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This chapter provides a general, comprehensive introduction to the entire book. It includes an overview of the theme of the book and its scope while outlining the main questions and the methodology used. The chapter also introduces the case studies and provides a synopsis of the chapters to follow.
Chapter 7 is one of three to describe controlled multi-sited ethnographies the author conducted to reverse-path trace the noise that obfuscated the Sesame Street interventions’ effects and impacts. The ethnographies link the children to their specific communities, looking at how glocalization of interstate systemic forces socialized them and how their everyday lives were reshaped by their respective conflict zones, altering their readings of the text—key to understanding their Palestinian, Jewish Israeli, and Arab/Palestinian Israeli cultures-in-the-making. They also shed light on the children’s dialogical critical intra- and cross-cultural mundane conflict zone experiences and perspectives. A detailed layout describes the lives of the Palestinian audience members, residents of the stateless nation village of East Barta’a—how they are perceived by Jewish Israelis seeking security, Arab/Palestinian Israelis seeking equality, and as they see themselves, seeking justice, as an island cut off from the rest of Palestine/the PA by a “wall” and gate to the east and Israel proper to the west. At age 5, they had already become acculturated to their ethnopolitical grouping’s interpretation of conflict zones structures. They symbolically transferred the meaning of “Jew” into an “army of infidels,” preventing them from achieving independence, “correcting” the imbalance they perceived that could not accommodate their interpersonal contact with Israeli soldiers, with Sesame Street’s encoding of civilian and good-natured “Jews.” They normalized the conflict, adopting protest play patterns and explained that the only resolution is “converting Jews to Islam,” eliminating the other party to “the conflict.”
The post-Oslo period in which this study is situated refers both to the buoyancy of a potential reconciliation in the immediate wake of the 1993 Oslo Peace Accords and the subsequent demise of a viable two-state solution. As evidenced in this chapter, perceptions of the formulation of the Oslo Accords and the reasons for the agreement’s key successes and failures remain a subject of narrative dissent. Rather than provide the reconciliatory framework and confidence-building measures to address past grievances, as was intended through the interim nature of the 1993 agreement, the post-Oslo period therefore witnessed an ongoing irreconcilability of key narratives. This chapter offers both a holistic understanding of the political and societal impact of these historic accords and an overview of the key events that were influenced by – and affected – subsequent implementation and interpretations of the Oslo peace agreements. The events and societal trends highlighted in this chapter do not provide an exhaustive analysis of Israeli-Jewish or Palestinian politics in the post-Oslo era; however, they do seek to render formative insights into the societal underpinnings that explain the rise and persistence of exclusionary identity politics that form the main interest of this work.
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