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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kaposi, D

Titel

Violence and Understanding in Gaza : The British Broadsheets' Coverage of the War [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2014

Ort / Verlag

London : Palgrave Macmillan UK

Erscheinungsjahr

2014

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Cover; Half-Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of Tables; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Violence and Understanding in the Armed Conflict of Gaza; Introduction; Violence: the chronicle of the armed conflict; Responsibility: investigations in the wake of the conflict; Understanding: the British media and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Chapters to come; 2 Method of the Analysis and General Characteristics of the Newspapers; Introduction; Construction of the sample; Quantitative analysis; General characteristics of the broadsheets' coverage; Discussion and the way forward
• 3 Action and Death in WarIntroduction; Fatalities; Action in war; Discussion; 4 Engagements with History; Introduction; Historical context; Discussion; 5 Engagements with Criticism; Introduction; Quantitative analysis of content; Interpretation of (lack) of content: the fusion of perspectives; Discussion; 6 Engagements with Antisemitism; Introduction; The fact of antisemitic incidents; Antisemitism as dilemmatic: the social judgment of calling something/someone antisemitic; Discussion; 7 War - Purity of Arms and Souls in the Conservative Press; Introduction; The right to launch the war
• Being right in launching the warThe right conduct of war; Discussion; 8 War - Purity of Arms and Souls in the Liberal Press; Introduction; War or negotiations; Hamas and rockets; Israel and power; Discussion; 9 Conclusion: Beyond Good and Evil; Overview and summary; The world is a very narrow bridge ...; ... but we must not fear; Appendix - Conservative and Liberal Editorials; Notes; Sources; Index
• Violence and Understanding in Gaza is the first comprehensive investigation of the British broadsheets' coverage of the Gaza War. Written in accessible language and engaging style, it critiques the newspapers' output, which it is argued replicates the black and white logic of war instead of focusing on negotiations and peace.
• English