Holidays in the danger zone
Subtitle: entanglements of war and tourism
By: Debbie Lisle
Series: Critical war studies series; Critical war studies
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 394
ISBN-13: 9780816698554; 9780816698561
Subjects: War and society; Geopolitics; Dark tourism; Tourism; Political aspects
Description: "Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday entanglements between two seemingly opposed worlds warfare and tourism. Debbie Lisle shows how a tourist sensibility shapes the behavior of soldiers in war especially the experiences of Western military forces in exotic settings. This includes not only R & R but also how battlefields themselves become landscapes of leisure and tourism. It further explores how a military sensibility shapes the development of tourism in the postwar context, from Dark Tourism (engaging with displays of conflict and atrocity) to exhibitions of conflict in museums and at memorial sites, as well as advertising, film, journals, guidebooks, blogs, and photography. Focused on how war and tourism reinforce prevailing modes of domination, Holidays in the Danger Zone critically examines the long historical arc of the war-tourism nexus from nineteenth-century imperialism to World War I and World War II, from the Cold War to globalization and the War on Terror."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : entanglements of war and tourism; title: The double vision of empire : the Gordon Relief Campaign, 1884-85; title: Tours of duty, tours of pleasure : battlefield journeys and the rise of militourism, 1914-45; title: Bipolar travels : tourism and conflict at the edges of the cold war; title: Global interventions and the rise of dark tourism; title: Connecting tourism and terrorism : milblogs, soft targets, and the securitization of travel; title: Conclusion : touring otherwise : the ethical possibilities of entanglement.