Robert C. Rowland
Robert C. Rowland is a Professor of Communication at the University
of Kansas. He is the recipient of the 2003 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in
Rhetorical Criticism, the largest and most significant book
...
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David Frank
David Frank is the author of Creative Speaking and the
coauthor of Debating Values and The Lincoln-Douglas Debate. He
is the recipient of the 2003 Kohrs-Campbell Prize in Rhetorical
Criticism, the largest and most significant book manuscript award in
the field of rhetorical criticism, as coauthor of Shared
Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian
Symbol Use. He is a Professor of Communication at the University
of Oregon.
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Shared Land/Conflicting Identity
Trajectories of Israeli and Palestinian Symbol Use
Robert C. Rowland
David Frank
Winner of the 2003 Kohrs-Campbell Prize
in Rhetorical Criticism
"...highly recommended."- Choice Magazine
Shared Land/Conflicting Identity: Trajectories of Israeli and
Palestinian Symbol Use argues that rhetoric, ideology,
and myth have played key roles in influencing the development of the
100-year conflict between first the Zionist settlers and the current
Israeli people and the Palestinian residents in what is now Israel.
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is usually treated as an
issue of land and water. While these elements are the core of the
conflict, they are heavily influenced by the symbols used by both
peoples to describe, understand, and persuade each other.
The authors argue that symbolic practices deeply influenced the
Oslo Accords, and that the breakthrough in the peace process that
led to Oslo could not have occurred without a breakthrough in
communication styles.
Rowland and Frank develop four crucial ideas on social development:
the roles of rhetoric, ideology, and myth; the influence of
symbolic factors; specific symbolic factors that played a key role
in peace negotiations; and the identification and value of criteria
for evaluating symbolic practices in any society.
"...a clear, nuanced, balanced account of Zionism, the Palestine
intifada, the Oslo Accords, and other attempts at peace, and of
leaders such as Yitzhak Rabin, Ariel Sharon, Yassir Arafat, and
Haider Abdel Shafi...."- Choice Magazine
Rhetoric and Public Affairs Series
Bibliography, Notes, Index
416 pp., 6.00" x 9.00", 2002
Cloth, $74.95,
0-87013-635-6
978-0-87013-635-1
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