Itineraries in Conflict - Israelis, Palestinians, and the Political Lives of Tourism

Informationen zum Autor Rebecca L. Stein Klappentext An anthropological study of the relationship of tourism to Israeli identities, politics, and nation-making. Zusammenfassung Argues that through tourist practices - acts of cultural consumption! routes and imaginary voyages to neighboring Arab countries! and culinary desires - Israeli citizens negotiate Israel's place in the contemporary Middle East. This work analyzes the meanings that Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel have attached to tourist cultures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Itineraries and Intelligibilities 1 1. Regional Routes: Israeli Tourists in the New Middle East 19 2. Consumer Coexistence: Enjoying the Arabas Within 45 3. Scalar Fantasies: The Israeli State and the Production of Palestinian Space 71 4. Culinary Patriotism: Ethnic Restaurants and Melancholic Citizenship 97 5. Of Cafes and Terror 129 Postscript: Oslo's Ghosts 149 Notes 153 Bibliography 179 Index 205

Product details

• Authors: Rebecca L. Stein, Stein, Rebecca L Stein, Rebecca L. Stein
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 26.08.2008
• EAN: 9780822342519
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-4251-9
• No. of pages: 232
• Dimensions: 159 mm x 235 mm x 19 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Palästina, Israel, Einzel- und Großhandel