Examining Ideology, Asymmetry, and Ethnonationalism in the 2023 Israel-Gaza Crisis
This research note provides an in-depth analysis of the complex interplay between Zionism, Jewish identity, power dynamics, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces the emergence of Zionism in the late 19th century, examining how early Zionist
The Israeli Nationality Law – A Blueprint for a 21st Century Settler Colonial State
The author argues that the ‘New’ Israeli Nationality Law is, despite its name, a natural, almost inevitable, product of the Zionist project in Palestine. Besides representing Zionist ideology, the law is part of a long-term attempt by the Israeli
Deepening apartheid: The political geography of colonizing Israel/Palestine
The paper analyzes the regime in Israel/Palestine using a political geographical perspective. It demonstrates how a combination of colonial, national, capitalist and liberal forces have put in train a process of “deepening apartheid” in the entire
Introduction, preface, and chapter titles of: From the River to the Sea Palestine and Israel in the Shadow of "Peace", edited by M. Turner
“Fearless and just in time, From the River to the Sea traces the structural and conceptual impact of the now twenty-five-year-old process known as Oslo. It is an unstinting journey that takes the reader from the triumph of the extreme right inside
What were the causes and impacts of the 1948 Palestinian exodus and Jewish exodus from Arab countries, and what are the connections of the two exoduses to each other?
Imperial Theology, Colonization, Settler Colonialism, and the Struggle for Decolonization: A Review Essay
This review essay introduces two books by Mitri Raheb which ground the contemporary predicament of Palestine in its historical and structural context. Raheb challenges the uncritical historical, theological, and ethnographic narratives regarding
CIRCUMVENTING ISRAELI CONTROL: PALESTINIAN FURNITURE EXPORTS VIA ISRAELI SETTLEMENTS
West Bank exports to Israel have faced significant challenges due to the Israeli system of spatial control, aimed at controlling Palestinians and facilitating settler expansion throughout the West Bank. The routing of Palestinian commercial freight
PALESTINE/ISRAEL REVIEW: CARVING OUT A NEW INTELLECTUAL SPACE
Knowledge about Palestine/Israel has long been produced and recruited for multiple contradictory political struggles. The emergence of distinct, counterposed scholarly associations, centers, and publications for Palestine studies and Israel studies
Die grosse Rede des Timaios – ein Beispiel wahrer Rhetorik? - Zu Theorie und Praxis philosophischer Rhetorik in Platons Dialogen Gorgias, Phaidros und Timaios
2017 Rhetorik der Angst Technologie und Religion.pdf
The present paper combines Ecocriticism with the recent „Angstresearch“ in cultural sciences (Koch) and focuses on the powerful union of technology and religion in the rhetoric of „Angst“, as it is being unfolded / displayed in contemporary dystopian
I was asked by the editors, Michael Erler and Christian Tornau, to contribute the article 'Epos'; I concentrate on the speeches and the role of rhetorik in Epic poetry.
Rhetorik und Historiographie, in: Michael Erler, Christian Tornau (Hgg.): Handbuch antike Rhetorik, Berlin 2019, 627-653
This paper deals with the claim in recent literature that historiography was in antiquity a subgenre of rhetoric and that it therefore allowed, or even demanded , the extensive presence of fictional elements. The main representatives of such a view
Von Platon über Kant bis zu den Logischen Empiristen steht Philosophie in einem kritischen Verhältnis zur Rhetorik, der sie ein nicht an der Wahrheit, sondern an bloßer Überredung orientiertes Sprechen unterstellt. Gegen das rhetorische Sprechen
„Die Rhetorik in der philosophischen Hermeneutik“, in: in: Hetzel, Andreas / Posselt, Gerald (Hg.): Rhetorik und Philosophie. Handbücher zur Rhetorik. Berlin / Boston: de Gruyter [im Druck].
According to its self-conception, hermeneutics maintains a close relationship with the rhetorical tradition, thereby distancing itself from the demand – most present in occidental philosophy – of drawing a strict parting line against all rhetoric.
Linguistics and rhetoric. Points of contactRhetoric and linguistics have, to some extent, separate histories, traditions and research ranges. However, it is worthwhile to mention some reasons for which it is possible to perceive these disciplines as