Not just a soccer game : colonialism and conflict among Palestinians in Israel / Magid Shihade.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shihade, Magid.

Series:

Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution.

Syracuse studies on peace and conflict resolution

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Israel.

Violence.

Palestinian Arabs--Israel.

Palestinian Arabs.

Violence in sports.

Sports and state.

Sports and state--Israel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (204 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

On April 11, 1981, two neighboring Palestinian Arab towns competed in a soccer match. Kafr Yassif had a predominantly Christian population, and Julis was a predominantly Druze town. When a fight broke out between fans, the violence quickly escalated, leaving a teenager from each town dead. In the days that followed the game, a group from Julis retaliated with attacks on the residents of Kafr Yassif. Shihade experienced that soccer match and the ensuing violence firsthand, leaving him plagued by questions about why the Israeli authorities did not do more to stop the violence and what led to the conflict between these two neighboring Arab towns. Drawing on interviews, council archives, and media reports, Shihade explores the incident and subsequent attack on Kafr Yassif in the context of prevailing theories of ethnic and communal conflict. He also discusses the policies of the Israeli state toward its Arab citizens. Countering Orientalist emphases on Arab and Islamic cultures as inherently unruly and sectarian, Shihade challenges existing theories of communal violence, highlighting the significance of colonialism's legacy, modernity, and state structures. In addition, he breaks new ground by documenting and analyzing the use of a traditional Arab conflict resolution method, sulha, which has received little sustained attention from scholars in the West. Shihade opens the toolkits of anthropology, history, political science, and studies of ethnic and communal conflict with the goals of exposing the impact of state policies on minority groups and encouraging humane remedial principles regarding states and society.

Contents:

Introduction : a soccer game turns violent

Violent encounters under the eyes of state authorities

Explaining conflict and violence : a theoretical framework

Anatomy of communities : tradition and history

Anatomy of the state : modernity and structure

Conclusion : violence, modernity and culture revisited.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780815651116

0815651112

OCLC:

758823370