Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering Their Identities: Transformations in Dialogue

Maya Kahanoff

doi:10.5771/9781498504980

Summary

Jews and Arabs in Israel Encountering their Identities reveals the powerful potential of inter-group dialogues to transform identities and mutually negating relations. Using meetings with Israeli Jewish and Palestinian Arabian students who attend the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as case studies, Kahanoff examines the hidden psychological dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and illustrates how each participant’s sense of identity shifted in response to encounters with conflicting perspectives. Kahanoff contends that an awareness of the limitations of dialogue, without the renunciation of its value, is the most realistic basis upon which to build a sustainable agreement. This book is recommended for scholars of psychology, sociology, religious studies, political science, and communication studies.

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Edition: 1/2016
Copyright Year: 2016
ISBN-Print: 978-1-4985-0497-3
ISBN-Online: 978-1-4985-0498-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 257
Product Type: Monograph

1. Contents No access
2. 1. Preface to the English Edition No access
  2. Author’s Journey No access
  3. Note No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Historical, Social, and Political Backgrounds No access
2. Social and Psychological Dynamics of Protracted Conflicts No access
3. Intergroup Encounters—Contact, Confrontation, and Dialogue No access
4. Reconciliation and Identity Transformation No access
5. Research in Dialogue No access
6. Notes No access
1. 1. Harmony Versus Conflict No access
  2. The Personal/The Political No access
  3. Multiplicity/Absolute Truth No access
  4. Symmetry/Asymmetry No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
1. 1. Between Inclusion and Exclusion No access
  2. Between Individual and Group Identity No access
  3. Between Humanism and Security No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Between Monolithic and Multiple Identities No access
  2. Between Confrontation and Coexistence No access
  3. External versus Internal Violence No access
  4. Conclusion No access
  5. Notes No access
1. 1. Amid the Familiar and the Strange No access
  2. Amid Forgetting and Remembering No access
  3. Grappling with the Political No access
  4. Between Vulnerability and Aggression No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Amid Certainty and Doubt No access
  2. Amid Presence and Absendce No access
  3. Grappling with the Personal No access
  4. Distancing and Nearing No access
  5. Conclusion No access
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3. 1. Dialogue in Conflict No access
  2. Towards Transformation and Change No access
  3. Notes No access
1. Note No access
Bibliography No access Pages 239 - 252
Index No access Pages 253 - 256
About the Author No access Pages 257 - 257