Travelling Zion

Hiking and Settler-Nationalism in Pre - 1948 Palestine

Datos Bibliográficos

ID3250772
AutoresRebecca L Stein (0000-0002-2360-7337, Duke University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2009
Volumen11
Número3
Páginas334-351
Fecha de publicación2009-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaInterventions (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1369-801X • E-ISSN: 1469-929X
EditorialInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13698010903255569
OpenAlexW2071014449
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas18
Referencias citadas45

This essay considers the political import of the hike or walk (ha-tiyul; plural, tiyulim) among Jewish settlers in Palestine during the first decades of the twentieth century. Situating this travelling practice within the broader Zionist discourse of which it was a part, I will suggest that the tiyulim conducted by Jewish settlers were important technologies of settler nation-making which helped to rewrite Arab Palestine as a Jewish geography. Drawing on postcolonial arguments about imperial travel, this essay presents both a condensed history of such travelling practices and a close reading of some of the travelogues they spawned. I focus on two divergent itineraries: (a) accounts of travel within the borders of the Land of Israel (Eretz Yisrael) replete with classic colonial tropes of conquest, the empty landscape, and Palestinian-Arab culture qua ethnographic object; and (b) accounts of Jewish travel to neighbouring Arab countries (Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon) from which colonial tropes are frequently absent. I suggest that these postcolonial readings of Zionist travel and travelogues advance the scholarship on Zionist coloniality by suggesting the role of everyday culture within the settler-national project

Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Ethnography · Judaism · Literature · Palestine · Plural · Political science · Politics · Scholarship · Travel writing · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society · Philosophy