Experiencing the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Children, Peace Communication and Socialization
Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press (2021), xx, 473 pp.
Contains illustrations, bibliogr. pp. 416-447, index
ISBN 978-1-108-48572-2 (hbk); 978-1-108-62271-4 (ebook)
"In this study, Yael Warshel assesses Israeli and Palestinian versions of Sesame Street, which targeted negative inter-group attitudes and stereotypes. Merging communication, peace and conflict studies, social psychology, anthropology, political science, education, Middle Eastern and childhood studies, this book provides a template to think about how audiences receive, interpret, use and are influenced by peace communication. By picking apart the text and subtext of the kind of media these specific audiences of children consume, Warshel examines how they interpret peace communication interventions, are socialized into Palestinians, Jewish Israelis and Arab/Palestinian Israelis, the political opinions they express and the violence they reproduce. She questions whether peace communication practices have any relevant structural impact on their audiences, critiques such interventions and offers recommendations for improving future communication interventions into political conflict worldwide." (Publisher description)
Introduction: Peace Communication and Why Study Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street's Media Intervention Model? 1
I. THE ENCODING AND PRODUCTION OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN SESAME STREET
Introduction to Part I: Encoding and Production Methodologies, 65
1 The Israeli-Palestinian Ethno-political Nationalist Conflict, the Arab-Israeli Multistate Conflict and Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street's Disengagement with These Conflicts, 67
2 The Modern World, or Interstate, System, 82
3 The Encoding Process for Seasons One and Two of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street, 88
II. AUDIENCE RECEPTION OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN SESAME STREET
Introduction to Part II: Audience Reception Methodologies, 123
4 Decodings by Palestinians-in-the-Making, 151
5 Decodings by Jewish Israelis-in-the-Making, 178
6 Decodings by Arab/Palestinian Israelis-in-the-Making, 199
Conclusion to Part II: The Utility of the Series for All Three Partners to the Conflict? 209
III. SITUATING THE RECEPTION OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN SESAME STREET IN MUNDANE, INTRACTABLE CONFLICT ZONE PRACTICES
Introduction to Part III: Context Analyses and Conflict Zone Methodologies, 215
7 Pursuing Justice: Palestinian Children's Schematic Interpretations of the Israeli Army, 227
8 Pursuing Security: Jewish Israeli Children's Schematic Interpretations of Palestinian Day Laborers, 265
9 Pursuing Equality: Arab/Palestinian Israeli Children's Schematic Interpretations of Constructs of Opposing National and Civic Identities, 304
IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE PEACE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, (EVIDENCE-BASED) PRACTICE AND CONFLICT INTRACTABILITY INTERPRETATION
Introduction to Part IV: The Best Case, 337
10 Lessons Learned and Their Application to Peace Communication Research, (Evidence-Based) Practice and Conflict Intractability Interpretation, 339
11 How to Improve Potential Media Effects and Impacts: Recommendations for Peace Communication Practitioners, 364
12 Follow-Up Study of Tween-Age Former Audience Members, 404
I. THE ENCODING AND PRODUCTION OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN SESAME STREET
Introduction to Part I: Encoding and Production Methodologies, 65
1 The Israeli-Palestinian Ethno-political Nationalist Conflict, the Arab-Israeli Multistate Conflict and Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street's Disengagement with These Conflicts, 67
2 The Modern World, or Interstate, System, 82
3 The Encoding Process for Seasons One and Two of Israeli and Palestinian Sesame Street, 88
II. AUDIENCE RECEPTION OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN SESAME STREET
Introduction to Part II: Audience Reception Methodologies, 123
4 Decodings by Palestinians-in-the-Making, 151
5 Decodings by Jewish Israelis-in-the-Making, 178
6 Decodings by Arab/Palestinian Israelis-in-the-Making, 199
Conclusion to Part II: The Utility of the Series for All Three Partners to the Conflict? 209
III. SITUATING THE RECEPTION OF ISRAELI AND PALESTINIAN SESAME STREET IN MUNDANE, INTRACTABLE CONFLICT ZONE PRACTICES
Introduction to Part III: Context Analyses and Conflict Zone Methodologies, 215
7 Pursuing Justice: Palestinian Children's Schematic Interpretations of the Israeli Army, 227
8 Pursuing Security: Jewish Israeli Children's Schematic Interpretations of Palestinian Day Laborers, 265
9 Pursuing Equality: Arab/Palestinian Israeli Children's Schematic Interpretations of Constructs of Opposing National and Civic Identities, 304
IV. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS TO IMPROVE PEACE COMMUNICATION RESEARCH, (EVIDENCE-BASED) PRACTICE AND CONFLICT INTRACTABILITY INTERPRETATION
Introduction to Part IV: The Best Case, 337
10 Lessons Learned and Their Application to Peace Communication Research, (Evidence-Based) Practice and Conflict Intractability Interpretation, 339
11 How to Improve Potential Media Effects and Impacts: Recommendations for Peace Communication Practitioners, 364
12 Follow-Up Study of Tween-Age Former Audience Members, 404
