1st Edition

Analysing the Israel Effect in Canada A Critical AutoEthnography

By Peter Eglin Copyright 2024
246 Pages 22 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 22 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

246 Pages 22 Color & 6 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

What is the life of a Palestinian worth to intellectuals in Canadian universities and news media? Analyzing the Israel Effect documents and analyzes the discursive and organizational methods by which public criticism of Israel’s oppression of the Palestinians is silenced in Canada, as experienced through ten episodes in the life of the author over a thirty-year period from 1990-2020 in... Read more

List of Figures

Preface

Acknowledgements

Some Important Dates

Introduction: The Problem

PART ONE: THE NEWS MEDIA

Foreword: Yves Engler

Chapter 1: Photo Propaganda

Chapter 2: A Deluge of Flak

Chapter 3: Anatomy of Monstrousness

Chapter 4: Concision Before Vision

Chapter 5: Circling the Wagons

Chapter 6: Head Banging

PART TWO: THE UNIVERSITY

Foreword: Professor Omar Ramahi

Chapter 7: A Threat to Public Safety

Chapter 8: The Holocaust Card

Chapter 9: Nefarious Harassment

Chapter 10: Politically Pornographic Pictures

Chapter 11: The Fall of the University

Conclusion: Resistance

Notes

References

Biography

Peter Eglin is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Wilfrid Laurier University in Canada. He has been Humboldt Research Fellow at the Universität Konstanz and Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Wolfson College, Oxford. As a visiting professor he has taught at the University of Toronto, Northumbria University and Bangor University. His work has been translated into French, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. He has contributed chapters to the Handbook of Sociology and Human Rights (2013), the Routledge Handbook of Language and Culture (2015) and The Global Citizenship Nexus: Critical Studies (2020) that he also co-edited. He wrote extensively with Stephen Hester, including the monograph The Montreal Massacre (2003) and the textbook A Sociology of Crime (second edition, 2017).