Violence Archives | Contending Modernities

The Apocalypse is Human-Made: Playing with Fire from Al-Aqsa to Gaza

Atalia Omer
May 14, 2021May 14, 2021

The confluence of sacred times and spaces (national and religious) is explosive, and those pulling triggers and making decisions targeting religious celebrations may well be lighting the fuse.

Provincializing Theodicy

Series: Decolonizing Continental Philosophy of Religion

Anthony Paul Smith
September 29, 2020October 5, 2020

They could not figure out why the police would be so violent in the face of non-violent protesters. In searching for a justification for this unjustifiable violence of the police, the anchors were engaged in theodicy.

From “Shooting and Crying” to “Shooting and Singing”: Notes on the 2019 Eurovision in Israel.

Gil Hochberg
May 17, 2019May 17, 2019

The days of shooting and crying are over. Shooting continues, but crying has stopped. It has been replaced with laughter: hysterical, cynical, crude, perhaps even desperate laughter.

Border-Crossers: Interrogating Boundaries through Bodies

Series: Ansari Conference 2018

Lailatul Fitriyah
January 16, 2019August 23, 2019

What we can infer from this panel is that the political, racial, and religious markers which compose borders are also etched and negotiated on the bodies of the marginalized others as ‘border-crossers.’