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This study explores the ramifications of local economic differences on entering adulthood in the context of globalization. The effect of globalization on patterns of entering adulthood is usually perceived as filtered by particularities at the national level and as differentiated mainly by class. However, economic differentiation within the same co...
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... The reasons for this are diverse and beyond the scope of this paper; in general terms, we cite here the significant discrimination against these localities in the allocation of budgets, the statutory non-assignment of commercial property that would yield municipal property taxes, and the unwillingness of the state to prepare master plans and planning for Arab localities, which hinders the physical growth and the housing plans (Meir-Brodnitz, 2012). As a result of all these, no urban residential environments have developed, nor have suburbs, which are a characteristic of the Israeli middle class (Birenbaum-Carmeli, 2000;Shani & Bar-Haim, 2020) spread up around the cities and localities. Even within the localities, there has not been any geographical separation based on class status; therefore, in the same neighborhood, we can find huge villas that have been constructed by private builders alongside the houses of the poor (Almog, 2010). ...
Arab-Palestinian citizens are one of the most marginalized social groups in Israel. It is, therefore not surprising that a vast proportion of the sociological literature pertaining to this group focuses on mechanisms of oppression and/or alternative forms of political resistance. While undeniably important, this narrow focus has been blind to one of the most fundamental changes in Arab-Palestinian society: the steady emergence of an Arab-Palestinian middle class.
The paper addresses this blind spot in the research literature. We present the previously untold story of this structural change by describing the historical processes and socio-political mechanisms that have led to this development. We focus on specific periods of time and show that in each period, the Arab middle class developed primarily by seizing opportunities paradoxically created by policies that were meant to marginalize Arab-Palestinians, identifying prospects unlocked by the free market, and pursuing higher education. We then present descriptive results indicating the rise of the Arab middle-class in the last three decades.
In contrast to the pessimistic and often deterministic view of the conditions of Arab-Palestinian citizens of Israel, this article, which required the authors to free themselves of the limits imposed by critical sociology, paints a picture of agency and change. Theoretical and political implications are discussed.
... Outlining intergenerational consequences of incarceration of parents on children's life course transitions in the U.S. (Turney & Lanuza, 2017). Focusing on how, economic differentiation at the regional and municipal level affects young Israelis life course transitions differently (Shani & Bar-Haim, 2020 ...
Children’s Geographies actively engages with critical understandings of age‐based research. However, the concept of age is an uncritical entity in these studies fueled by western concepts of childhood. Demarcating age numerically runs the risk of measuring childhoods in the Majority Worlds with Minority World concepts that are not culturally sensitive, but also forecloses any innovations. Researchers often spend so long debating definitions and boundaries when it is often in the grey areas of scholarship and life that the most exciting events and outcomes occur. This review begins with navigating ‘grey areas of age’ from how it is often measured in spaces of conceptual ambiguity with regards to experiences of being in between formal definitions of childhood or ‘Children’s Geographies.’ This is elaborated upon from Eurocentric linages that have shaped the subfield of Children’s Geographies, and in which the subfield should continue shifting from to further decolonize Eurocentric research related to age and childhood. The paper ends by presenting ways of further advancing the subfield of Children’s Geographies through (inter)generational positioning concepts and new interdisciplinary life course studies that further nuances the social variable of age as a grey area in the subfield.
ספרות המחקר מתארת לעיתים תכופות את הפער בין עמדתם הכללית החיובית של בני המעמד הבינוני כלפי מגוון חברתי ובין יחסם והתנהגותם המדירה כלפי אחרים חברתיים בשכונותיהם. המתח הזה והמנגנונים החברתיים והמרחביים המעצבים אותו עומדים במרכזו של מאמר זה. המאמר נשען על מחקר השוואתי הבוחן את בחירות הדיור של בני המעמד הבינוני בתל אביב ובבאר שבע, המבוסס על ראיונות עם 60 משקי בית ועל עיבוד גאוגרפי של נתוני מפקד האוכלוסין. טענתי היא כי יחסם של בני המעמד הבינוני למגוון חברתי משקף את המתח בין תרבות מעמדית הצהרתית, המתבטאת בעמדותיהם העקרוניות, ובין תרבות מעמדית מופנמת ומגופנת, המתבטאת בתחושת נוחות באזור המגורים. כך, באופן פרדוקסלי, היכולת לחוש נוחות מעמדית באזור מגוון תלויה בהפעלת אסטרטגיות סגרגטיביות במרחב, וחוסר היכולת לנקוט אסטרטגיות אלו תורם ליחס שלילי למגוון ואף לשאיפה למגורים בקהילות מגודרות.
