From sbennett at amu.edu.pl Tue Apr 7 07:16:48 2026 From: sbennett at amu.edu.pl (Samuel Bennett) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2026 07:16:48 +0000 Subject: [Cadaad] Books and news from around the CADAAD network Message-ID: Dear colleagues, Below you can find details of recent books from around the CADAAD network. As always, if you?d like to share details of your own publications and activity, please send an email to sbennett at amu.edu.pl. News/updates on any of the following can be included: * monographs, * edited volumes, * special issues of journals, * project calls, * conferences, * guest lectures at your institution ----------------- Analyzing the Israel Effect in Canada: A Critical Autoethnography Peter Eglin What is the life of a Palestinian worth to intellectuals in Canadian universities and news media? Analyzing the Israel Effect documents and analyzes the discursive and organizational methods by which public criticism of Israel?s oppression of the Palestinians is silenced in Canada, as experienced through ten episodes in the life of the author over a thirty-year period from 1990-2020 in interaction with his university and local and national Canadian news media. As a sociological work the book is a critical autoethnography. But it is also an atrocity tale, a horror story of institutional self-censorship amounting to the abrogation of intellectual responsibility by those specifically charged with upholding it. In the end, the book is a crossover between academic treatise and journalistic expos?, ?a historical narrative written by an academic from the standpoint of a political participant-observer? (Rajan Philips). The Israel Effect itself is analyzed as a three-tier propaganda industry. Hasbara is produced in Israel (Tier 1), disseminated to Israel Lobby groups around the world (Tier 2) and independently re-produced, actively and passively, by the ?intellectual? institutions ? universities and news media (Tier 3). This book is about the non-Jewish, non-Zionist institutions of Tier 3, the onlookers to war crimes, ethnic cleansing and, arguably, genocide, as in Gaza in October-November 2023. https://www.routledge.com/Analysing-the-Israel-Effect-in-Canada-A-Critical-AutoEthnography/Eglin/p/book/9781032707952 ----------------- Words of Influence: Strategies in Contemporary Arabic Political Speeches Kurstin Gatt & Kristina Stock This book examines the language used in contemporary political speeches in the Arab world. The book focuses on how Arab political leaders use linguistic and rhetorical strategies to present political positions, construct collective identities, and address audiences in different political contexts. The study is based on a corpus of speeches delivered by figures such as Nouri al-Maliki, Bashar al-Assad, and Hassan Nasrallah, and considers how these speeches draw on both modern political language and longer Arabic rhetorical traditions. The analysis pays particular attention to the use of cultural references, historical narratives, and religious language in political communication. Political speeches in Arabic often refer to shared cultural memory, collective experiences, and widely recognised symbolic expressions. These references can play an important role in shaping the relationship between political leaders and their audiences. The book examines how speakers position themselves within broader narratives of national belonging, political struggle, and social solidarity. The volume also addresses questions related to language and power in political discourse. By examining speeches produced in different political settings, the book considers how linguistic choices can function as tools for persuasion, authority, and political positioning. The analysis looks at the role of rhetoric in presenting political legitimacy, framing conflicts, and constructing group identities. Bringing together perspectives from discourse analysis, political linguistics, and Arabic studies, Words of Influence contributes to the study of Arabic political communication and may be of interest to researchers working in Critical Discourse Analysis, Middle Eastern studies, rhetoric, and political communication. https://www.um.edu.mt/mup/store/product/words-of-influence-strategies-in-contemporary-arabic-political-speeches/? ----------------- Unlearning Languages that Control the Mind Vladan Sutanovac (ed.) The edited collection Unlearning Languages That Control the Mind (ULCM) is to be read as a continuous multivoiced work on what takes place when we forget that unlearning is a part of our existence as much as learning. As the world as we know it finds itself at a critical juncture yet again, how we talk about the continuously amassing genocidal invasions and authoritarian occupations of our minds, thoughts, bodies and environments will affect how we experience, process and counter them on a daytoday basis. Based on this, ULCM offers its readers a singular interdisciplinary blueprint of the inner and outer workings of motivated language use when in service of mind engineering and engineered acting. As such, it is a valuable enabling resource for anyone looking to identify and unlearn the languages that mask belief traps and cognitive distortions set up by various antisocial actors to keep our daytoday cognition and acting confined to society as engineered laboratory. With its interdisciplinary breadth and engaging multimodal content, this handbook breaks new grounds in actionable application of science as accessible communityenabling tool for seeing through, i.e. dismantling belief traps and mental distortions that turn language use into mindbody abuse. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003393399/unlearning-languages-control-mind-vladan-sutanovac ----------------- The Routledge Handbook of Translating and Interpreting Conflict Marija Todorova and Lucia Ruiz Rosendo (eds.) The Routledge Handbook of Translating and Interpreting Conflict offers a comprehensive exploration of the roles translators and interpreters play in conflict settings. Spanning diverse geographical regions and historical periods, this volume examines how language professionals contribute to military operations, humanitarian aid, peacebuilding, and asylum processes. The Handbook addresses pressing issues such as the recruitment and protection of interpreters, ethical dilemmas, emotional and psychological challenges, and the evolving use of technology in conflict zones. It also includes emerging topics such as the role of women interpreters, the translation of peace agreements, and the impact of environmental conflicts. Drawing on a wide range of case studies?from the medieval Iberian peninsula to the ongoing conflict in Ukraine?the book blends historical insights with contemporary examples, offering a truly global perspective. Methodologically diverse chapters range from archival research and ethnographic studies to interviews, memoir and documentary film analyses, and micro-histories of individual interpreters. This volume is an essential resource for researchers, practitioners, students, and anyone interested in understanding how language shapes and responds to the complexities of conflict. It highlights the critical yet often overlooked contributions of translators and interpreters in some of the world?s most challenging situations. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003355847/routledge-handbook-translating-interpreting-conflict-marija-todorova-luc%C3%ADa-ruiz-rosendo?refId=afa806d3-0c66-478f-bbe4-7131968b57b8&context=ubx Kind regards, Sam ----- Dr Samuel Bennett Assistant Professor Faculty of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan Chair CADAAD Executive Commitee Co-Editor Journal of Language & Politics ORCiD: 0000-0003-3610-5261 BlueSky: @samtbennett.bsky.social -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: