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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 orientation, this book combines a
close analysis of museum discourse with an exploration of such
larger issues as:
* the socio-cultural role of museums as arenas for the production
of collective memory,
* the ideological and performative constraints that shape museum
presentations,
* the interfacing of verbal and visual codes of communication in
the context of material displays,
* the dialectical interplay of the local and the global in
contemporary life, and
* the interpenetration of the personal and the communal in
vernacular processes of narrative production.
Of interest to scholars in communication, linguistics,
anthropology, history, museum studies, tourism, intercultural
communication, middle eastern studies, or those with interests in
narratives, material culture, and ethnography.
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 orientation, this book combines a
close analysis of museum discourse with an exploration of such
larger issues as:
* the socio-cultural role of museums as arenas for the production
of collective memory,
* the ideological and performative constraints that shape museum
presentations,
* the interfacing of verbal and visual codes of communication in
the context of material displays,
* the dialectical interplay of the local and the global in
contemporary life, and
* the interpenetration of the personal and the communal in
vernacular processes of narrative production.
Of interest to scholars in communication, linguistics,
anthropology, history, museum studies, tourism, intercultural
communication, middle eastern studies, or those with interests in
narratives, material culture, and ethnography.
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.
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.
The vision of communication as authentic dialogue, as the mutual
communion of souls, has animated many twentieth-century discussions
of language and communication. In its diverse manifestations, both
in scholarly writings and in various forms of vernacular culture,
this communicative utopia has identified dialogue, or conversation,
as a locus of authenticity of both individuals and groups. This
study traces the ways utopian visions of communication have played
themselves out in particular contexts of Israeli society through
the twentieth century, encapsulating central trends in the evolving
Israeli cultural conversation over the years.... In one sense, this
book is a historically situated study of the cultural fluctuations
of a given society in all its particularity. In another sense,
however, it seeks to offer a more general statement about the
culturally constructed nature of the quest for authenticity as a
project of modernity by focusing on conceptions of communication
and language as its quintessential loci. - From the introduction of
Dialogic Moments by Tamar Katriel
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