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In this timely and innovative book, Tamar Katriel takes a language and discourse-centred approach to the subject of peace activism in Israel-Palestine, one of the most significant political issues of our time, while also posing more general questions about the role played by language in activist movements - how activists themselves conceptualize their speech and its relationship to action. Viewing activism as a globalized cultural formation that gives shape and meaning to grassroots organizations' struggles for political change, this book explores the relations between the cultural categories of speech and action as constructed and evaluated in activist contexts. It focuses on the specific empirical field of defiant discourse associated with the soldierly role in Israeli culture, using it to offer an in-depth exploration of the cultural underpinnings of defiant speech. Katriel interrogates discourse-centered activism as part of social movements' action repertoires on the one hand, and of the local cultural construction of speech cultures on the other. This is critical reading for all students and scholars studying activism and social movements within linguistics, Middle Eastern studies, peace studies, and communication studies.

Front Matter -- Front Cover -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table Of Contents -- Aknowledgments -- Contents -- Introduction -- Gibush: The Crystallization Metaphor in Israeli Cultural Semantics -- Kiturim: Griping as a Verbal Ritual In Israeli Discourse -- Rhetoric in Flames: Fire Inscriptions in Israeli Youth Movement Ceremonials -- Picnics in a Military Zone: Rituals of Parenting and the Politics of Consensus -- For Our Young Listeners": Rhetorics of Participation on Israeli Radio -- Brogez: Ritual and Strategy In Israeli Children's Conflicts -- ''Bel'}ibudim! '': Ritualized Sharing Among Israeli Children -- Hahlafot: Rules and Strategies in Israeli Children's Swapping Exchanges -- Sodot: Secret -Sharing as a Social Form AmongIsraeli Children -- By Way of Conclusion -- Back Matter -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.

A nostalgic interest in the past is a well-recognized feature of fast-changing, contemporary societies. It finds its expression in a variety of history-making practices of which the establishment of local heritage museums is a major manifestation in many parts of the world today. Katriel develops a communication-centered perspective on the study of heritage museums and -- by extension -- other tourist sites, highlighting the role of discourse in these institutionalized, yet vernacular contexts of cultural production, social legitimation, and identity formation. Descriptive and critical in or

Cultural Memories of Nonviolent Struggles: Powerful Times marks a new trajectory in Memory Studies by examining cultural memories of nonviolent struggles. The book highlights the cultural forgetting and memory of Gandhi's Salt March, the suffragette struggle in Britain, the Russell Tribunal, 'House Museums' in Europe, the anti-nuclear campaign at Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp, Poland's Solidarity movement, cultural repatriation and indigenous Australians, the Anti-War Museum in Berlin, a South Asian community archive, peaceful alternatives in video games and Palestinian activism against The Wall. The chapters explore how memories of nonviolent struggles are mobilized through digital archiving, documentary film-making, video-gaming, and on-the-ground practices such as music, memorial museums, and the building of monuments. By foregrounding an alternative line of memory work whose goal is to commemorate nonviolent struggles in contemporary local, national and global memory cultures, the book opens up new pathways of human hope and agency to the study of cultural memory.

Talking about the Holocaust has provided an international language for ethics, victimization, political claims, and constructions of collective identity. As part of a worldwide vocabulary, that language helps set the tenor of the era of globalization. This volume addresses manifestations of Holocaust-engendered global discourse by critically examining their function and inherent dilemmas, and the ways in which Holocaust-related matters still instigate public debate and academic deliberation. It contends that the contradiction between the totalizing logic of globalization and the assumed uniqueness of the Holocaust generates continued intellectual and practical discontent

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acronyms -- Preface -- Timeline of the Global Protests, 2010-13 -- 1. Introduction -- Part One: the Arab Spring Uprisings and their Aftermaths -- 2. Teargas, Flags and the Harlem Shake: Images of and for Revolution in Tunisia and the Dialectics of the Local in the Global -- 3. Singing the Revolt in Tahrir Square: Euphoria, Utopia and Revolution -- 4. 'I Dreamed of Being a People': Egypt's Revolution, the People and Critical Imagination -- 5. The Body of the Colonel: Caricature and Incarnation in the Libyan Revolution -- 6. Poetry of Protest: Tribes in Yemen's 'Change Revolution' -- Part Two: Beyond the Arab Spring - Asia and Africa -- 7. A Fractured Solidarity: Communitas and Structure in the Israeli 2011 Social Protest -- 8. Gandhi, Camera, Action! India's 'August Spring' -- 9. Short Circuits: The Aesthetics of Protest, Media and Martyrdom in Indian Anti-corruption Activism -- 10. 'The Mother of all Strikes': Popular Protest Culture and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism in the Botswana Public Service Unions' Strike, 2011 -- Part Three: Beyond the Arab Spring - American and European Protests -- 11. Vernacular Culture and Grassroots Activism: Non-violent Protest and Progressive Ethos at the 2011 Wisconsin Labour Rallies -- 12. Occupy Wall Street: Carnival Against Capital? Carnivalesque as Protest Sensibility -- 13. Subversion through Performance: Performance Activism in London -- 14. Spain's Indignados and the Mediated Aesthetics of Non-violence -- 15 The Poetics of Indignation in Greece: Anti-austerity Protest and Accountability -- About the Contributors -- Web Sources for Figures -- Index