Souvenirs of Conquest

Israeli Occupations as Tourist Events

Bibliographic Data

ID8965409
AuthorsRebecca L Stein (0000-0002-2360-7337, corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume40
Issue4
Pages669b-669b
Publication date2008-11-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743808081956
OpenAlexW4249487467
LanguageEN
Citations received22
References cited27

This paper studies the intersections between military occupation and tourism in contemporary Israel. Focusing on two key moments of Israeli military engagement—the 1967 war and subsequent Israeli military occupation and the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon—the paper considers the ways that mainstream Israeli newspapers represented the conquest and/or incursion to Israeli publics through stories about Israeli tourism, consumption, and pleasure in the occupied territories in question. Drawing on postcolonial scholarship on colonial travel, I argue that these tourism stories can be read as “anticonquest narratives” that obscure the violence of the occupation by recasting it as a leisure opportunity. Both cases have been largely overlooked within the scholarly writing on Israel, and both expand our scholarly accounts of Israeli militarism by considering the quotidian, cultural avenues by which military projects have been enabled and sustained

Aesthetics · Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Battle · Colonialism · CONQUEST · Consumption (sociology · Genealogy · Literature · Mainstream · Media studies · Militarism · Militarization · Narrative · Pleasure · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rhetorical question · Scholarship · Social science · Sociology · Surprise · Tourism · Archaeological Research and Protection · Colonial History and Postcolonial Studies · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Gender Studies · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Maritime Security and History · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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