Souvenirs of conquest: Israeli occupations as tourist events
Abstract
It is perhaps self-evident to suggest that military conquest shares something with
tourism because both involve encounters with "strange" landscapes and people. Thus
it may not surprise that the former sometimes borrows rhetorical strategies from the
latter - strategies for rendering the strange familiar or for translating threatening
images into benign ones. There have been numerous studies of this history of borrowing.
Scholars have considered how scenes of battle draw tourist crowds, how soldiers' ways
of seeing can resemble those of leisure travelers, how televised wars have been visually
structured as tourist events (e.g., the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq), and how the spoils
of war can function as a body of souvenirs. These lines of inquiry expand our understanding
of tourism as a field of cultural practices and help us to rethink the parameters
of militarism and warfare by suggesting ways they are entangled with everyday leisure
practices. © 2008 Cambridge University Press.
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10.1017/S0020743808081531Publication Info
Stein, RL (2008). Souvenirs of conquest: Israeli occupations as tourist events. International Journal of Middle East Studies, 40(4). pp. 647-669. 10.1017/S0020743808081531. Retrieved from https://hdl.handle.net/10161/6691.This is constructed from limited available data and may be imprecise. To cite this
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Rebecca L. Stein
Professor of Cultural Anthropology
My research studies linkages between cultural and political processes in Israel in
relation to its military occupation and the history of Palestinian dispossession.
I am the author of Screen Shots: State Violence on Camera in Israel and Palestine (Stanford
University Press, 2021) on the politics of military occupation in the age of the global
smartphone camera; <a href="http://www.sup.org/b

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