Defiant Discourse

In this timely and innovative book, Tamar Katriel takes a language and discourse-centred approach to the subject of peace activism in Israel-Palestine. This is critical reading for all students and scholars studying activism and social movements within Linguistics, Middle Eastern studies, Peace studies and Communication studies.

In Defiant Discourse Katriel unpacks the complex relationship between speech and action in a case study of anti-war activists in Israel. Along the way she gives us an emotionally powerful textual ethnography, a mini-history of Israeli politics, and a theoretically engaging account of the ways speech is and is not action. Karen Tracy, University of Colorado, USA

Autorentext

Tamar Katriel is Professor (Emerita) at the University of Haifa, conducting research in the Ethnography of Communication. She is author of Talking Straight (1986); Communal Webs (1991); Performing the Past (1997); Dialogic Moments (2004), a collection of articles in Hebrew Milot Mafte'ach [Keywords] (1999), and a range of articles in journals and book collections. In recent years, her research has focused on grassroots activism and its commemoration, and she co-edited a collection of articles titled Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles (2015).

Inhalt

Acknowledgements

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: Contextualizing the study

Chapter 3: Proclaiming dissent

Chapter 4: Witnessing

Chapter 5: Accounting for dissent

Chapter 6: Conclusion

Index