[Linganth] on the blog today -- Tamar Katriel

[Ilana Gershon]

Dear Colleagues,
Today Irit Dekel asks Tamar Katriel to discuss her new book, Defiant
Discourse: Speech and Action in Grassroot Activism.

https://campanthropology.org

Best,
Ilana

Press blurb: 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.
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