Navigating War, Dissent and Empathy in Arab/U.S Relations
Seeing Our Others in Darkened Spaces
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Beschreibung
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.Presents unique case studies, examining media and political representations of distant suffering.
Focuses on empathy across cultural lines associated with conflict, misunderstanding or domination
Offers a new perspective on American self-identity altered as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering
Presents unique case studies, examining media and political representations of distant suffering Focuses on empathy across cultural lines associated with conflict, misunderstanding or domination Offers a new perspective on American self-identity altered as a consequence of media portrayal of human suffering
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Osman Latiff
Themen in »Navigating War, Dissent and Empathy in Arab/U.S Relations«
American Political Discourse and War History of American Self-Identity War and Suffering Human Suffering in New Media Iconography Empathy and Challenges of Humanism US Images of Conflict Search for Empathy in War Media Framing Syncretic Modes in Imagined Mourning Syncretism