Faculty and Staff - Politics and Communication (B.A)

Aya Shoshan is a lecturer in the Department of Politics and Communication at Hadassah Academic College and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University. Her research focuses on social movements and struggles for social and political change around the world. Shoshan served as a visiting scholar in University of California, Irvine. She completed her MA and PhD in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben Gurion University, and her BA in Ethics, Politics, and Economics at Yale University.

Dr. Carmit Wiesslitz, Ph.D. is lecturer in the Department of Politics and Communications at Hadassah Academic College, Israel. Her research interests are: the relationships between civil society, democracy and ICTs'; Internet and social change; alternative media; digital labor; women activists and the Internet; and politics in the digital age. Dr. Wiesslitz has recently published her book: Internet Democracy and Social Change: The Case of Israel (2019) that was published by Lexington books. Dr. Wiesslitz is a graduate of NYU's Steinhardt M.A. program in Media, Culture and Communication and completed her Ph.D. at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel.

Research Areas

civil society, democracy and ICTs'; Internet and social change; alternative media; digital labor; women activists and the Internet; and politics in the digital age.

Prof. Dalia Gavriely-Nuri received her LL.B from the Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and her M.A. (Summa Cum Laude) from the Security Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. She received her Ph.D. from the Cultural Studies Department at Tel Aviv University. 

Prof. Gavriely-Nuri joined the Politics & Communication Department at Hadassah Academic College since its establishment in 2011. 

Prof. Gavriely-Nuri developed a theoretical approach in discourse studies, CCDA – A Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. This approach aims at exposing the cultural codes embedded in discourse, which contribute to reproducing abuses of social power. 

Her book, Israeli Peace Discourse (John Benjamins, 2015) was published in 2015. 

Contact

daliaga@jmc.ac.il

List of publications

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 Publications Books

• Friedman E. and Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2018). Israeli Discourse and the West Bank: Dialectics of Normalization and Estrangement. London and New York, Routledge.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2017). Tel Aviv was also an Arab village. New York, Israel Academic Press (In Hebrew).

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2015). Israeli Peace Discourse: A Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Amsterdam and London: John Benjamins.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2015). Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War. Israel Academic Press (in Hebrew, translated from the English version).

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2014). Israeli Culture on the Road to the Yom Kippur War. Lexington Books. Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2013). The Normalization of War in the Israeli Discourse. Lexington Books. Rowman & Littlefield Education, Lanham, Maryland.

• Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). ‘Peace’ In Israeli Political Discourse. The Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research, Tel Aviv University.

Publications in refereed journals

1. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Friedman E. (2018). Israeli Normalization Discourse Leading to the Yom Kippur War. Israel Studies Review.

2. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2016). The Outbreak of Peace in Israeli Children's Periodicals, 1977–1979. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 11(2): 214-228. 

3. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2014). Collective Memory as a Metaphor. Memory Studies 7 (1): 46-60.

4. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2014). Saying 'Peace', Going to 'War' - Peace in the Service of the Israeli Just-War Rhetoric. Critical Discourse Studies 11 (1):1-18. IF=0.9.

5. Lachover, E. and Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2013). Israeli Stamps 1948-2010: Between Nationalism and Cosmopolitanism. Israel Affairs 19 (2): 321-337.

6. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). Cultural Codes and Military Ethics –The Israeli Leadership and the POWs in 1973 War. Journal of Multicultural Discourses 7 (3): 213-226.

7. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). War-Normalizing Dialogue (WND) in Dialogue in Politics, Lawrence N. Berlin and Anita Fetzer (Eds.). Amsterdam: John Benjamins (in the series: Dialogue Studies), 221-241.

8. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2012). Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis. Critical Discourse Studies 9 (1): 77-85.

9. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Lachover, E. (2012). Reframing the Past as a Cosmopolitan Memory - Obituaries in the Israeli Daily Haaretz. Communication Theory 22: 48–65.

10. Lachover, E. and Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2011). Requiem to Nationalism? Shaping a collective Israeli identity through obituaries. Global Media: Mediterranean Edition 6(1): 24-39.

11. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010). The Idiosyncratic Language of Israeli 'Peace' - A Cultural Approach to Critical Discourse Analysis (CCDA). Discourse and Society 21 (5): 1-21.

12. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010). Rainbow, Snow, and the Poplar's Song: The 'Annihilative Naming' of Israeli Military Practices. Armed Forces and Society 36 (5): 825-846.

13. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010). If Both Opponents 'Extend Hands in Peace' Why Don’t They Meet? - Mythic Metaphors and Cultural Codes in the Israeli Peace Discourse. Journal of Language and Politics 9 (3) 449-468. (Republished in: Wodak, R. (2013). Critical Discourse Analysis. London: Sage Publications).

14. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Balas, T. (2010). 'Annihilating Framing': How Israeli Television Framed Wounded Soldiers during the Second Lebanon War (2006). Journalism 11(4): 409-423. 

15. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2009) 'It is not the Heroes Who Need this, but the Nation' - The Latent Power of Military Decorations in Israel, 1948-2005. Journal of Power 2 (3): 403-421. 

16. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2009) Friendly Fire: War-Normalizing Metaphors in the Israeli Political Discourse. Journal of Peace Education 6 (2): 153–169.

17. Gavriely-Nuri, D. Lahav, H. and Topol, N. (2008). Women's Representation in the Israeli Press during the Yom Kippur War (1973). Global Media: Mediterranean Edition 3 (1) (Online journal).

18. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2007). The Social Construction of Jerusalem of Gold as an Unofficial Anthem, Israel Studies 12 (2): 104-120. 

19. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2008) 'Saying ‘War’, Thinking ‘Victory’-The Mythmaking Surrounding Israel's 1967 Victory' Israel Studies 15 (1): 95-114.

20. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2008) The ‘Metaphorical Annihilation’ of the Second Lebanon War (2006) from the Israeli Political Discourse'. Discourse and Society 19 (1): 5-20. IF=1.4

21. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2006) Israel’s Cultural Code of Captivity and the Personal Stories of Yom Kippur War POWs. Armed Forces and Society 33: 94-105.

In Hebrew

22. Gavriely-Nuri (2016). The normalization of the territories’ occupation: The birth of the Israeli discourse 1967. Israel Studies in Language and Society 9(1-2):71-97. 

23. Gavriely-Nuri, D. and Topol, N. (2012). 'You Can’t Cross a Chasm in Two Small Jumps'- On the Absence of Reconciliation Processes in Herzl's Altneuland. Teuda 24: 174-191. (Tel Aviv University).

24. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2010) 'Peace will Triumph'- the 'Semantic Blurring' between Peace and War in the Israeli Political Discourse. Israel Studies in Language and Society 3 (2): 166-179.

25. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2009). 'Appropriated Militarism – The Case Study of Jerusalem of Gold. Politika 19:41-60.

26. (2010) The Displacement of the Sycamore from Holon Interchange” Te’oria U'vikoret 36:255-261.

27. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2008) POWs of Israeli Culture 1948-2006, Politika 18: 173-193.

28. Gavriely-Nuri, D. (2007) The Pretty War - Representations of War in Israeli Culture 1967-1973, Tarbut Demokratit 11: 51-76 [Hebrew and English].

Research Areas

Critical Discourse Analysis, Peace and War discourse

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