Entertainment‐education: dilemmas of Israeli creators of theatre about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in promoting peace

Gesser‐Edelsburg, Anat

doi:10.1080/17400201.2011.553379

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“…In recent years, scholars have started to study the power of story with research exploring narrative persuasion and entertainment-education (Appel, 2011;Gesser-Edelsburg, 2011;Gesser-Edelsburg & Endevelt, 2011;Green & Brock, 2000;Igartua & Barrios, 2012). Stories are a powerful source of persuasion.…”

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Setting the Stage for Social Change: Using Live Theater to Dispel Myths About Intimate Partner Violence

Dill‐Shackleford

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Scharrer

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Journal of Health Communication

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Research has demonstrated the ability of fictional narratives to educate about social and health issues. Although some entertainment-education efforts have used live theater as a mechanism for social change, very few use social science methods to demonstrate exposure effects. This project used live theater to increase understanding and knowledge about intimate partner violence, a pervasive and costly social and health problem. Audiences watched either a play about abusive relationships-emphasizing psychological abuse and the role of coercion and control-or a control play. Compared with controls, those who watched the abuse play were more knowledgeable and less accepting of myths about abusive relationships in a way that mirrored play content. Although both plays were highly transporting, transportation did not explain a significant amount of variance in the attitudes toward intimate partner violence. These results provide rare evidence for theater as a tool for social change.

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Setting the Stage for Social Change: Using Live Theater to Dispel Myths About Intimate Partner Violence

Dill‐Shackleford

Green

Scharrer

et al. 2015

Journal of Health Communication

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“…In such drama, performative space is both suspended and subverted, to allow for alternative meanings and potential transformation because of the insistence on multiple voices and a refusal to accept dominant and totalising discourses of the Other, engaging their audience in critical thinking about the conflict and Jewish–Palestinian relations. Gesser‐Edelsburg (2011), for example, highlights the important role that Israeli theatre that deals with the conflict can play in creating social change and peace education, through so‐called ‘edutainment’, as well as the challenges of creating such potentially radical theatre aimed at changing people’s perceptions. Ultimately, he feels that theatre must do more to give audiences the tools with which to create changes.…”

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“…Ultimately, he feels that theatre must do more to give audiences the tools with which to create changes. However, others such as Urian (2004, cited in Gesser‐Edelsburg 2011), Fenigstein (2007) and Walsh et al . (2007) stress that performances can help audiences critique and contest what they see and experience and this can then translate into socio‐political change.…”

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Creating geographies of hope through film: performing space in Palestine‐Israel

Mavroudi

2012

Trans Inst British Geog

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This paper explores the value and role of critical notions of space in the current impasse in Palestine‐Israel through a case study on two films and their creative use of space. The main aim of the paper is to illustrate that it is useful for geographers to use analyses of performance in order to theorise space in more hopeful ways, particularly in areas of conflict, by stressing the importance of space as open‐ended and performative. Through a discussion of two films, one by Elia Suleiman and the other by Michel Khleifi and Eyal Sivan, the paper argues that space, if imagined as dynamic, in‐between and potentially connecting Palestinians and Israelis, can be transformative and have a positive role to play in interrogating us/them relationships, power inequalities and Othering in the region. The paper highlights the value of using third space and performance to help create a spatial politics of affect, which may in turn lead to changing perceptions of the Other in conflict regions. Therefore, the paper makes a contribution, not only to the geographical literature on how space is appropriated and constructed in Palestine‐Israel, but also to geographical work on hope, film and performance.

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Enhancing the persuasive influence of entertainment-education events: rhetorical and aesthetic strategies for constructing narratives

Gesser‐Edelsburg

Singhal²

2013

Critical Arts

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Entertainment‐education: dilemmas of Israeli creators of theatre about the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in promoting peace

Cited by 6 publications

References 29 publications

Setting the Stage for Social Change: Using Live Theater to Dispel Myths About Intimate Partner Violence

Setting the Stage for Social Change: Using Live Theater to Dispel Myths About Intimate Partner Violence

Creating geographies of hope through film: performing space in Palestine‐Israel

Enhancing the persuasive influence of entertainment-education events: rhetorical and aesthetic strategies for constructing narratives

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