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Israeli Discourse and the West Bank - Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement (Paperback)
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Israeli Discourse and the West Bank - Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Discourse Studies Series
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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 relation to who "we" are? This volume explores
these questions through the lens of two central discourses that
dominate the Israeli debate regarding the future of the Occupied
Territories: 1) Occupation Normalization Discourse, which portrays
Israeli control of the territories as a "normal" part of life; 2)
Occupation Estrangement Discourse, which portrays this situation as
distant from Israeli reality. In addressing these discourses, the
authors develop a new methodological tool, Dialectic Discourse
Analysis, which examines discourse as a process of perpetual
positing and synthesis of oppositions through the discursive
construction, differentiation and mediation of self and other.
Through this approach, the authors illustrate that these discourses
are dialectically constituted in opposition to one another, feeding
off one another, each enabling the other to exist. This dynamic has
resulted in a fixed discourse, preventing any progress towards a
synthesis of oppositions.
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