Defiant Discourse: Speech and Action in Grassroots Activism
Preliminaries: Vignettes from the Field“Speaking is action, too”“But we don’t just talk, we also do things”“We do things that are meaningful to us”"It won’t stop until we talk”Life as a FieldtripWords and Deeds In Grassroots ActivismActivism as a Discursive FormationSocial Movement Action RepertoiresAnalytical PerspectivePlan of the BookNotesReferencesContextualizing the StudyLanguage Ideology in Israeli Speech CultureDefiant Discourse as a Key Scenario in Israeli CultureDefiant Speakers in the Israeli Public SphereStraight Talk as Negative ParrhesiaSemantics and Politics in the Israeli Occupation DebateExploring Israeli Anti-Occupation ActivismConcluding RemarksNotesReferencesProclaiming DissentBetween the Personal and the PoliticalThe Double Gesture of DissentStance-Taking in Draft Resisters’ Public LettersTextualizing Dissent: Story of a GenreConcluding RemarksNotesReferencesWitnessingWitnessing Organizations as Agents of ParrhesiaBreaking the Silence as a Witnessing OrganizationBreaking the Silence Flesh-WitnessingMoral Shock NarrativesConcluding RemarksNotesReferencesAccounting for DissentAccounting PracticesMainstream reception of Breaking the SilenceMoving Into ExplicitnessSoldier-Witnesses’ Meta-Discursive AccountsFrom the Rhetoric of Presence to ArgumentConcluding RemarksNotesReferencesBetween the Local and the GlobalThe Speech-Action NexusNotesReferences
