Abstract
The article examines how Israeli Palestinian and Jewish middle-class mothers mediate military conflict to young children, through silence and talk. This mediation is underpinned by dissonance between the mandate to protect children from the adult world and to ready them for it, and between the idea of children as individuals and conflict as collective engagement. The article explores the discourses and practices used for managing this twofold dissonance, including differences in the privilege of silence for Palestinian and Jewish mothers.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 369-382 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | Childhood |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1 Aug 2020 |
Bibliographical note
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Keywords
- Israeli–Palestinian
- middle class
- military conflict
- mothering
- silence
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Developmental and Educational Psychology