Guy Feldman
Biographic Data
| ID | 4238725 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Guy Feldman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Guy |
| FAMILY NAME | Feldman |
| SIGNATURE | FELDMAN G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tel Aviv University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2784-927X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 63 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The meaning of home among disadvantaged renting families
In recent years, amid a global affordable housing crisis, there has been growing scholarly and political interest in the problem of housing insecurity among poor families. Although housing is one of the key forms of disadvantage affecting those who engage with social services, the profession of social work has given only scant attention to this pressing issue. Guided by theories of home as an ongoing political process, this study advances the und…
Beyond the letter of the law”
We conclude by offering a structural explanation for social workers' reliance on discourses that depoliticize the idea and practice of securing people's social rights. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Between Institutional Loneliness and Visibility
In recent years, as countries worldwide have experienced an affordable housing crisis, housing insecurity among poor families has drawn increasing and diverse scholarly attention. In contrast to other disciplines, social work scholarship has given only scant attention to housing problems. Connecting scholarship on housing insecurity and social work with people living in poverty, this study explores how low‐income renting families experience vario…
Negotiating housing insecurity
Take Me Home
Guided by scholarship on housing insecurity and the survival strategies of poor families, this study examines how impoverished families navigate and assess appropriate responses to housing insecurity in the private rental market. Drawing on interviews with 100 low-income families across Israel, the study finds that families construct rental housing as a chief source of subjugation, instability, and emotional distress. Poor families often draw on …
Securing citizens’ social rights under neoliberal welfare governance
While scholars have examined how neoliberal ideas and policies manifest at the front lines of the welfare state, far less is known about how the neoliberal approach prevalent in such states shapes decisions that senior state actors make about social welfare policy. The current study advances the literature by examining the processes and motivations behind the decision to withdraw from enacting a law designed to secure the social rights of all Isr…
You Have the Right to Remain Silent
In recent years, a vast and sprawling body of literature has shown that academic institutions have adopted market principles and practices. Scholars have commonly called these processes “the neoliberalization of higher education’ or ‘academic capitalism’. Yet, studies have given less attention to the neoliberalisation of higher education from the bottom-up, reflecting the views of faculty. The discipline of social work, which represents social va…
No matter what, I will not give up”
The COVID-19 pandemic has required frontline health care workers to cope with an unexpected and almost unprecedented emergency situation. Community social workers had played a crucial role during the pandemic, working to alleviate its adverse effects on marginalized communities. The present study investigated community social workers' experiences and hardships in coping with the "age of COVID-19." Drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 frontline …
Let's talk about our feelings
From the earliest days of the Covid‐19 pandemic, which disproportionately affected marginalised communities around the world, community practice had assumed a critical role on the front lines of the social services' response to the pandemic. While scholars have devoted growing attention to community practice in normal and crisis times, little is known about the emotions of community practitioners and how they deal with them in order to do their j…
Disruptive Social Work
In recent years, a growing literature has rediscovered radical social work and the various forms it takes. In these debates, a key concept that has been developed and deployed is ‘resistance’. Studies provide growing evidence for the myriad ways in which social workers engage in resistance activities as part of their everyday practice. However, most of these studies portray resistance as an individualised activity and overlook the role of clients…
Governmental and Non-Governmental Community Practice—What’s the Difference
The social work profession emphasises the importance of social workers’ involvement in community practice, which aims to promote social policy and social change via peoples’ organising and acting. The current qualitative study compares between the perceptions and everyday experiences of governmental and non-governmental community social workers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-six community social workers in the public social services …
Merging micro and macro practice
Social work and the state
The state has been central to social work throughout the profession's history. Despite its theoretical and political significance, the mainstream of the social work field has long disregarded the state as an object of inquiry. The scant attention given to the state within social work is especially puzzling given a resurgence of interest in the state within the social sciences over the past few decades. To redress this imbalance, this article expl…
Beautiful stranger
Over the past few decades, economic, political and cultural forces have altered the development of social policies and affected the life circumstances of oppressed communities in many countries. In response, calls for greater understanding and awareness of macro practice skills and interventions have been increasing within many of the social care professions. These calls have been particularly strong within the social work profession. A major fie…
Making the Connection Between Theories of Policy Change and Policy Practice
Over the past few decades, powerful economic, political and cultural forces have restructured the welfare state and social work practice. In response, there have been calls in recent years for the re-politicisation of the social work profession. One of the main ways in which social work has been re-politicised is through the emphasis on social workers’ involvement in the policy arena, commonly referred to as ‘policy practice’ in the literature. A…
Entrepreneurs of Themselves
Welfare policy discourse plays an important role in shaping how marginalised groups are identified and how poverty is addressed. Research on welfare policy discourse has mostly adopted a top-down perspective, examining how marginalised groups are constituted through interrelated discourses that are produced and enacted by powerful actors. However, little attention has been given to understanding how welfare policy discourse is used and enacted by…
Saving from poverty
The much-heralded anti-poverty strategy of asset-building has been adopted by many countries across the world. Asset-building programmes are designed to help low-income families achieve long-term financial stability through savings and asset accumulation. This article offers a comprehensive and critical review of the current state of theory and research on asset-building programmes, with an emphasis on Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) in th…
Contradictory Logics in Asset‐building Discourse
Asset‐building as an anti‐poverty policy emphasizes helping the poor to save and accumulate wealth so as to promote future financial well‐being. This article focuses on how asset‐building discourse is practiced at the frontlines and its implications for how workers come to address issues of poverty. Drawing on qualitative data from a case study of a matched savings programme in the USA, the study finds that asset‐building discourse as enacted by …
Towards a Relational Approach to Poverty in Social Work
Poverty and the poor have been central to social work throughout the profession’s history. Much of the discussion in social work conceptualises poverty as a category that people are assigned to or a condition that they endure. In recent years, there has been a growing interest across the social sciences in a relational approach to poverty, which focuses on the social, economic and political relationships that produce and sustain poverty across cl…
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…
The Performative Magic of Advocacy Organisations
Advocacy organisations play a significant role in promoting social justice. These organisations aim to generate and redistribute economic, social and political capital on behalf of marginalised populations. Scholarship on advocacy organisations has mostly focused on their efforts to increase these forms of capital through social action, agenda-setting strategies, research on social problems, media deployment and policy monitoring. As yet, this va…
Individual and Collective Dimensions of Resilience Within Political Violence
Research has documented a link between political violence and the functioning of individuals and communities. Yet, despite the hardships that political violence creates, evidence suggests remarkable fortitude and resilience within both individuals and communities. Individual characteristics that appear to build resilience against political violence include demographic factors such as gender and age, and internal resources, such as hope, optimism,…
The Construction of Social Class in Social Work Education
Social work introductory textbooks reflect myriad practical interests, pedagogical concerns, and theoretical considerations. However, they also present students with accepted views, dominant perspectives, and main discourses of knowledge. In light of this centrality, the present article examines the representation of the concept of "social class" in introductory textbooks as a way to look at the construction of the concept in social work educatio…
Spirit of Rebellion
This is an intriguing book that is worth the attention of scholars interested in agrarian life and labor, religion, and reform alternatives that have been lost before the relentless onslaught of the “natural” workings of market economics. Spirit of Rebellion is a well-written, imaginative reworking of Jarod Roll's dissertation on agrarian social and economic protests in the bootheel lowlands of southeast Missouri in the first half of the twentiet…
Disruptive Social Work
In recent years, a growing literature has rediscovered radical social work and the various forms it takes. In these debates, a key concept that has been developed and deployed is ‘resistance’. Studies provide growing evidence for the myriad ways in which social workers engage in resistance activities as part of their everyday practice. However, most of these studies portray resistance as an individualised activity and overlook the role of clients…
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…
Making the Connection Between Theories of Policy Change and Policy Practice
Over the past few decades, powerful economic, political and cultural forces have restructured the welfare state and social work practice. In response, there have been calls in recent years for the re-politicisation of the social work profession. One of the main ways in which social work has been re-politicised is through the emphasis on social workers’ involvement in the policy arena, commonly referred to as ‘policy practice’ in the literature. A…
Entrepreneurs of Themselves
Welfare policy discourse plays an important role in shaping how marginalised groups are identified and how poverty is addressed. Research on welfare policy discourse has mostly adopted a top-down perspective, examining how marginalised groups are constituted through interrelated discourses that are produced and enacted by powerful actors. However, little attention has been given to understanding how welfare policy discourse is used and enacted by…
Governmental and Non-Governmental Community Practice—What’s the Difference
The social work profession emphasises the importance of social workers’ involvement in community practice, which aims to promote social policy and social change via peoples’ organising and acting. The current qualitative study compares between the perceptions and everyday experiences of governmental and non-governmental community social workers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-six community social workers in the public social services …
Beautiful stranger
Over the past few decades, economic, political and cultural forces have altered the development of social policies and affected the life circumstances of oppressed communities in many countries. In response, calls for greater understanding and awareness of macro practice skills and interventions have been increasing within many of the social care professions. These calls have been particularly strong within the social work profession. A major fie…
The Construction of Social Class in Social Work Education
Social work introductory textbooks reflect myriad practical interests, pedagogical concerns, and theoretical considerations. However, they also present students with accepted views, dominant perspectives, and main discourses of knowledge. In light of this centrality, the present article examines the representation of the concept of "social class" in introductory textbooks as a way to look at the construction of the concept in social work educatio…
You Have the Right to Remain Silent
In recent years, a vast and sprawling body of literature has shown that academic institutions have adopted market principles and practices. Scholars have commonly called these processes “the neoliberalization of higher education’ or ‘academic capitalism’. Yet, studies have given less attention to the neoliberalisation of higher education from the bottom-up, reflecting the views of faculty. The discipline of social work, which represents social va…
Social work and the state
The state has been central to social work throughout the profession's history. Despite its theoretical and political significance, the mainstream of the social work field has long disregarded the state as an object of inquiry. The scant attention given to the state within social work is especially puzzling given a resurgence of interest in the state within the social sciences over the past few decades. To redress this imbalance, this article expl…
Contradictory Logics in Asset‐building Discourse
Asset‐building as an anti‐poverty policy emphasizes helping the poor to save and accumulate wealth so as to promote future financial well‐being. This article focuses on how asset‐building discourse is practiced at the frontlines and its implications for how workers come to address issues of poverty. Drawing on qualitative data from a case study of a matched savings programme in the USA, the study finds that asset‐building discourse as enacted by …
Spirit of Rebellion
This is an intriguing book that is worth the attention of scholars interested in agrarian life and labor, religion, and reform alternatives that have been lost before the relentless onslaught of the “natural” workings of market economics. Spirit of Rebellion is a well-written, imaginative reworking of Jarod Roll's dissertation on agrarian social and economic protests in the bootheel lowlands of southeast Missouri in the first half of the twentiet…
Between Institutional Loneliness and Visibility
In recent years, as countries worldwide have experienced an affordable housing crisis, housing insecurity among poor families has drawn increasing and diverse scholarly attention. In contrast to other disciplines, social work scholarship has given only scant attention to housing problems. Connecting scholarship on housing insecurity and social work with people living in poverty, this study explores how low‐income renting families experience vario…
Take Me Home
Guided by scholarship on housing insecurity and the survival strategies of poor families, this study examines how impoverished families navigate and assess appropriate responses to housing insecurity in the private rental market. Drawing on interviews with 100 low-income families across Israel, the study finds that families construct rental housing as a chief source of subjugation, instability, and emotional distress. Poor families often draw on …
Let's talk about our feelings
From the earliest days of the Covid‐19 pandemic, which disproportionately affected marginalised communities around the world, community practice had assumed a critical role on the front lines of the social services' response to the pandemic. While scholars have devoted growing attention to community practice in normal and crisis times, little is known about the emotions of community practitioners and how they deal with them in order to do their j…
Merging micro and macro practice
The Performative Magic of Advocacy Organisations
Advocacy organisations play a significant role in promoting social justice. These organisations aim to generate and redistribute economic, social and political capital on behalf of marginalised populations. Scholarship on advocacy organisations has mostly focused on their efforts to increase these forms of capital through social action, agenda-setting strategies, research on social problems, media deployment and policy monitoring. As yet, this va…
Spirit of Rebellion
This is an intriguing book that is worth the attention of scholars interested in agrarian life and labor, religion, and reform alternatives that have been lost before the relentless onslaught of the “natural” workings of market economics. Spirit of Rebellion is a well-written, imaginative reworking of Jarod Roll's dissertation on agrarian social and economic protests in the bootheel lowlands of southeast Missouri in the first half of the twentiet…
The Construction of Social Class in Social Work Education
Social work introductory textbooks reflect myriad practical interests, pedagogical concerns, and theoretical considerations. However, they also present students with accepted views, dominant perspectives, and main discourses of knowledge. In light of this centrality, the present article examines the representation of the concept of "social class" in introductory textbooks as a way to look at the construction of the concept in social work educatio…
Individual and Collective Dimensions of Resilience Within Political Violence
Research has documented a link between political violence and the functioning of individuals and communities. Yet, despite the hardships that political violence creates, evidence suggests remarkable fortitude and resilience within both individuals and communities. Individual characteristics that appear to build resilience against political violence include demographic factors such as gender and age, and internal resources, such as hope, optimism,…
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…
The Performative Magic of Advocacy Organisations
Advocacy organisations play a significant role in promoting social justice. These organisations aim to generate and redistribute economic, social and political capital on behalf of marginalised populations. Scholarship on advocacy organisations has mostly focused on their efforts to increase these forms of capital through social action, agenda-setting strategies, research on social problems, media deployment and policy monitoring. As yet, this va…
Saving from poverty
The much-heralded anti-poverty strategy of asset-building has been adopted by many countries across the world. Asset-building programmes are designed to help low-income families achieve long-term financial stability through savings and asset accumulation. This article offers a comprehensive and critical review of the current state of theory and research on asset-building programmes, with an emphasis on Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) in th…
Contradictory Logics in Asset‐building Discourse
Asset‐building as an anti‐poverty policy emphasizes helping the poor to save and accumulate wealth so as to promote future financial well‐being. This article focuses on how asset‐building discourse is practiced at the frontlines and its implications for how workers come to address issues of poverty. Drawing on qualitative data from a case study of a matched savings programme in the USA, the study finds that asset‐building discourse as enacted by …
Towards a Relational Approach to Poverty in Social Work
Poverty and the poor have been central to social work throughout the profession’s history. Much of the discussion in social work conceptualises poverty as a category that people are assigned to or a condition that they endure. In recent years, there has been a growing interest across the social sciences in a relational approach to poverty, which focuses on the social, economic and political relationships that produce and sustain poverty across cl…
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…
Entrepreneurs of Themselves
Welfare policy discourse plays an important role in shaping how marginalised groups are identified and how poverty is addressed. Research on welfare policy discourse has mostly adopted a top-down perspective, examining how marginalised groups are constituted through interrelated discourses that are produced and enacted by powerful actors. However, little attention has been given to understanding how welfare policy discourse is used and enacted by…
Beautiful stranger
Over the past few decades, economic, political and cultural forces have altered the development of social policies and affected the life circumstances of oppressed communities in many countries. In response, calls for greater understanding and awareness of macro practice skills and interventions have been increasing within many of the social care professions. These calls have been particularly strong within the social work profession. A major fie…
Making the Connection Between Theories of Policy Change and Policy Practice
Over the past few decades, powerful economic, political and cultural forces have restructured the welfare state and social work practice. In response, there have been calls in recent years for the re-politicisation of the social work profession. One of the main ways in which social work has been re-politicised is through the emphasis on social workers’ involvement in the policy arena, commonly referred to as ‘policy practice’ in the literature. A…
Merging micro and macro practice
Social work and the state
The state has been central to social work throughout the profession's history. Despite its theoretical and political significance, the mainstream of the social work field has long disregarded the state as an object of inquiry. The scant attention given to the state within social work is especially puzzling given a resurgence of interest in the state within the social sciences over the past few decades. To redress this imbalance, this article expl…
Let's talk about our feelings
From the earliest days of the Covid‐19 pandemic, which disproportionately affected marginalised communities around the world, community practice had assumed a critical role on the front lines of the social services' response to the pandemic. While scholars have devoted growing attention to community practice in normal and crisis times, little is known about the emotions of community practitioners and how they deal with them in order to do their j…
Disruptive Social Work
In recent years, a growing literature has rediscovered radical social work and the various forms it takes. In these debates, a key concept that has been developed and deployed is ‘resistance’. Studies provide growing evidence for the myriad ways in which social workers engage in resistance activities as part of their everyday practice. However, most of these studies portray resistance as an individualised activity and overlook the role of clients…
Governmental and Non-Governmental Community Practice—What’s the Difference
The social work profession emphasises the importance of social workers’ involvement in community practice, which aims to promote social policy and social change via peoples’ organising and acting. The current qualitative study compares between the perceptions and everyday experiences of governmental and non-governmental community social workers. Drawing on in-depth interviews with twenty-six community social workers in the public social services …
Securing citizens’ social rights under neoliberal welfare governance
While scholars have examined how neoliberal ideas and policies manifest at the front lines of the welfare state, far less is known about how the neoliberal approach prevalent in such states shapes decisions that senior state actors make about social welfare policy. The current study advances the literature by examining the processes and motivations behind the decision to withdraw from enacting a law designed to secure the social rights of all Isr…
You Have the Right to Remain Silent
In recent years, a vast and sprawling body of literature has shown that academic institutions have adopted market principles and practices. Scholars have commonly called these processes “the neoliberalization of higher education’ or ‘academic capitalism’. Yet, studies have given less attention to the neoliberalisation of higher education from the bottom-up, reflecting the views of faculty. The discipline of social work, which represents social va…
No matter what, I will not give up”
The COVID-19 pandemic has required frontline health care workers to cope with an unexpected and almost unprecedented emergency situation. Community social workers had played a crucial role during the pandemic, working to alleviate its adverse effects on marginalized communities. The present study investigated community social workers' experiences and hardships in coping with the "age of COVID-19." Drawing on in-depth interviews with 30 frontline …
Negotiating housing insecurity
Take Me Home
Guided by scholarship on housing insecurity and the survival strategies of poor families, this study examines how impoverished families navigate and assess appropriate responses to housing insecurity in the private rental market. Drawing on interviews with 100 low-income families across Israel, the study finds that families construct rental housing as a chief source of subjugation, instability, and emotional distress. Poor families often draw on …
Beyond the letter of the law”
We conclude by offering a structural explanation for social workers' reliance on discourses that depoliticize the idea and practice of securing people's social rights. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2025 APA, all rights reserved)
Between Institutional Loneliness and Visibility
In recent years, as countries worldwide have experienced an affordable housing crisis, housing insecurity among poor families has drawn increasing and diverse scholarly attention. In contrast to other disciplines, social work scholarship has given only scant attention to housing problems. Connecting scholarship on housing insecurity and social work with people living in poverty, this study explores how low‐income renting families experience vario…
The meaning of home among disadvantaged renting families
In recent years, amid a global affordable housing crisis, there has been growing scholarly and political interest in the problem of housing insecurity among poor families. Although housing is one of the key forms of disadvantage affecting those who engage with social services, the profession of social work has given only scant attention to this pressing issue. Guided by theories of home as an ongoing political process, this study advances the und…
Sociology (23 works) · Political science (20 works) · Psychology (14 works) · Social Work Education and Practice (14 works) · Homelessness and Social Issues (13 works) · Law (13 works) · Politics (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Social Work (11 works) · Social science (10 works)