http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification 720 Recent ucsclibrary_oabooks items https://escholarship.org/uc/ucsclibrary_oabooks/rss Recent eScholarship items from UC Libraries-Supported Open Access Monographs Sun, 28 Jun 2026 16:28:51 +0000 Narrative and the Politics of Identity: The Cultural Psychology of Israeli and Palestinian Youth https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jw7s62s <p>Since the late 19th century, Jews and Arabs have been locked in an intractable battle for national recognition in a land of tremendous historical and geopolitical significance. While historians and political scientists have long analyzed the dynamics of this bitter conflict, rarely has an archaeology of the mind of those who reside within the matrix of conflict been attempted. This book not only offers a psychological analysis of the consequences of conflict for the psyche, it develops an innovative, compelling, and cross-disciplinary argument about the mutual constitution of culture and mind through the process of life-story construction. But the book pushes boundaries further through an analysis of two peace education programs designed to fundamentally alter the nature of young Israeli and Palestinian life stories. This book argues that these popular interventions, rooted in the idea of prejudice reduction through contact and the cultivation of “cosmopolitan” identities,... https://escholarship.org/uc/item/1jw7s62s Wed, 1 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000 Hammack, Phillip L