1st Edition

Israeli Discourse and the West Bank Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement

By Elie Friedman, Dalia Gavriely-Nuri Copyright 2018
176 Pages
by Routledge

176 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

176 Pages 9 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

How can irregular political situations, which impact the lives of millions, become normalized? Specifically, within the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, how can 50 years of Israeli control over the Occupied Territories become accepted within Israeli society as a normal, possibly even banal phenomenon? Conversely, how can such a situation be estranged from daily reality, denied any... Read more

Introduction





1. Beyond 'Othering'. A Theoretical and Methodological Framework





2. Historical-Discursive Framework





3. Occupation Normalization and Estrangement in the Mainstream Media





4. Occupation Normalization and Estrangement in Social Media Discourse





5. West Bank Discourse and Public Diplomacy





6. Conclusions

Biography

Elie Friedman is currently a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, an adjunct lecturer at Hadassah Academic College and Bar-Ilan University, and project manager at the S. Daniel Abraham Center for Strategic Dialogue, Netanya Academic College. He has recently published in Critical Discourse Studies and International Journal of Communication.



Dalia Gavriely-Nuri is an Associate Professor at Hadassah Academic College and a research fellow at the Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace. Her last books: Israeli Peace Discourse (2015) (John Benjamins) and The Normalization of war in Israeli Discourse (2013) (Lexington Books).