Hostels in Hostile Territory: Tourist Spaces of Transformative Dialogue in the Israeli-Palestinian Context

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Author(s): Jack Shepherd (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)and Daniel Laven (Mid Sweden University, Sweden)
Copyright: 2021
Pages: 23
Source title: Role and Impact of Tourism in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Jorge Tavares da Silva (GOVCOPP, University of Aveiro, Portugal), Zélia Breda (GOVCOPP, University of Aveiro, Portugal)and Fabio Carbone (Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations, Coventry University, UK & GOVCOPP, University of Aveiro, Portugal)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5053-3.ch012

Keywords: Business & Management / Business Science Reference / Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Management / Hospitality, Travel, and Tourism Management

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This chapter looks at the role youth hostels play in challenging some of the destructive narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian context, narratives revolving around Othering, and demonisation of the Other. To understand the role of hostels in this regard, the authors use the concept of transformative dialogue to demonstrate how hostels assist in the formation of partnerships between previously hostile groups, and also how hostels provide a tourism forum for self-expression and exposure to divergent narratives of space. The chapter is a comparative case study using qualitative data gathered at 14 hostels over a period of six years. The findings of the chapter stress the remarkable achievement of youth hostels in the region in challenging hegemonic discourses of separation and abjection, despite the enormous difficulty in doing so.

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