G Hartal
Biographic Data
| ID | 29830 |
|---|---|
| NAME | G Hartal |
| GIVEN NAMES | G |
| FAMILY NAME | Hartal |
| SIGNATURE | HARTAL G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Bar-Ilan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5084-5680 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 101 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Beyond the curriculum: Negotiating power and knowledge in informal trans health educational initiatives
The transgender community faces significant barriers in healthcare due to inadequate medical education and systemic discrimination, resulting in persistent health disparities and limited access to competent care. This study examines how informal educational initiatives, defined here as grassroots activities that operate outside formal medical curricula, serve as alternative strategies for addressing trans health knowledge gaps in medical educatio…
‘We feel like we’re making a significant impact’: Teachers’ subjective task value in sex and sexuality education
Sexuality education is necessary for promoting healthy sexual relationships. Accordingly, it is being integrated into school curricula in many countries. Teachers and educators are expected to teach sexuality education in their classrooms, but often face personal, social, professional, and organisational difficulties. Several programmes have been developed to mitigate these challenges, but their success is limited. In this paper, we utilise situa…
Healthcare professionals’ advocacy strategies for trans-inclusive primary care: A qualitative analysis
The trans community faces significant barriers in healthcare due to inadequate medical education and systemic discrimination. Healthcare providers often lack training to address trans individuals’ health needs, with advocacy playing a key role in overcoming these gaps. This research explored how healthcare providers employ an advocacy-centred approach when delivering care to their trans patients, using Israel’s primary care system as a case study…
We Have to Be Allies to the Allies: Social Activists' Emotional Labor in Interactions With Allies
Extensive research has examined how social movements use emotions to mobilize participants and sustain commitment among beneficiaries of the movement, those who belong to the marginalized groups the movement serves. Less is known about the emotional means through which social movements mobilize and retain allies, who are insiders who actively work to achieve the movement's goals yet are also members of dominant society who benefit from the very s…
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies
This study explored how activists frame their lived experience in the context of a social movement that uses suffering as a key frame, and the implications of this framing for their relationships with allies. Suffering can garner support for marginalized groups, yet the resulting allyship can be patronizing. In an interview study of 41 trans social movement activists, we found that they resist the simplicity of the suffering frame and the 'vulner…
Resilience and Vulnerability: Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Women Managing LGBTphobia in Rural Israel
Neoliberal discourses associate resilience with active stances and independence. Conceptualizing the relationship between vulnerability and resilience, this paper discusses lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women’s experiences of LGBTphobia in Israeli rural space. Addressing the 67th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) challenge to describe intersectional issues, this paper reveals alternative negotiations of LBT women’s vulnerabilitie…
Homonormativity in Peripheral Spaces: LBT Women's Processes of Becoming Political Subjects
Homonormativity refers to the ratification and endorsement of heteronormative institutions and structures into lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lives, culture and discourse. While homonormativity is commonly manifested in (relatively) privileged, White, able‐bodied gay men, this paper focuses on lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) women's experiences in Israeli peripheral and rural spaces. As a concept, homonormativity has the po…
Resilient queer subjects: Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women on the Israeli periphery
Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women encounter LGBTphobia in rural spaces. • LGBTphobic encounters render the subjectivity of LBT women political. • Discursive mechanisms are used to reduce the significance of LGBTphobia. • Resilient political subjectivity emerges out of LBT women’s vulnerability. • LBT women’s resilience cast doubt on the vulnerability-empowerment binary. In recent years, LGBT subjectivities have been depicted as stron…
We have knowledge that is unique: Patient activism and the promotion of trans-inclusive primary care
Liberal LGBTphobia in rural spaces: Israeli lesbian and bisexual women's relationality
Failing Homonationalism? Gay Israeli Eurovision Geeks Negotiating Nationalism and Masculinity
In 2019, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was hosted in Tel Aviv. Like other national contests such as the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup, the ESC is a political event. For gay Israeli men who are ESC fans, this was an opportunity to become more integrated in the gay and national communities through homonormativity and homonational processes. However, as this case study shows, Israeli gay men ESC fans mostly rejected homonational masculinity in …
Oriented sexual subjectivity: Lesbian, bisexual and transgender women’s sexual subjectivity in Israeli rural space and periphery
How do lesbian and bisexual, cisgender and transgender (LBT) women talk about sex? This paper looks at constructions of sexual discourse and the production of sexual subjectivity from the perspective of LBT women in the Israeli periphery, asking how they construct their lives as sexual subjects. Applying Sara Ahmed’s ‘orientations’ concept, we argue that the periphery serves as an LGBTphobic context that impacts sexual discourses and constructs L…
Touring and obscuring: How Sensual, Embodied and Haptic Gay Touristic Practices Construct the Geopolitics of Pinkwashing
Gay tourism is commonly studied through pride events in cities. Rethinking the role gay men's bodies and politics play in the context of tourism to Israeli heritage sites, this paper contributes to debates on geopolitics and geographies of sexualities and the embodied approach to tourism. Analyzing daytrips through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I argue that sensual, embodied and haptic practices, which are immanent to gay men's travel cul…
Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics: A lesson from social movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Growing attention has been devoted to the political geography of urban social movements but trauma, its urban context and spatial politics, have been significantly neglected. This paper aims to develop the concept of ‘queer urban trauma’ and its aftermath in the sense of urban and spatial activism, through an analysis of two traumatic events for the LGBT community in Israel. It explains how traumatic events taking place within urban contexts affe…
The progressive Orient: Gay tourism to Tel Aviv and Israeli ethnicities
Tel Aviv is becoming a hotspot for gay tourism through the support of municipal and national forces. The city is marketed as a Middle Eastern gay utopia, drawing tourists due to its location, LGBT nightlife, and Oriental flavor. Meanwhile, local Israeli LGBT individuals strive to produce themselves as Western, both performatively and politically. This paper discusses how the Tel Aviv Municipality, the state, commercial actors, and LGBT individual…
Gay tourism to Tel-Aviv: Producing urban value
Over the past decade, a growing number of critiques have been levelled at institutional LGBT initiatives in Tel-Aviv, characterising them as homonational and pinkwashing. Gay tourism to Tel-Aviv is one of the central initiatives under attack. Supported by national ministries and by local organisations, Tel-Aviv became a popular destination for a ‘gay vacation’. This paper explores the dynamic formation of the political economy of gay tourism to T…
Re-Reading Homonationalism: An Israeli Spatial Perspective
In this article we stress the need for specifically located understandings of the concept of homonationalism, by introducing an analysis of spatial and political power relations dissecting disparate constructions of LGBT arenas. The article explores three spaces: Tel-Aviv-an urban space of LGBT belonging; Jerusalem-the Israeli capital where being an LGBT individual is problematic both in public and in private spaces; and Kiryat-Shmona-a conservat…
Being [in] the center: Sexual citizenship and homonationalism at Tel Aviv’s Gay-Center
Tel Aviv’s Gay-Center is unique in Israel for being sponsored, managed and controlled by the municipality. This article focuses on the Gay-Center as a material, symbolic and discursive space in order to clarify the relationship between LGBT individuals and the nation. Based on an ethnographic study, we show that since its establishment the Gay-Center has undergone centralization processes as a result of being located in central Tel Aviv and by st…
Fragile subjectivities: Constructing Queer Safe Spaces
This paper uses framing theory to challenge previous understandings of queer safe space, their construction, and fundamental logics. Safe space is usually apprehended as a protected and inclusive place, where one can express one's identity freely and comfortably. Focusing on the Jerusalem Open House, a community center for LGBT individuals in Jerusalem, I investigate the spatial politics of safe space. Introducing the contested space of Jerusalem…
The politics of holding: Home and LGBT visibility in contested Jerusalem
This article explores LGBT politics of space in Jerusalem, a contested and fractured city. By interpreting the challenges and contradictions inherent in the Jerusalem Open House (JOH), a social movement and community space in Jerusalem, the article will show how the discourse and the practice of the JOH lead to a politics of holding. This LGBT spatial politics consists of striving to include oppositional politics, emphasizing the consolidation of…
Re-Reading Homonationalism: An Israeli Spatial Perspective
In this article we stress the need for specifically located understandings of the concept of homonationalism, by introducing an analysis of spatial and political power relations dissecting disparate constructions of LGBT arenas. The article explores three spaces: Tel-Aviv-an urban space of LGBT belonging; Jerusalem-the Israeli capital where being an LGBT individual is problematic both in public and in private spaces; and Kiryat-Shmona-a conservat…
Fragile subjectivities: Constructing Queer Safe Spaces
This paper uses framing theory to challenge previous understandings of queer safe space, their construction, and fundamental logics. Safe space is usually apprehended as a protected and inclusive place, where one can express one's identity freely and comfortably. Focusing on the Jerusalem Open House, a community center for LGBT individuals in Jerusalem, I investigate the spatial politics of safe space. Introducing the contested space of Jerusalem…
Gay tourism to Tel-Aviv: Producing urban value
Over the past decade, a growing number of critiques have been levelled at institutional LGBT initiatives in Tel-Aviv, characterising them as homonational and pinkwashing. Gay tourism to Tel-Aviv is one of the central initiatives under attack. Supported by national ministries and by local organisations, Tel-Aviv became a popular destination for a ‘gay vacation’. This paper explores the dynamic formation of the political economy of gay tourism to T…
Touring and obscuring: How Sensual, Embodied and Haptic Gay Touristic Practices Construct the Geopolitics of Pinkwashing
Gay tourism is commonly studied through pride events in cities. Rethinking the role gay men's bodies and politics play in the context of tourism to Israeli heritage sites, this paper contributes to debates on geopolitics and geographies of sexualities and the embodied approach to tourism. Analyzing daytrips through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I argue that sensual, embodied and haptic practices, which are immanent to gay men's travel cul…
Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics: A lesson from social movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Growing attention has been devoted to the political geography of urban social movements but trauma, its urban context and spatial politics, have been significantly neglected. This paper aims to develop the concept of ‘queer urban trauma’ and its aftermath in the sense of urban and spatial activism, through an analysis of two traumatic events for the LGBT community in Israel. It explains how traumatic events taking place within urban contexts affe…
The progressive Orient: Gay tourism to Tel Aviv and Israeli ethnicities
Tel Aviv is becoming a hotspot for gay tourism through the support of municipal and national forces. The city is marketed as a Middle Eastern gay utopia, drawing tourists due to its location, LGBT nightlife, and Oriental flavor. Meanwhile, local Israeli LGBT individuals strive to produce themselves as Western, both performatively and politically. This paper discusses how the Tel Aviv Municipality, the state, commercial actors, and LGBT individual…
The politics of holding: Home and LGBT visibility in contested Jerusalem
This article explores LGBT politics of space in Jerusalem, a contested and fractured city. By interpreting the challenges and contradictions inherent in the Jerusalem Open House (JOH), a social movement and community space in Jerusalem, the article will show how the discourse and the practice of the JOH lead to a politics of holding. This LGBT spatial politics consists of striving to include oppositional politics, emphasizing the consolidation of…
We have knowledge that is unique: Patient activism and the promotion of trans-inclusive primary care
Oriented sexual subjectivity: Lesbian, bisexual and transgender women’s sexual subjectivity in Israeli rural space and periphery
How do lesbian and bisexual, cisgender and transgender (LBT) women talk about sex? This paper looks at constructions of sexual discourse and the production of sexual subjectivity from the perspective of LBT women in the Israeli periphery, asking how they construct their lives as sexual subjects. Applying Sara Ahmed’s ‘orientations’ concept, we argue that the periphery serves as an LGBTphobic context that impacts sexual discourses and constructs L…
Resilience and Vulnerability: Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Women Managing LGBTphobia in Rural Israel
Neoliberal discourses associate resilience with active stances and independence. Conceptualizing the relationship between vulnerability and resilience, this paper discusses lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women’s experiences of LGBTphobia in Israeli rural space. Addressing the 67th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) challenge to describe intersectional issues, this paper reveals alternative negotiations of LBT women’s vulnerabilitie…
Resilient queer subjects: Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women on the Israeli periphery
Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women encounter LGBTphobia in rural spaces. • LGBTphobic encounters render the subjectivity of LBT women political. • Discursive mechanisms are used to reduce the significance of LGBTphobia. • Resilient political subjectivity emerges out of LBT women’s vulnerability. • LBT women’s resilience cast doubt on the vulnerability-empowerment binary. In recent years, LGBT subjectivities have been depicted as stron…
Liberal LGBTphobia in rural spaces: Israeli lesbian and bisexual women's relationality
Failing Homonationalism? Gay Israeli Eurovision Geeks Negotiating Nationalism and Masculinity
In 2019, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was hosted in Tel Aviv. Like other national contests such as the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup, the ESC is a political event. For gay Israeli men who are ESC fans, this was an opportunity to become more integrated in the gay and national communities through homonormativity and homonational processes. However, as this case study shows, Israeli gay men ESC fans mostly rejected homonational masculinity in …
The politics of holding: Home and LGBT visibility in contested Jerusalem
This article explores LGBT politics of space in Jerusalem, a contested and fractured city. By interpreting the challenges and contradictions inherent in the Jerusalem Open House (JOH), a social movement and community space in Jerusalem, the article will show how the discourse and the practice of the JOH lead to a politics of holding. This LGBT spatial politics consists of striving to include oppositional politics, emphasizing the consolidation of…
Being [in] the center: Sexual citizenship and homonationalism at Tel Aviv’s Gay-Center
Tel Aviv’s Gay-Center is unique in Israel for being sponsored, managed and controlled by the municipality. This article focuses on the Gay-Center as a material, symbolic and discursive space in order to clarify the relationship between LGBT individuals and the nation. Based on an ethnographic study, we show that since its establishment the Gay-Center has undergone centralization processes as a result of being located in central Tel Aviv and by st…
Fragile subjectivities: Constructing Queer Safe Spaces
This paper uses framing theory to challenge previous understandings of queer safe space, their construction, and fundamental logics. Safe space is usually apprehended as a protected and inclusive place, where one can express one's identity freely and comfortably. Focusing on the Jerusalem Open House, a community center for LGBT individuals in Jerusalem, I investigate the spatial politics of safe space. Introducing the contested space of Jerusalem…
Re-Reading Homonationalism: An Israeli Spatial Perspective
In this article we stress the need for specifically located understandings of the concept of homonationalism, by introducing an analysis of spatial and political power relations dissecting disparate constructions of LGBT arenas. The article explores three spaces: Tel-Aviv-an urban space of LGBT belonging; Jerusalem-the Israeli capital where being an LGBT individual is problematic both in public and in private spaces; and Kiryat-Shmona-a conservat…
The progressive Orient: Gay tourism to Tel Aviv and Israeli ethnicities
Tel Aviv is becoming a hotspot for gay tourism through the support of municipal and national forces. The city is marketed as a Middle Eastern gay utopia, drawing tourists due to its location, LGBT nightlife, and Oriental flavor. Meanwhile, local Israeli LGBT individuals strive to produce themselves as Western, both performatively and politically. This paper discusses how the Tel Aviv Municipality, the state, commercial actors, and LGBT individual…
Gay tourism to Tel-Aviv: Producing urban value
Over the past decade, a growing number of critiques have been levelled at institutional LGBT initiatives in Tel-Aviv, characterising them as homonational and pinkwashing. Gay tourism to Tel-Aviv is one of the central initiatives under attack. Supported by national ministries and by local organisations, Tel-Aviv became a popular destination for a ‘gay vacation’. This paper explores the dynamic formation of the political economy of gay tourism to T…
Queer urban trauma and its spatial politics: A lesson from social movements in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem
Growing attention has been devoted to the political geography of urban social movements but trauma, its urban context and spatial politics, have been significantly neglected. This paper aims to develop the concept of ‘queer urban trauma’ and its aftermath in the sense of urban and spatial activism, through an analysis of two traumatic events for the LGBT community in Israel. It explains how traumatic events taking place within urban contexts affe…
Oriented sexual subjectivity: Lesbian, bisexual and transgender women’s sexual subjectivity in Israeli rural space and periphery
How do lesbian and bisexual, cisgender and transgender (LBT) women talk about sex? This paper looks at constructions of sexual discourse and the production of sexual subjectivity from the perspective of LBT women in the Israeli periphery, asking how they construct their lives as sexual subjects. Applying Sara Ahmed’s ‘orientations’ concept, we argue that the periphery serves as an LGBTphobic context that impacts sexual discourses and constructs L…
Touring and obscuring: How Sensual, Embodied and Haptic Gay Touristic Practices Construct the Geopolitics of Pinkwashing
Gay tourism is commonly studied through pride events in cities. Rethinking the role gay men's bodies and politics play in the context of tourism to Israeli heritage sites, this paper contributes to debates on geopolitics and geographies of sexualities and the embodied approach to tourism. Analyzing daytrips through the Occupied Palestinian Territories, I argue that sensual, embodied and haptic practices, which are immanent to gay men's travel cul…
Liberal LGBTphobia in rural spaces: Israeli lesbian and bisexual women's relationality
Failing Homonationalism? Gay Israeli Eurovision Geeks Negotiating Nationalism and Masculinity
In 2019, the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) was hosted in Tel Aviv. Like other national contests such as the Olympics or the FIFA World Cup, the ESC is a political event. For gay Israeli men who are ESC fans, this was an opportunity to become more integrated in the gay and national communities through homonormativity and homonational processes. However, as this case study shows, Israeli gay men ESC fans mostly rejected homonational masculinity in …
Resilience and Vulnerability: Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Women Managing LGBTphobia in Rural Israel
Neoliberal discourses associate resilience with active stances and independence. Conceptualizing the relationship between vulnerability and resilience, this paper discusses lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women’s experiences of LGBTphobia in Israeli rural space. Addressing the 67th Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) challenge to describe intersectional issues, this paper reveals alternative negotiations of LBT women’s vulnerabilitie…
Homonormativity in Peripheral Spaces: LBT Women's Processes of Becoming Political Subjects
Homonormativity refers to the ratification and endorsement of heteronormative institutions and structures into lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) lives, culture and discourse. While homonormativity is commonly manifested in (relatively) privileged, White, able‐bodied gay men, this paper focuses on lesbian, bisexual and transgender (LBT) women's experiences in Israeli peripheral and rural spaces. As a concept, homonormativity has the po…
Resilient queer subjects: Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender women on the Israeli periphery
Lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (LBT) women encounter LGBTphobia in rural spaces. • LGBTphobic encounters render the subjectivity of LBT women political. • Discursive mechanisms are used to reduce the significance of LGBTphobia. • Resilient political subjectivity emerges out of LBT women’s vulnerability. • LBT women’s resilience cast doubt on the vulnerability-empowerment binary. In recent years, LGBT subjectivities have been depicted as stron…
We have knowledge that is unique: Patient activism and the promotion of trans-inclusive primary care
Healthcare professionals’ advocacy strategies for trans-inclusive primary care: A qualitative analysis
The trans community faces significant barriers in healthcare due to inadequate medical education and systemic discrimination. Healthcare providers often lack training to address trans individuals’ health needs, with advocacy playing a key role in overcoming these gaps. This research explored how healthcare providers employ an advocacy-centred approach when delivering care to their trans patients, using Israel’s primary care system as a case study…
We Have to Be Allies to the Allies: Social Activists' Emotional Labor in Interactions With Allies
Extensive research has examined how social movements use emotions to mobilize participants and sustain commitment among beneficiaries of the movement, those who belong to the marginalized groups the movement serves. Less is known about the emotional means through which social movements mobilize and retain allies, who are insiders who actively work to achieve the movement's goals yet are also members of dominant society who benefit from the very s…
A Vitapolitics Frame: How Trans Activists Make Sense of Trans Lives in Interactions with Allies
This study explored how activists frame their lived experience in the context of a social movement that uses suffering as a key frame, and the implications of this framing for their relationships with allies. Suffering can garner support for marginalized groups, yet the resulting allyship can be patronizing. In an interview study of 41 trans social movement activists, we found that they resist the simplicity of the suffering frame and the 'vulner…
Beyond the curriculum: Negotiating power and knowledge in informal trans health educational initiatives
The transgender community faces significant barriers in healthcare due to inadequate medical education and systemic discrimination, resulting in persistent health disparities and limited access to competent care. This study examines how informal educational initiatives, defined here as grassroots activities that operate outside formal medical curricula, serve as alternative strategies for addressing trans health knowledge gaps in medical educatio…
‘We feel like we’re making a significant impact’: Teachers’ subjective task value in sex and sexuality education
Sexuality education is necessary for promoting healthy sexual relationships. Accordingly, it is being integrated into school curricula in many countries. Teachers and educators are expected to teach sexuality education in their classrooms, but often face personal, social, professional, and organisational difficulties. Several programmes have been developed to mitigate these challenges, but their success is limited. In this paper, we utilise situa…
Sociology (17 works) · LGBTQ Health, Identity, and Policy (16 works) · Gender Studies (15 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (14 works) · Gender Studies (13 works) · Political science (12 works) · Law (10 works) · Politics (10 works) · Law (9 works) · Queer (9 works)