Navigating war, dissent and empathy in Arab/U.S. relations : seeing our others in darkened spaces / Osman Latiff.
2021
DS63.2.U5 L28 2021eb
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Navigating war, dissent and empathy in Arab/U.S. relations : seeing our others in darkened spaces / Osman Latiff.
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ISBN
9783030767471 (electronic bk.)
3030767477 (electronic bk.)
3030767469
9783030767464
3030767477 (electronic bk.)
3030767469
9783030767464
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Cham : Springer, 2021.
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©2021
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English
Description
1 online resource (xv, 160 pages)
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10.1007/978-3-030-76747-1 doi
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DS63.2.U5 L28 2021eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
327.730174927
Summary
This book focuses on American political discourse connected to war, dissent, and empathy. Through interdisciplinary methods of history, politics and media studies, the book examines ways in which American self-identity alters as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering and of its existential others. It compares representations of the Iraq wars to earlier precedents and looks at the work of American activists, assessing how narratives and images of human suffering in new media iconography generate empathic attitudes towards others. This comparative, multimodal study helps to explain shifting self-identities within the U.S, and relationally through the representation of the Arab other presenting an original and historicised contribution to the media-war field of academic and public debate. The book underscores empathy as a vibrant category of analysis that expands how we think about West-Arab relations, revealing how understanding the cultural aspects of this conflictual interrelationship needs to be broadened.
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Table of Contents
Part I Empathy and the Finding of Empathic Spaces
Empathy and the Search for the Other
Landscaping 'Otherness and Challenging Frames of "Nothingness" in Contemporary Palestine'
Distance as Othering: US Images of Conflict Inside and Outside the Homeland
Part II The War in Iraq and the Empathic Spaces of Elsewhere
The Mahmudiyah Killings and the Framing of Abeer
Empathy Behind and Beyond the Cage
Performance and Pathos: Symbolism of Suffering in the Mourning of Iraqi 'Mothers'.
Empathy and the Search for the Other
Landscaping 'Otherness and Challenging Frames of "Nothingness" in Contemporary Palestine'
Distance as Othering: US Images of Conflict Inside and Outside the Homeland
Part II The War in Iraq and the Empathic Spaces of Elsewhere
The Mahmudiyah Killings and the Framing of Abeer
Empathy Behind and Beyond the Cage
Performance and Pathos: Symbolism of Suffering in the Mourning of Iraqi 'Mothers'.