Passing as a tourist: Exploring the everyday urban geopolitics of tourism |
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Institution: | 1. Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, Climate Change and Risk Programme, Solna, 16970, Sweden;2. Linköping University, Department of Thematic Studies - Environmental Change, Linköping, 58183, Sweden |
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Abstract: | This paper presents a case study of territorial boundary transgression and intergroup encounters mediated by tourism in a volatile and contested urban space. I present the notion of ‘passing as a tourist’ as a prism to investigate the nexus between performative tourism and everyday urban geopolitics. Situated in East Jerusalem's core geographies of colonization and political violence, this paper uses archival news material and a textual analysis of primary questionnaire data to critically examine how Jewish Israeli Jerusalemites visiting the Muslim Quarter in the Old City negotiate encounters in a conflicted space. The study reveals how the performative dimensions of ‘tourism’ in a context of polarized ethnonational division expose the role of embodied, everyday geopolitics in the production of urban spaces of tourism. |
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Keywords: | Tourism geopolitics Performative tourism Urban geopolitics Contested cities Israeli-Palestinian conflict Jerusalem |
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