Overview
- 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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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.Similar content being viewed by others
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Empathy and the Finding of Empathic Spaces
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The War in Iraq and the Empathic Spaces of Elsewhere
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Book Title: Navigating War, Dissent and Empathy in Arab/U.S Relations
Book Subtitle: Seeing Our Others in Darkened Spaces
Authors: Osman Latiff
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-76747-1
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-76746-4Published: 29 June 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-76747-1Published: 28 June 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 160
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
Topics: Media Sociology, International Relations, Dispute Resolution, Mediation, Arbitration, Social Structure, Social Inequality