Social Movements, Subjectivity, and Solidarity: Witnessing Rhetoric of the International Solidarity Movement Metadata

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Title

  • Main Title Social Movements, Subjectivity, and Solidarity: Witnessing Rhetoric of the International Solidarity Movement

Creator

  • Author: Wachsmann, Emily Brook
    Creator Type: Personal

Contributor

  • Chair: Lain, Brian A.
    Contributor Type: Personal
    Contributor Info: Major Professor
  • Committee Member: Treat, Shaun R.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Anderson, Karen A.
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Shabout, Nada
    Contributor Type: Personal
  • Committee Member: Cruz, Alicia Re
    Contributor Type: Personal

Publisher

  • Name: University of North Texas
    Place of Publication: Denton, Texas

Date

  • Creation: 2009-08

Language

  • English

Description

  • Content Description: This study engaged in pushing the current political limitations created by the political impasse of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, by imagining new possibilities for radical political change, agency, and subjectivity for both the international activists volunteering with the International Solidarity Movement as well as Palestinians enduring the brutality of life under occupation. The role of the witness and testimony is brought to bear on activism and rhetoric the social movement ISM in Palestine. Approaches the past studies of the rhetoric of social movements arguing that rhetorical studies often disassociated 'social' from social movements, rendering invisible questions of the social and subjectivity from their frames for evaluation. Using the testimonies of these witnesses, Palestinians and activists, as the rhetorical production of the social movement, this study provides an effort to put the social body back into rhetorical studies of social movements. The relationships of subjectivity and desubjectification, as well as, possession of subjects by agency and the role of the witness with each of these is discussed in terms of Palestinian and activist potential for subjectification and desubjectifiation.

Subject

  • Keyword: Social movement
  • Keyword: testimony
  • Keyword: Palestine
  • Keyword: witness
  • Keyword: subjectivity
  • Keyword: rhetoric
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: International Solidarity Movement.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Arab-Israeli conflict -- 1993- -- Peace.
  • Library of Congress Subject Headings: Peace movements -- Israel.

Collection

  • Name: UNT Theses and Dissertations
    Code: UNTETD

Institution

  • Name: UNT Libraries
    Code: UNT

Rights

  • Rights Access: public
  • Rights License: copyright
  • Rights Holder: Wachsmann, Emily Brook
  • Rights Statement: Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.

Resource Type

  • Thesis or Dissertation

Format

  • Text

Identifier

  • OCLC: 599730476
  • UNT Catalog No.: b3825113
  • Archival Resource Key: ark:/67531/metadc12211

Degree

  • Degree Name: Master of Arts
  • Degree Level: Master's
  • Degree Discipline: Communication Studies
  • Academic Department: Department of Communication Studies
  • Degree Grantor: University of North Texas

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