Media Making As Peacemaking
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- ISBN 9781978844995
- Weight: 454g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 08 Sep 2026
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The horrific events of October 7 and the devastating war in Gaza have brought Israel/Palestine to the headlines once again. We have seen this all play out before: another ambitious peace plan, which secured a ceasefire, is imagined as the dawn of a new era of peace in the Middle East. But is it? Critiquing traditional state-centered approaches to peace, which usually highlight the work of diplomats and politicians, and which historically failed miserably in Israel/Palestine, Media Making as Peacemaking shifts our attention to the experiences of ordinary people. Investigating the idea of media encounters, this book shows how the collaboration of Palestinian and Jewish media practitioners and the popular texts they create together in television dramas, digital activism and mainstream journalism offer a new and exciting way to think about peace . A peace which does not maintain a repressive status quo, but seeks to deliver equality and justice to all people, Palestinians and Jews, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.
Yuval Katz is a lecturer in the Department of Communication and Media at Loughborough University in the United Kingdom.
