Routinization of the Israeli-Arab Conflict: The Perspective of Outsiders

Autor: Soli Vered, Daniel Bar-Tal
Rok vydání: 2014
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Zdroj: Israel Studies Review. 29
ISSN: 2159-0389
2159-0370
DOI: 10.3167/isr.2014.290104
Popis: This study explores the features of the routinization of the Israeli-Arab conflict in everyday life in Israel. Specifically, it examines how foreign students view this mechanism of the culture of conflict, compared to the point of view of Israeli students born into the day-to- day reality of a society that has been engaged in an intractable conflict for decades. Findings show that foreigners have perceived and identified various conflict-related routines that have been absorbed into the social and physical spaces of daily life in Israel, becoming unnoticeable to Israe- lis. This was the case particularly with various images and symbols of the conflict that saturate both public and private spaces, conflict-related infor - mal norms of behavior, and the central place that the conflict occupies in private interpersonal discourse. These results are discussed in relation to the functionalities of the routinization of the conflict and its implications.
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