Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use
Readers seeking to understand the history and complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be unsatisfied after reading Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli & Palestinian Symbol Use. While the book appropriately traces each of the two sides' perspectives about th...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2009
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A journal of church and state
Year: 2009, Volume: 51, Issue: 1, Pages: 171-174 |
| Review of: | Shared land/ conflicting identity (East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2002) (Katz, Kimberly)
Shared Land/Conflicting Identity (East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, 2002) (Katz, Kimberly) |
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| Summary: | Readers seeking to understand the history and complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will be unsatisfied after reading Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli & Palestinian Symbol Use. While the book appropriately traces each of the two sides' perspectives about the conflict and the peace process, its analytical emphasis rests with the “symbol systems” that each side has employed since the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The theoretical focus on symbols and their role in defining self and other also shapes the authors' argument, which states that though the conflict focuses on land and water, were it not for the lack of continual development of the symbol systems to the changing situations, those problems (i.e. |
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| ISSN: | 2040-4867 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: A journal of church and state
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jcs/csp026 |