#12060. Passing as a tourist: Exploring the everyday urban geopolitics of tourism

August 2026publication date
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Abstract:
This paper is a case study of territorial boundary transgression and intergroup encounters mediated by tourism in a volatile and contested urban space. The notion of ‘passing as a tourist’ investigates the nexus between performative tourism and everyday urban geopolitics. This paper relies on archival news material and a textual analysis of the questionnaire data to 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 everyday geopolitics in tourism.
Keywords:
Contested cities; Israeli-Palestinian conflict; Jerusalem; Performative tourism; Tourism geopolitics; Urban geopolitics

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