Connecting Tourism and Terrorism
Connecting Tourism and Terrorism
Milblogs, Soft Targets, and the Securitization of Travel
As new media technologies give occupying soldiers more scope to record their overseas adventures and disseminate them through the internet, modes of militarized global encounter have re-ordered familiar understandings of distance and difference. One consequence of the normalization of war after 9/11 has been a securitization of the tourism industry, bringing the serious questions of global violence more directly into leisured spaces like hotels, airports and tourist attractions.
Keywords: new media technologies, Internet, distance, difference, securitization of tourism, leisured spaces, global violence
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