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Debbie Lisle - Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism - 9780816698554 - V9780816698554
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Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism

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Description for Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism Hardback. BIC Classification: HBW; JHMC; JPSL; KNS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 151 x 224 x 30. Weight in Grams: 586.

Holidays in the Danger Zone exposes the mundane and everyday interactions 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 become landscapes of leisure and tourism. She 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, ... Read more

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.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
392
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816698554
SKU
V9780816698554
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1

About Debbie Lisle
Debbie Lisle is a reader in international relations in the School of Politics, International Studies, and Philosophy at Queen’s University Belfast. Her books include The Global Politics of Contemporary Travel Writing.

Reviews for Holidays in the Danger Zone: Entanglements of War and Tourism
"Postcards, museums, river steamers, friendly guide books, and sunbathers—Debbie Lisle shows here that each of these can be made to serve military objectives or to reinforce militarized, gendered, and racialized presumptions about this world and our alleged places in it. Holidays in the Danger Zone is sure to spark new conversations and fresh investigations."—Cynthia Enloe, author of Bananas, Beaches and ... Read more

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