1st Edition
Defiant Discourse Speech and Action in Grassroots Activism
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
Biography
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).
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
