio on ‘Shakespeare and Embodiment: An E‐Conversation’ (doi: 10.1111/j.1741‐4113.2006.00180.x). The participants in this original online conversation included Mary Floyd‐Wilson, Gail Kern Paster, Tanÿa Pollard, Katherine Rowe, and Julian Yates; Matthew Greenfield moderated. The participants assessed the current state of work on early modern b…
Martin Luther and the Real Presence in Nature
Not Drowning, Waiving
Class‐competent social work
The article seeks to present a theoretical framework for defining class‐competence in social work practice. Social work has made significant progress in enhancing practice competence with respect to contextual factors that transcend social class such as gender, culture, race and ethnicity. But this positive development in overcoming the rigid view, which framed class as the sole explanation of diversity, has obscured the current impact of social …
Neo-liberalism
English Neo-liberalism has become the pillar of post-industrial social thought. One of the critics of neo-liberalism refers to the discursive nature of its assumptions. This article examines the validity of these assumptions by means of an explo rative study that analyzed the views of families living in poverty in Jerusalem, Israel. French Le néo-libéralisme est devenu le pilier de la pensée post-industrielle. Une des critiques contre le néo-libé…
Women, Poverty, and the Microenterprise
The article discusses the claims of success of microenterprise development programmes (MDPs) in poverty reduction and gender equality. It also deals with the broader theoretical and methodological issues related to the ways in which context and discourse interact in the assessment of anti‐poverty and gender equity strategies. MDPs are considered among the most viable strategies for helping women overcome poverty and promoting gender equity. Howev…
Women’s Experiences of Micro-Enterprise
Community Anti-Poverty Strategies
Journal Article Community Anti-Poverty Strategies: A Conceptual Framework for a Critical Discussion Get access Roni Strier Roni Strier Correspondence to Roni Strier, School of Social Work, Faculty of Welfare Sciences and Health Studies, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel. Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Social Work, Volume 39, Issue 6, September 2009, Pag…
Power Relations in Qualitative Research
This article focuses on the tensions between the commitment to power redistribution of the qualitative paradigm and the ethical and methodological complexity inherent in clinical research. Qualitative inquiry, in general, though there are significant variations between its different paradigms and traditions, proposes to reduce power differences and encourages disclosure and authenticity between researchers and participants. It clearly departs fro…
Rethinking Cultural Competence
The purpose of this paper is to critically analyse ‘cultural competence’ as a theoretical construct and re-conceptualise it within the framework of Emanuel Levinas' theory of ‘Other’. Drawing on the work of the French philosopher (1905–95), this article discusses dominant mainstream conceptions of cultural competence through an examination of the complexity inherent in the intersection and relationship between the two value-laden concepts of ‘cul…
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